One week before Election Day, a Quinnipiac University poll finds Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal leading Republican Linda McMahon by 12 percentage points.
In the governor's race, Democrat Dan Malloy leads Republican Tom Foley, 48 to 43 percent, among likely voters, the poll found.
The margin of Blumenthal's lead is essentially unchanged from the Oct. 14 poll. Poll Director Doug Schwartz said time appears to be running out for McMahon, who had trailed Blumenthal by just 3 percentage points a month ago.
"Linda McMahon has tried to raise Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's negatives over the last several weeks, but she hasn't been successful. He remains popular, but McMahon's own negatives have risen above 50 percent. One has to wonder if over the last few weeks McMahon would have been better off spending more of her millions on positive ads," Schwartz said in a press release accompanying the numbers.
The McMahon campaign said it believes the margin is closer than today's poll shows.