KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana |Landrieu on verge of winning Nov. 5, pollster says

Landrieu on verge of winning Nov. 5, pollster says

Date:  October 22, 2002
Reporter:  Theresa Schmidt

Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says Senator Mary Landrieu is on the verge of winning in the November primary if she can hold on to her white vote in the final two weeks and get a large turnout of blacks.

A poll taken and paid for by Pinsonat's firm, Southern Media and Opinion Research, says Landrieu has 45-point-one percent and her closest opponent, Elections Commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell, has 15-and-a-half percent. With 24-point-six percent of the vote undecided, Pinsonat says Landrieu only needs five percent of that segment which includes a large number of black women. Congressman John Cooksey has nine-point-one percent and state Representative Tony Perkins, four-point-two percent. Five other candidates share just over one percent. The polling company interviewed 600 registered voters from October eleventh through last Thursday.

All were asked who they would vote for if the election was held today. Pinsonat says the poll has a four percentage-point margin of error either way.