Republicans Say Kuhl is Outpolling Massa in Upstate House Seat
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- May
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Hoping to drum up support and money for Rep. Randy Kuhl’s re-election bid, the National Republican Congressional Committee released a poll today that it conducted in January that shows Kuhl with a 20 percentage-point lead over Democrat Eric Massa.
Kuhl represents the 29th Congressional District, which runs from the Southern Tier to the Rochester suburbs.
Politicial parties will release internal polls to help show the viability of their candidate and spur campaign contributions and support. So it’s interesting that a two-term incumbent would have to release a poll that shows he’s in the lead against Massa, whom Kuhl narrowly beat two years ago.
But Kuhl has been outraised by Massa this year, and Kuhl remains one of the most vulnerable Republican House members upstate, especially after his Republican colleagues, Reps. Thomas Reynolds and James Walsh, have chosen to retire than seek re-election in November.
The poll was a small sample of only 300 voters in the district, which is the most heavily Republican seat in the state.
“As the numbers in this polling memo illustrate, Randy Kuhl is well-positioned to win in November. Eric Massa is a re-run candidate that now will carry the weight of a Democrat Congress that has voted for new taxes and increased spending at every turn on his shoulders,” NRCC spokeswoman Julie Shutley said.
There was no immediate reaction from Massa’s campaign.
Updated: Here’s the response from Massa campaign manager Dave Marion:
“Eric Massa is focused on creating good jobs with benefits in Western New York, not cooking up last winter’s left-over poll numbers. When this poll was taken last winter, the majority of people thought that the Patriots were going to win the Super Bowl, but we know how that turned out.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
