Two polls show Mitch McConnell with a lead over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky U.S. Senate race.
A Rasmussen survey conducted last week shows McConnell with a 46-41 lead over Grimes among likely voters. In May, the incumbent Republican had a slightly larger, seven-percentage point lead. The two candidates were tied according to Rasmussen in January. The survey has a margin of error of plus-or-minus four percentage points.
Meantime, a new CNN poll has McConnell up four points over Grimes, which falls within the survey’s margin of error. Fifty-percent of poll respondents said they would support Sen. McConnell, with 46 percent backing Grimes. That survey also shows 16 percent of Democrats said they were either supporting or leading towards supporting McConnell.
Despite trailing in the polls overall, Grimes has big leads over McConnell in the state’s urban areas, including a 27-point-lead in the Louisville region.
