Article: Poll Offers Grim Outlook For Moseley-Braun in '98

Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) is in trouble.

Only a third of all Illinois voters and half of Democrats said that Moseley-Braun deserves re-election in 1998, according to a new poll. Twenty-three percent of Democrats said they wanted someone new.

The telephone poll of 600 registered voters was conducted July 15-17 by the San Francisco firm of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates. The margin for error is 4 percent.

Paul Maslin, who took the survey, has conducted polls for Sen. Paul Simon, former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, former Illinois Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan and the late Mayor Harold Washington.

Only 42 percent of voters have a favorable view of the senator, and 38 ...

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