Things are getting tight in the Maryland Democratic U.S. Senate primary:
A new poll finds voters still split in Maryland's Democratic Senate primary, eight weeks before the election and as Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) takes her first step towards airing her own television ads.
The Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies survey, taken from Feb. 29 to March 4, found Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) leading Edwards among likely primary voters by a statistically insignificant 42 percent to 41 percent.
It's the third poll released this year that shows the two candidates essentially tied.
Edwards leads with women in the survey, while Van Hollen leads with men. Likewise, he wins white voters by an overwhelming margin while she wins African Americans. He is more popular in Montgomery County, where his congressional district is based, and in the Baltimore suburbs and rural Maryland. She finds more favor in Prince George's County, where her district is centered, and in Baltimore City.
"Van Hollen’s path to victory lies in winning his regions of supremacy with about two-thirds of the vote to offset Edwards’s depth with African American voters," pollster Patrick Gonzales said in a statement.
For Edwards, the task will be to turn out her voters. The poll sample is 43 percent African American; in the 2008 presidential primary, the electorate was 37 percent African-American.
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