A new poll with the largest sample size so far shows Democrat Laura Kelly and Republican Kris Kobach locked in a dead heat in the Kansas governor’s race.
The Sunflower State Journal obtained results of a new Remington Research poll showing Kelly leading with 42 percent compared to 41 percent for Kobach. Independent Greg Orman was third with 10 percent.
Libertarian Jeff Caldwell was at 2 percent, and independent Rick Kloos was last with 1 percent. The undecided vote was at 4 percent.
It was the fifth consecutive poll showing similar results, although voters seem more certain than before about whom they’re going to support in the general election.
Orman has already gone off broadcast television, but the campaign said it’s guarding its future strategy as the general election approaches. He has said publicly he will remain in the race in the face of pressure from Democrats to bow out.
While the Remington poll reflects similar surveys of the Kansas governor’s race, it tested the biggest sample size of any survey done so far.
Remington polled 1,680 likely voters from Sept. 30 through Oct. 1, according to limited details provided to the Sunflower State Journal. The poll had a margin of error of 2.4 percent.
The Remington poll’s sample size was bigger than a poll done by the Kansas National Education Association (877) and two internal Democratic polls, one with 618 voters and another with 1,178. Emerson College polled 938 registered voters.
The Remington Poll, which ended Monday, also indicated that voters are the most locked since the general election campaign began.
The 4 percent undecided in the Remington poll was the lowest percentage of undecideds of any poll done so far in the race.
The KNEA poll done from Aug. 24 to 26 had the undecideds at 11 percent. A Democratic poll done by Public Policy Polling from Sept. 12 to Sept. 13 put the undecideds at 12 percent.
Another Democrat poll saw the undecideds shrink to 5 percent by Sept. 24. The Emerson College poll, done Sept. 26 to Sept. 28, had the undecideds at 15 percent.
