Former GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) leads former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig (D-N.H.) by 4 proportion factors in New Hampshire’s gubernatorial race, in line with a brand new survey from the College of New Hampshire.
The survey exhibits 48 p.c of seemingly voters are throwing their help behind Ayotte and 44 p.c are backing Craig. In September, the survey confirmed Craig within the lead by one proportion level. Six p.c of voters are nonetheless undecided.
Whereas every candidate has extra help from their respective sides of the aisle, the survey experiences Ayotte getting extra split-ticket votes than Craig. Ayotte additionally leads Craig amongst unbiased respondents, with 51 p.c backing the previous senator in comparison with Craig’s 31 p.c. Fourteen p.c of independents stay undecided.
When it comes to favorability, 36 p.c of respondents have a positive view of Ayotte, 15 p.c have a impartial view and 45 p.c have an unfavorable view of the GOP candidate. In the meantime, 32 p.c of respondents have a positive view of Craig, 17 p.c have a impartial view and 40 p.c have an unfavorable view.
The candidates are within the race to exchange four-term Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) in one of many few aggressive governor races this 12 months. It’s presently the one gubernatorial race the Cook dinner Political Report charges as a “toss up.”
New Hampshire has been a blue state in each presidential election since 2004 and largely had Democratic representatives and senators in Congress for the previous 15 years. Nonetheless, Sununu was elected by more and more comfy margins, and the Republican has loved sturdy approval scores all through his tenure.
The College of New Hampshire survey was carried out from Oct. 29 to Nov. 3 amongst 2,887 adults, and the margin of error was 1.8 proportion factors.
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