Blunt and Purgason still far apart

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The Senate Democrats’ campaign committee sent out a press release today that at first glance prompted this reaction:

“No way.”

It was about a poll of the 2010 Missouri Senate race that showed state Sen. Chuck Purgason, who’s running a shoestring campaign for the Republican nomination, possibly “polling in the double-digits” against Republican Rep. Roy Blunt.

Blunt, a veteran congressman with national name I.D. who will be awash in Republican money next year, was “struggling to crack 50 against a little-known Republican opponent,’ the release quoted a polling firm official as saying.

Was Purgason actually creeping up on Blunt? He has little money and few outside of his Ozarks district know who he is. A sudden climb would cool the Blunt camp’s coffee pretty quickly.

But wait.

Turns out that Purgason’s ‘double-digit’ support was actually just 15 percent against Blunt’s 50, according to Tom Jenson, a spokesman for Public Policy Polling, the Raleigh, N.C. firm which conducted the survey.

That’s a pretty healthy cushion. Thirty-five percent was undecided.

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