Poll: Pennsylvania Democrats surging with double-digit leads

[workinclasszero]

BY TAL AXELROD - 08/30/18 01:21 PM EDT

Democratic incumbents running for reelection in Pennsylvania hold double-digit leads over their Republican opponents, according to a Franklin & Marshall College poll released Thursday.

Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) holds a comfortable 13-point lead among registered voters in the survey over Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), 47 to 34 percent. Nineteen percent of voters remain undecided.

Casey, a two-term senator, has a 41 percent approval rating, according to the poll. Barletta, meanwhile, is hurt by low name-recognition, with 53 percent of voters not knowing enough about him to give an opinion.

Pollsters also found that Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.) holds a 17-point lead over state Sen. Scott Wagner (R), 52 to 35 percent. Twelve percent of voters remain undecided in that race.

Wolf, who is running for his second term, has a 46 percent approval rating in the new survey. He too is aided by his opponent’s low name recognition, with 42 percent of registered voters not knowing enough about Wagner to give an opinion.

Both Democrats are also buoyed by President Trump’s low approval rating in the state, which stands at about 38 percent in the poll.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/404396-poll-pennsylvania-democrats-surging-with-double-digit-leads

[EddieA]

1. This site predicts a gain of 3 - 4 seats.

https://www.270towin.com/2018-house-election/states/pennsylvania

[BumRushDaShow]

8. That would be on top of the 5 we already have!

The split, based on registered voters, really should be 10 (D) - 8 (R) or given the geographic considerations, maybe 9 (D) - 9 (R).... But before the map redraw, it had been 13 (R) - 5 (D) due to the gerrymandering.

[PCIntern]

2. We are gonna fuck up the Rethugs in my state...

a bigger bunch of assholes you've never met in your life. I reat a bunch of them in my practice and can barely hold my disdain for them. To answer the obvious statement, I do a great job with them

[meow2u3]

3. We're going to take back Pennsylvania

Rethugs won't know what hit them. We're sick of their routine abuse of power!

[workinclasszero]

5. Go Pennsylvania dems!

[dalton99a]

4. Excellent. GOTV!

[bluestarone]

6. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Good!

It will probably narrow as we get closer since some of Drumpf's "base" is foaming at the mouth (in 2012, Casey won with 54% of the vote against a non-politico, and in 2014, Wolf won with 55% of the vote against incumbent Corbett, who was caught up in the Sandusky mess since he had been state AG at the time the abuse reports had happened).