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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for a 3rd term within the U.S. Senate, has a double-digit lead over Republican challenger John Deaton within the Massachusetts Senate race, in keeping with a brand new poll.
On Thursday, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center released its Bay State Pollin keeping with which 58 percent of likely voters plan to vote for Warren in November, while 32 percent said they’d vote for Deaton.
“Incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren holds a comfortable lead over Republican candidate John Deaton in the race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Warren is only moderately popular in Massachusetts, while many people do not know Deaton,” the researchers wrote within the survey.
Deaton, 56, is a Bolton-based lawyer and former U.S. Marine. Originally from Detroit, Deaton studied at Eastern Michigan University and the New England School of Law in Boston. His campaign says he “takes a moderate approach to the U.S. Senate trial against Elizabeth Warren.”
The Bay State Poll, a part of the university's States of Opinion Project, also found that 92 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of independents support Warren, while 91 percent of Republicans support Deaton.
According to the poll, 46 percent of respondents said that they had a positive opinion of Warren, 35 percent said that they had a negative opinion of her and 18 percent were neutral.
However, only 1 / 4 of likely voters said that they had a positive opinion of Deaton, while 18 percent had an unfavorable opinion. Forty-two percent of respondents said they didn’t know enough about Deaton to form an opinion, and 15 percent said they were neutral.
Among voters supporting Vice President Kamala Harris within the upcoming presidential election, 86 percent support Warren, while 8 percent support Deaton. Among voters supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, 84 percent support Deaton, while 10 percent support Warren.
As for the statewide ballot questions, likely voters largely support Questions 1, 3, 4, and 5, while many are divided on Question 2, which might eliminate MCAS as a requirement for prime school graduation.
The poll relies on a survey of nearly 600 people between September 12 and 16 and has a margin of error of 4 percent.
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