As reported by Vermont Public Radio, its latest poll shows the Democratic and Republican candidates vying for Vermont's governorship in a dead heat. Results from the first head-to-head poll of the 2016 race for governor, conducted by the Castleton Polling Institute, show Republican Phil Scott and Democrat Sue Minter locked in a statistical dead heat with just under threeweeks until Election Day. Scott has 39% of the vote and Minter holds 38%. That’s within the survey’s 3.9% margin of error.
Vermont tends to favor Democrats, especially in presidential election years. According to a 2015 Gallup poll Vermont has the widest partisan spread in the nation with 52% of voters identifying as Democrat or Democrat leaning, compared to 30% favoring, or leaning, Republican.
The higher support for Scott is attributed to him being a familiar 3-term lieutenant governor who’s made inroads with Democrats. Polls show that Scott wins favor with people who don’t care for his party, and draws more heavily from the Democrats than Sue Minter does from Republicans.
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