NV Sen Poll: In Full Ballot Test, Reid Deficit Grows

When the Las Vegas Review-Journal published results of its latest Mason Dixon poll earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's campaign complained that the survey didn't present an accurate picture of where the race really stood, since it did not include other independent candidates and Nevada's peculiar "none of these" option on the ballot.

Well, today the pollster and the paper have a new poll (625 RVs, 4/13-14, MoE +/- 4%) that includes those options, and finds little different from their initial survey.

General Election Matchup
Lowden (R) 47
Reid (D) 37
Fasano (IAP) 3
Ashjian (TP) 2
Harris (I) --
Holland (I) --
Reaves (I) --
Stand (I) --
None of these 3
Und 8

Reid only trailed Lowden by 8 in that more confined ballot test. So this survey would seem to deflate his campaign's complaints.

"The bottom line is that adding all these minor candidates won't really bleed support away exclusively from the Republican," Mason Dixon's Brad Coker told the paper. "They're not really bleeding much support from either candidate, Reid or Lowden, and if they do siphon off votes, it'll probably be about half and half."

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