Democrat Leads in Poll Before N.Y. Congress Election Today
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Democrat Kathy Hochul led Republican Jane Corwin by four percentage points in the latest Siena College poll before today’s special election for a U.S. House seat in western New York testing the impact of a national debate over containing Medicare costs.
Hochul, the Erie County clerk, had 42 percent compared with 38 percent for state lawmaker Corwin in the poll of 639 likely voters conducted May 18-20. Buffalo-area industrialist Jack Davis, running on the Tea Party ballot slot, had 12 percent. The poll’s error margin was plus-or-minus 3.9 percentage points.