(R)asmussen Poll--ME Gov--LePage (R) 35% (-10) Mitchell (D) 32% (+5) Cutler (I) 21%

[WI_DEM]

A month ago, Republican Paul LePage led Democrat Libby Mitchell by nearly 20 points in Maine's gubernatorial race. Now LePage's support has fallen to a new low, putting him in a near tie with Mitchell.

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.)

These numbers move the race from Solid GOP to a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Gubernatorial Scorecard.

In mid-September, LePage held a 45% to 27% lead over Mitchell. Later that month, LePage’s comments to reporters about President Obama and news of his family’s tax problems in Florida made headlines.

www.rasmussenreports.com

[spartan61]

1. LePage is a total jerk.

I think of him as Paladino lite. What's wrong with the people of Maine? How can he even be at 35%?

[flamingdem]

2. It's good old boy territory, no? nt

[Enthusiast]

3. Bush's base + a few %

of misguided independents = 35%.

[DemocracyInaction]

4. I'm a Mainer----see one big error

Cutler (I) is NOT getting 21%. He's struggling to hold on to 11% and slipping. Last poll (published Sunday in Portland Press Herald) Mitchell was less than one point behind LePage. I was polled by this same group on that very Sunday and the new results will be out in next Sunday's paper. Someone has a post here about Nate Silverman...he's using two week old data and has no access to the poll that will come out Sunday. (Even in the last one he talks about was the less than 1% difference...and he calls that only a 25% chance of Mitchell winning??????---that's stupid).