Six-term incumbent Thad Cochran, the Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, has a 16-point lead, 40-24, over Democrat Travis Childers for re-election to the Senate from Mississippi, says Public Policy Polling. PPP says “voters are still deeply divided over the general election” with 31 percent undecided. Childers leads 37-36 against state Sen Chris McDaniel, who lost a runoff to Cochran. PPP said 39 percent of Republicans “think that McDaniel should not concede the race to Cochran.”
Pollster lists one other poll since the June 24 runoff. That poll, by Rasmussen, had Cochran leading 46-34.
Looking at the mid-term elections, FiveThirtyEight says, “the final outcome for the Senate could be anything from a minor Republican gain to a GOP romp. At the moment, the state of play seems manageable from a Democratic perspective, but the party’s position is perilous.”