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Toplines - 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary - February 8, 2010

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Pennsylvania State Survey of 425 Likely Democratic Primary Voters

Conducted February 8, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

1* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly

approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been

doing?

47% Strongly approve

28% Somewhat approve

12% Somewhat disapprove

11% Strongly disapprove

2% Not sure

2* How would you rate the job Ed Rendell has been doing as Governor… do you strongly

approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been

doing?

28% Strongly approve

41% Somewhat approve

16% Somewhat disapprove

14% Strongly disapprove

0% Not sure

3* Suppose the Democratic Primary for the 2010 United States Senate were held today. Would you vote for Arlen Specter or Joe Sestak?

51% Specter

36% Sestak

4% Some other candidate

9% Not sure

4* 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.

Specter

Sestak

Very Favorable

33%

14%

Somewhat Favorable

36%

41%

Somewhat Unfavorable

16%

19%

Very Unfavorable

13%

4%

Not Sure

1%

21%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence