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NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D.C. HARTFORD LOS ANGELES GLOBALSTRATEGYGROUP.COM
MEMORANDUM
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Global Strategy Group
RE: CT 05 Survey Results
DATE: August 27, 2012
The results of our survey of likely voters in Connecticuts 5th Congressional District show the
district to be a likely hold for Democrats with Democrat Elizabeth Esty leading Republican
Andrew Roraback by 9 points.
POLL RESULTS
If the election for Congress was today, 44% of likely voters say they would vote for Elizabeth
Esty, while 35% would vote for Andrew Roraback. The district is primed to vote for a Democrat, with a generic Democratic candidate for
Congress beating a generic Republican candidate by 10 points, 48% to 38%.
After voters are read positive profiles of both Esty and Roraback, Estys lead expands to 15
points, 53% to 38%.
Democrat Elizabeth Esty has earned a reputation as a tireless advocate for the middle class. She has a plan to
reinvigorate manufacturing and promote the clean energy industry to create jobs. She supports ending the Bush
tax cuts for millionaires, closing tax loopholes and ending government subsidies for oil companies. As a town
council member, she ensured that budget surpluses were used to pay down debt and established a Rainy Day
Fund. In the legislature, she cut her own pay 10 percent and supports a 5 percent pay cut in Congress and no
pay raises until the budget is balanced. She has a long record of advocacy for pro-choice causes and supported
gay marriage.
Republican Andrew Roraback is a common sense leader and proven fiscal conservative who knows Congress
must seriously address spending now to avoid leaving our children and grandchildren a crushing debt. He has
the courage to make hard choices to balance the budget and will vote to repeal Obamacare. Roraback led efforts
to stop the largest tax hike in Connecticut's history and he supports tax reform and other pro-growth policies that
will spur the creation of new jobs in the private sector. Roraback will always put Connecticut first and knows that
means supporting common-sense conservation efforts, comprehensive immigration reform, and a woman's right
to choose.
METHODOLOGY
This memorandum summarizes results from a live telephone poll of 402 randomly selected
likely voters in Connecticuts 5
th
Congressional District conducted August 21-23, 2012. The estimation error associated with a sample of 400 is 4.9% at the 95% confidence
interval. This means that in 95 of 100 cases, the results of this poll are within plus or minus
4.9 points of the results that would have been obtained if all likely voters had been
interviewed. Note that special care was taken to ensure the geographic and demographic
divisions of the actual electorate are properly represented.