New poll results released Monday show Republican Gov. John Hoeven maintaining a big lead in North Dakota's U.S. Senate race.
Rasmussen Reports conducted a July 21 telephone survey of 500 likely North Dakota voters. The latest numbers show Hoeven with a 69 percent to 22 percent advantage over Democratic-NPL candidate Tracy Potter.
Only 2 percent of respondents said they would vote for another candidate, and 7 percent said they were undecided. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Hoeven has consistently had a strong advantage since Rasmussen Reports began tracking the race with monthly polls in March.
He held a 43-point lead in a March 23 poll, and that number kept increasing with each poll to a high of 54 points in a poll conducted June 15-16.
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His lead over Potter diminished slightly this month, with Hoeven now leading by 47 percentage points.
In Monday's poll analysis, Rasmussen Reports wrote that the consistent numbers show the Senate seat is "on course to be a likely GOP pickup in November."
Hoeven has been governor since 2000 and is in the middle of his third term.
Potter has been a state senator from Bismarck since 2007.
They're running for the Senate seat that retiring Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., has held since 1992.
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