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Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer
Two weeks before the Nov. 6 election, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer holds a commanding lead of 50-36 percent over Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette in the governor's race, according to a poll released Monday.
Whitmer leads Schuette in every geographical area in the state except for northern Michigan, MRG Michigan says.
Whitmer is ahead by 23 percentage points with women -- 55-32 percent -- and by 21 percentage points with Independent voters, 37-16 percent.
The margin of sampling error is 4 percentage points in either direction.
“Bill Schuette hasn’t been able to recover from the bitter primary battle that increased his negative perception headed into the general election,” Tom Shields, President of Marketing Resource Group (MRG), says in a release.
“Whitmer has put together an impressive coalition of metro Detroit and west Michigan voters, women and young voters that Schuette has not been able to crack. He’ll need to quickly change the momentum to have a chance on Nov. 6.”
Tom Shields' media release.
His two-question survey of 600 likely Michigan voters was conducted by phone interviews Oct. 14-18, 2018, with this methodology:
The sample was randomly drawn from a listed sample of all registered voters with a history of voting and stratified by city and township to reflect voter turnout. Thirty percent of the sample was conducted with cell phone users. In addition, quotas for gender and cell phone interviews were met within each geographic area, and extra efforts were made to reach African Americans.
Another survey released a few days ago shows two key Michigan congressional races too close to call: Republican Lena Epstein v. Democrat Haley Stevens; and incumbent Republican Mike Bishop v. Democrat Elissa Slotkin.
Ed Sarpolus of Target Insyght in Lansing released the poll for the Michigan Information & Research Service (MIRS) and FOX 2, which shows Bishop leading Slotkin by 3 percentage points, the Detroit Free Press reports. The margin of error is 4.5 percent.
The poll shows Stevens and Epstein tied at 48 percent.
