By The Tribune-Review
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, has a 12-point lead over former Rep. Melissa Hart, the Republican seeking to win back the 4th Congressional District post she lost to Altmire in 2006, according to an independent poll released today.
Altmire leads Hart of Bradford Woods by 54 percent to 42 percent, according to the Survey USA poll conducted for Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill. The automated poll of about 600 voters has an error factor of roughly plus or minus 4 percentage points, Roll Call said.
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain leads Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in the district by 8 percentage points, 51 percent to 43 percent, according to the poll. President Bush won the district by 9 points in 2004, though his job approval rating there now is just 30 percent, Roll Call noted. Only 11 percent of respondents approved of the job that Congress is doing.
The 4th District includes most of Beaver and Lawrence counties, and parts of Butler, Allegheny, Westmoreland and Mercer counties.
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