Public Policy Polling has released results and while Toomey leads all democratic candidates, they are close enough that Toomey can be beat.
PPP’s new Pennsylvania Senate poll finds that Pat Toomey continues to have weak approval numbers, and leads his potential Democratic opponents by only 3 to 7 points.
Only 28% of voters approve of the job Toomey is doing to 43% who disapprove, with a lot (29%) having no opinion one way or another. Those numbers are consistent with where we’ve found him in our polling all year- he was at 30% approval in May and 28% approval in February when we polled the state. A big part of what drags down Toomey’s overall approval numbers is that he’s not very popular even with Republican voters- only 42% approve of him to 27% who disapprove. But most of those people will still vote for him in a general election even if they don’t approve of him, which is why he still leads the Democratic field.
Toomey has leads of 41-38 over Joe Sestak, 43-36 over Katie McGinty, and 41-34 over John Fetterman.
I’m 100% behind Sestak just as I was the last time he ran against Toomey. I think PA Democrats have made a huge mistake bringing McGinty into the race. Supposedly, she was courted for the job as someone better able to beat Toomey, even though this poll doesn’t tend to support such a claim.
The thing that will make the difference is voter turnout. If Democrats turn out in large numbers, we can send Toomey packing. But we need you voting on election day!