Yellow Sheet Report says two new polls released Wednesday show Doug Ducey is pulling away in the governor’s race and now seems to have virtually sewn up the GOP gubernatorial nomination. The first poll was conducted by Missouri-based Remington Research Group Aug. 17-19, and shows Ducey comfortably ahead with 33 percent, Scott Smith with 22 percent and Christine Jones with 18 percent. The poll also shows undecided voters have shrunk to 5 percent as Election Day nears.
The other poll was the latest tracking survey commissioned by the Arizona Automobile Dealers Assn. found Ducey leading with 31 percent, followed by Smith (22 percent), Jones (17), Bennett (12), Thomas (8) and Riggs (3). The remaining 7 percent were undecided, reports Yellow Sheet.
AADA PR consultant Jason Rose noted Smith has seen his favorability drop to its lowest levels because of recent ads attacking him, which contributed to his trailing Jones on the second two days of polling. Rose also wrote that Jones’ recent cash infusion and the $1 million that ally Bob Parsons recently pumped into an IE effort to help her “would seem to be an exercise in image rehabilitation as there is no plausible path to the nomination with the number of votes already cast and the substantial margin she continues to trail Ducey.”
