Warren Leads Brown By 5 Points In Latest Poll

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Ken O’Brien
The latest BostonGlobe poll shows Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren leadingincumbent Senator Scott Brown by 43% to 38%. However, the poll shows that 18%of those polled remain undecided.
This is a turnaround for Warren from the lastGlobe poll conducted in May when Senator Brown held a two point lead. The result,though, still falls within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.4%.
During the month of September there have been atotal of eight public polls on the race, six of which showed Warren in thelead. 
The candidates will face off in their second debateof the campaign tomorrow night at 7 pm on WHDH channel 7.
Andrew E. Smith, the Globe’s pollster and thedirector of the University of New Hampshire ­Survey Center, commented, “It’strending away from Brown,’’ he said . “Brown right now is not doing well enoughamong Democrats to offset the advantage that ­Warren has. That’s just such abig obstacle to overcome for any Republican candidate” in Massachusetts.
The poll also showed strong support for two stateballot questions, which require more than 50 percent approval to pass. A full68 percent of voters, including a majority in both parties, said they support avoter initiative that would make physician-assisted suicide legal forterminally ill patients, compared with 20 percent of respondents who said they opposethe measure. Likewise, 69 percent of voters in the poll said they support ameasure to make marijuana legal for medical use. This question also received bipartisan support.
In regards to the controversy surrounding Warren’sclaims of Native American heritage, the poll suggests most voters are nowfamiliar with the controversy, with 79 percent in the survey saying they wereat least somewhat familiar with it, compared with 70 percent who said so inMay.
Of those who knew of the controversy, 71 percentsaid it would have no impact on their vote, while 24 percent said it would makethem less likely to support Warren. Notably, 10 percent of Obama’s supportersare among the group who said the controversy makes them less likely to vote forWarren.