Two new polls released this week showed U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Oshkosh) inching ahead of his Democratic rival Mandela Barnes among likely voters. A new Marquette University Law School poll found Johnson had the support of 52% of likely voters while his Barnes was backed by 46%. The poll of 652 likely voters was conducted October 3-9 using landline or cell phone and has a margin of error of +/- 4.8%. FiveThirtyEight rates MU Law School an A/B pollster.
A new CBS News poll found 50% of likely voters supported Johnson while 49% backed Barnes. The poll of 1,138 registered voters was weighted according to gender, age, race, education and geographic region. It was conducted October 3-7 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. FiveThirtyEight rates CBS News an A- pollster.
