Monday, November 06, 2006

MELTDOWN --- Sen. BURNS trailing; pulls press credentials for reporting poll

HELENA - Democratic Senate challenger Jon Tester appears to hold a slight lead over Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in a new poll of likely voters released Monday. The poll drew an unusually sharp reaction from the Burns campaign.

A Burns spokesman dismissed the USA Today/Gallup poll as inaccurate and said the campaign was revoking one newspaper's credentials to attend Burns' election night event in Billings because it wrote about the poll.

Jason Klindt said the Great Falls Tribune would not be allowed to attend...

The USA Today/Gallup telephone survey of 734 likely Montana voters was conducted Nov. 1 through Nov. 3 and showed Tester with 50 percent, compared with Burns' 41 percent. The margin of error was 5 percentage points.

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