Tribune Poll: Quinn, Brady In Dead Heat

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 1, 2010 3:20PM

While recent polls and projections by a pretty reliable pundit - FiveThirtyEight - put GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady with a lead over Gov. Pat Quinn, a new Tribune poll shows the two may be closer to a dead heat heading into the final month of the campaign. The new Tribune/WGN poll, conducted last Friday through this Tuesday of 600 likely voters, puts Quinn in the lead 39 percent to Brady's 38 percent with Scott Lee Cohen registering four percent, Green Party candidate Rich Whitney pulling in three percent, and Libertarian candidate Lex Green with 2 percent; the poll has a margin of error of four percent. It's quite a swing from the pre-Labor Day poll the Trib conducted which put Brady in the lead by about five percent (37 to 32). Of the voters that were polled, 18 percent of those that considered themselves "Independent" were undecided, surely the key section of voters both Quinn and Brady will target in the upcoming month heading into November 2nd's general election.