With five days remaining before the election, incumbent
Democrat Louise Slaughter has regained her 10 point lead over her Republican
challenger, Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, in the race for the 25th
Congressional District, according to a new Siena poll out this morning.

Brooks had narrowed the gap to about five points early last
month.

Slaughter leads Brooks 86 percent to 12 percent among
Democrats, who hold a nine-point enrollment edge in the district. Brooks,
according to the poll, has the support of about 75 percent of Republicans and
continues to hold a small lead over Slaughter among independents.

More women favor Slaughter, 55 percent to 38 percent, while
men are almost evenly split, the poll says.

The race has gotten nasty and personal, with outside groups
pumping tons of money into both campaigns. Despite that, Siena says that
Slaughter “continues to have a strong positive favorability rating, largely unchanged
over the last five weeks of a bruising campaign.”

Brooks’ favorability rating has dropped moderately, the poll
says.

This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2012.

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2 replies on “Slaughter re-opens 10-point lead over Brooks”

  1. Meanwhile, Collins is surging and Washington Post analysts just upgraded NY-27 to “lean Republican”.

    Slaughter is a standard, worn-out hyper-partisan D.C. extremist who doesn’t and won’t represent mainstream Monroe County residents. Do Monroe proud and vote Maggie!

  2. SUBJECT: Your Endorsement of Barak Obama for President

    I want to congradulate you for your editorial endorsing Barak H. Obama for President of the United States—in Vol 42, No. 8. It was an example of good journalism—all too often absent in today’s papers. You took a stand, then substantiated your stand, citing specifiics—A, B, & C.

    I hope that the letters in support of Ms. Brooks were not examples of her supporters—that they were selected to make a point—because they did not make her look very good. Your column seemed to say, this man is good because he did thus and that. They seemed to say that maybe Maggie Brooks is not very good, but see how bad Ms. Slaughter is. [As you can see, I would much rather vote for someone, instead of voting against the other one.]

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