(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Jon Kyl could be re-elected as one of Arizona’s representatives to the United States Senate, according to two recent voting intention studies. In a poll by SurveyUSA released by KNPX-TV, 52 per cent of respondents in the Grand Canyon State would support the Republican incumbent, while 37 per cent would vote for Democratic challenger Jim Pederson.
(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Jon Kyl could be re-elected as one of Arizona’s representatives to the United States Senate, according to two recent voting intention studies. In a poll by SurveyUSA released by KNPX-TV, 52 per cent of respondents in the Grand Canyon State would support the Republican incumbent, while 37 per cent would vote for Democratic challenger Jim Pederson.
A study by Rasmussen Reports places Kyl in first place with 51 per cent, followed by Pederson with 35 per cent. Support for Kyl in both polls fell by five points, while Pederson gained four and two points respectively.
Kyl was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994, and earned a new six-year term in 2000, defeating three independent candidates with 79 per cent of all cast ballots. Kyl had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995.
Pederson co-founded the commercial development firm The Pederson Group, and acted as the Democratic Party’s chairman in Arizona from 2001 to 2005.
Yesterday, Kyl referred to the controversy over the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program, declaring, “This is nuts. We are in war. And we’ve got to collect intelligence on the enemy. And you can’t tell the enemy in advance how you’re going to do it. And discussing all of this stuff in public leads to that.”
The senatorial election is scheduled for Nov. 7.
Polling Data
a) Arizona will elect a United States senator in November. If the election for the United States Senate were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were Republican Jon Kyl and Democrat Jim Pederson, who would you vote for?
May 2006 | Feb. 2006 | |
Jon Kyl (R) | 52% | 57% |
Jim Pederson (D) | 37% | 33% |
Undecided | 10% | 10% |
Source: SurveyUSA / KPNX-TV
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 570 registered Arizona voters, conducted from May 5 to May 7, 2006. Margin of error is 4.2 per cent.
b) Election 2006 – Arizona Senate
Apr. 2006 | Mar. 2006 | Dec. 2005 | |
Jon Kyl (R) | 51% | 56% | 50% |
Jim Pederson (D) | 35% | 33% | 30% |
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 500 likely Arizona voters, conducted on Apr. 25, 2006. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.
