Election 2016: Utah Senate
Utah Senate: Lee (R) 57%, Snow (D) 25%
While the presidential race in Utah is unusually close, Republican Senator Mike Lee appears poised to keep his seat against Democratic challenger Misty Snow.
A new Heat Street/Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone and online survey of Likely Voters finds Lee, who is running for his second term in the U.S. Senate, picking up 57% of the vote to Snow’s 25%. Three percent (3%) prefer Independent American Party candidate Stoney Fonua, while another three percent (3%) support independent candidate Bill Barron. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 750 Likely Voters in Utah was conducted on October 14-16, 2016 by HeatStreet/Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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