R-J: Porter, Titus in Close Contest- Most in district rank incumbent fair, poor PDF Print E-mail
R-J Opinion Poll for CD-3 (June 14, 2008) By Molly Ball

        In the first poll pitting him against his likely opponent, Rep. John Porter is locked in a tight race with state Sen. Dina Titus to retain his seat in Congress.
Porter, a Republican, had the support of 45 percent of likely voters in the 3rd Congressional District in the survey, versus 42 precent who said they would vote for Titus, a Democrat, if the election were held today.
Another 13 percent of the 232 likely voters surveyed were undecided.  The poll, conducted for the Review-Journal by Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., carries a margin of error of plus or minus 6.6 percentage points.
"The numbers clearly suggest it's a competitive seat.  I'd say Porter is at a disadvantage," Mason-Dixon managing parter Brad Coker said of the poll results.  The race for Porter's seat is expected to be one of the most competitive in the nation in November.
A former Boulder City councilman and mayor and former state senator, Porter, 53, is seeking a fourth term in the House of Representatives.  Titus, 58, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas political science professor and the leader of the Democratic minority in the state Senate, was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor in 2006.
The district had historically been about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, but Democrats in recent months have built an advantage of more than 20,000 registered voters -- about 6 precent of the electorate.  

 
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