SurveyUSA

New poll data from SurveyUSA provides more evidence to the school of thought that presumptive Republican presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is holding a large lead in the Bluegrass state.

Gelling with earlier results from Research 2000, the SurveyUSA poll shows McCain with a 55 to 37 percent lead over presumptive Democratic nominee and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).

Research 2000 put McCain up by 21 over Obama, according to data collected in late July.

Around the same time period, however, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Obama on the uptick and cutting McCain's lead to ten points, leaving some questions open about where the state stood.

SurveyUSA's data showing the 18 point lead for McCain is their latest from the firm on the state's presidential race since a June 12 poll showed McCain with a 53 to 41 percent lead.

The latest data - collected from August 9 to 11 - measures sentiment from 636 "likely voters" from across the state. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) is maintaining a double-digit lead over his rival in Kentucky's Senate race, Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville), according to a new poll from SurveyUSA.

A poll of 636 "likely voters" conducted from August 9 to August 11 shows McConnell with a 52 to 40 percent lead over Lunsford - a lead largely in line with other recent polls.

The new SurveyUSA numbers show a dramatic change in the race from the last poll conducted by the New Jersey-based firm, which gave McConnell just a four point lead in June, at 50 to 46 percent.

The number of respondents indicating they were "undecided" jumped from four to eight percent between the two polls.

In the first public poll in the race released since a surprising Rasmussen Reports measurement gave Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford a five point lead over incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, SurveyUSA is showing McConnell with a four point lead - a gap equal to the margin of error for the poll.

McConnell hits the 50 percent support mark in the new poll of 626 "likely" voters by the New Jersey-based firm. Lunsford trailed the incumbent, coming in with 46 percent.

Just four percent of respondents were "undecided."

The numbers offer a stark contrast to both the Rasmussen figures - giving Lunsford a 49 to 44 percent lead - and an internal McConnell campaign poll showing the Senate Majority Leader up 11 points, at 50 to 39 percent.

While the election is nearly five months away, a new SurveyUSA poll is showing former U.S. Rep Anne Northup (R-Louisville) seventeen points behind incumbent U.S. Rep John Yarmuth (D-Louisville).

The poll - commissioned by Louisville's WHAS television station - gives Yarmuth 57 percent support over the 40 percent garnered by the woman he defeated to take the seat in 2006.

In that 2006 race, Yarmuth beat then-incumbent Northup by just three points, 51 to 48 percent.

With exactly a week to go before Kentucky's primary election day, Democratic Senate candidate and Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford has a sizeable lead over the other six candidates in his bid to secure his party's nomination to take on incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisvile) in November according to two new polls.

A new poll by the New Jersey-based firm SurveyUSA finds Lunsford sitting on an eighteen point lead over his nearest competition, Louisville businessman Greg Fischer. Lunsford holds a 41 to 23 percent advantage over Fischer of the May 20 primary. A Lexington Herald-Leader poll released yesterday evening shows Lunsford up twenty points over Fischer, with a 43 to 23 percent lead.

New figures from the New Jersey-based polling outfit SurveyUSA show Bruce Lunsford still holding a sizeable lead in the Kentucky Democratic Senate primary while Senator Hillary Clinton maintains a huge margin over Senator Barack Obama in the Commonwealth.

As the attention of the nation turns now to the Bluegrass state for its May 20 primary, Senator Clinton's margin over Obama sits at 34 points, according to the latest SurveyUSA/WHAS poll of 595 "likely voters."

Clinton collected 62 percent support among respondents to Obama's 28 percent.

Lexington-based public relations firm Preston-Osborne will mark its twentieth year of experience in the polling business this year. In the last year, the firm has conducted statewide polls for both the 2007 gubernatorial race and the forthcoming Democratic Presidential primary while maintaining a full load of public relations work.

The firm's CEO and owner, Phil Osborne, recently spoke with PolitickerKY.com about the firm, polling in Kentucky, and the state's contentious Democratic Senate primary race.

Just two days after a new Democratic primary poll found Senator Hillary Clinton increasing her lead over Senator Barack Obama in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, she now appears to have closed to within points of Senator John McCain in a general election match-up.  read more »

SurveyUSA's latest polls find Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton with growing leads atop their respective races. Lunsford's lead in the seven-candidate Democratic Senate primary field grew 5 percent since the last poll by SurveyUSA. That poll gave Lunsford 42 percent support among 572 "likely" Democratic voters.

A new poll of 572 likely Democratic voters by SurveyUSA finds Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford significantly leading the rest of the Democratic field in the primary race for the U.S. Senate.