MONTANA SURVEY of 500 likely voters

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Toplines

Crosstabs for Ballot Questions

Previous Montana Survey

Daily Snapshot

1* If the election for the United States Senate were held today, would you vote for Republican Conrad Burns or for Democrat Jon Tester?

                46% Burns

48% Tester           

                                  2% some other candidate

                                  4% not sure

WITH LEANERS

46% Burns

49% Tester           

                                  1% some other candidate

                  4% not sure

BREAKDOWN

46% Total Burns

                40%        Certain Burns

                  6%        Burns

                  0%        Lean Burns

49% Total Tester

                34%        Certain Tester

                14%        Tester

                  1%        Lean Tester

                  1% Some Other Candidate

                  4% Not Sure

2* Is your vote primarily a vote for a candidate or against his opponent?

                Burns voters

65% for Burns

31% against Tester

  5% not sure

Tester voters

59% for Tester

37% against Burns

  4% not sure

3* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of:

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.