HI-Merriman River Group: Internal shows Case (D) leading in Primary and General

[Tender Branson]

We also did a survey on possible primary and general elections through Merriman River Group (March 2011; 1,012 registered voters statewide; 3% margin of error). I retained very good overall name recognition and favorability, prevailed in the Democratic primary matchups (for example, Case 47%, Hannemann 35%, Unsure 18%), and did best among the Democrats in a general election against presumed Republican nominee Linda Lingle (Case 49%, Lingle 37%, Unsure 14%).

http://www.edcase.com/senate-12-update/

PPP will have an HI-Sen general election poll out on behalf of Daily Kos/SEIU in the next couple of days.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/28/960811/-DK-Elections-Daily-Digest:-3-28

[Tender Branson]

Looks about right, Merriman is normally a good pollster, they got the CT Gov. and Sen. race right last year and predicted 3 of the 5 CD's in CT correctly. They also did well last year in the HI races.

But let's see what PPP shows, but in general Case should be the next US Senator from HI.