Another full poll has Reid up; Incumbent trails Angle in separate survey

Sen. Harry Reid is up by three percentage points in a Senate poll released today by an organization that tested all the choices Nevadans will have on Election Day.

Reid led Republican challenger Sharron Angle by a 46-43 percent margin in the survey that also gave respondents the opportunity to select from "none of the above" and each of the minor party candidates that will be on the ballot.

The poll by Suffolk University in Boston is the second one released this week that tested the full Nevada ballot. Both showed Reid with slight leads, both within the statistical margins of error.

In the Suffolk poll, “Harry Reid is hanging on by a thread,” said David Paleologos, director of the university's political research center.

The poll of 500 likely Nevada voters was conducted last Saturday through Monday, and had a 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

In the Nevada gubernatorial race, the poll showed Republican Brian Sandoval with a comfortable lead over Democrat Rory Reid. The Sandoval lead was 49-38.

Here are the questions and responses, here are the crosstabs, and here is the university's discussion of its findings.

Meanwhile, Rasmussen Reports, which has been polling regularly in Nevada, issued its latest numbers that show Angle with 49 percent support and Reid with 48 percent.

It polled 750 likely Nevada voters on Monday, and said the margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Rasmussen, as most others have declared, said the race still is too close to call.

In other tidbits from the Suffolk University poll:

-- Sixty-two percent of Nevadans have a favorable impression of Hillary Clinton.

-- President Barack Obama enjoys a 52 percent favorable rating, more positive than in other surveys. And 49 percent approve of the job he is doing as opposed to 47 percent who disapprove.

-- Nevadans are pessimistic on the economy, with 92 percent declaring the recession is not over, and 60 percent saying the job situation in the state will not improve over the next six months. As for the federal stimulus plan, 61 percent believe it has not worked in the state.