From Rasmussen:
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows LePage picking up 35% of the vote, while Mitchell draws support from 32%. Democrat-turned-independent Eliot Cutler now earns 21% of the vote. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and another six percent (6%) are undecided. (For survey question wording, click here…
In five surveys conducted since June, LePage, the mayor of Waterville, has earned 35% to 45% of the vote. Mitchell, president of the State Senate, has earned 27% to 36% of the vote in those same surveys. Cutler now receives his highest level of support yet, after failing to earn more than 16% in four previous surveys…
For Cutler, favorables total 53% and unfavorables 34%, showing a slight improvement from September. Fourteen percent (14%) have a Very Favorable impression of the independent candidate, while 12% have a Very Unfavorable impression.
Both LePage and Mitchell earn 65% support from voters in their own parties. Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, Cutler picks up 33%, LePage 29% and Mitchell 25%.
Michael R. Blood, AP Political Writer – 36 minutes ago
More than 70 of [TEA Party] candidates are on ballots from coast to coast, and nearly three dozen are locked in competitive House races, according to a state-by-state analysis by The Associated Press.
From the hundreds of conservative activists who took up the cause in races this year, these candidates — mostly Republicans — emerged to capture nominations and are running with the support of loosely organized tea party groups that are furious at the government.
Some of the candidates are political newcomers who have struggled to organize and raise money and have little chance of winning on Nov. 2.
In some states, tea party groups are divided over whether to even back candidates or become active in campaigns.
But about 35 candidates appear to be waging viable campaigns that have put them ahead or within striking distance of their opponents, according to the AP analysis.