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Toplines - Tennessee Senate - April 3, 2008

Tennessee Senate Election

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

April 3, 2008

1* How do you rate the way that Phil Bredesen is performing his roll as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

21% Excellent

36% Good

29% Fair

12% Poor

2% Not sure

2* 2008 Senate Election Match-Ups

Alexander	59%	Alexander	58%
Tuke	30%	Padgett	31%
Other	4%	Other	4%
Not sure	7%	Not sure	7%

3* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

	Alexander	Tuke	Padgett
Very Favorable	27%	5%	3%
Somewhat Favorable	40%	25%	27%
Somewhat Unfavorable	20%	25%	25%
Very Unfavorable	7%	16%	14%
Not sure	5%	29%	32%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence