New poll in the IN Senate race’s GOP primary!
Done yesterday. Out today. It was commissioned by SC Senator Jim DeMint’s PAC…the Senate Conservatives Fund. Wenzel Strategies Research out of Columbus OH did the work. Here are the results:
Undecided 30%
Dan Coats 28%
John Hostettler 18%
Marlin Stutzman 18%
Richard Behney 3%
Don Bates Jr. 3%
The survey was of 801 like Republican primary voters…again all spoken to yesterday over the phone. The margin of error for this poll is plus/minus 3.43%.
REPORTER INTERPRETATION: Coats…the best known candidate is out in front outside the margin of error. But…and this is a huge qualifier…”Undecided/Not Sure” was ahead at the time of this poll…which was yesterday…5-days before primary day coming up on Tuesday, May 4th.
The poll is also commissioned by DeMint’s PAC and is solidly behind the Stutzman campaign. The Senate Conservatives Fund has reportedly poured in $200,000 into the Stutzman campaign (via internet donations) in the final two weeks of the primary contact.
There is a good argument to make that Stutzman is the candidate with the momentum now. The question is whether he can make up the gap in the last four-plus days of the campaign.
The undecideds apparently could throw this race is any direction.