Rasmussen: Massachusetts Senate race a statistical dead heat

Tue, 01/12/2010 - 6:19pm | posted by Jason Pye

Rasmussen, who had Scott Brown trailing Martha Coakley by 9 points just last week, now shows the Massachusetts Senate race now in a statistical dead heat:

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley attracting 49% of the vote while her Republican rival, state Senator Scott Brown, picks up 47%.
Three percent (3%) say they’ll vote for independent candidate Joe Kennedy, and two percent (2%) are undecided. The independent is no relation to the late Edward M. Kennedy, whose Senate seat the candidates are battling to fill in next Tuesday’s election.
Coakley is supported by 77% of Democrats while Brown picks up the vote from 88% of Republicans. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Brown leads 71% to 23%. To be clear, this lead is among unaffiliated voters who are likely to participate in the special election.

The election is next Tuesday. It’s going to come down to the wire.