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Poll: Shays losing ground in Connecticut Senate race

June 06, 2012 2:00 pm • Last Updated: June 06, 2012 2:07 pm

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Chris Shays, right, watches as votes are tallied at the Republican state convention in Hartford, Conn., Friday, May 18, 2012.

Hartford (AP) — One of former Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays' key selling points in Connecticut's Senate race is eroding.

A Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday shows Shays losing ground in a general election match-up with the endorsed Democratic candidate, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy. Murphy now beats Shays by an eight percentage point margin, compared to a statistical tie in a March 22 poll.

Murphy would beat former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, the endorsed Republican, by 3 percentage points. In March, Murphy bested McMahon by 15 points.

Poll Director Douglas Schwartz said the latest poll shows McMahon is more electable than Shays, weakening his argument to Republicans voting in the Aug. 14 primary.

The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.

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