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It's a Dead Heat!

October 7, 2008

We've just received great news from a poll of 500 likely voters conducted by the respected polling firm, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, and Associates. Dr. Bill Durston is in a statistical dead heat with Dan Lungren in California's 3rd Congressional District!

When voters were asked who they would vote for if they were to vote today, 33% chose Lungren, 30%, chose Bill, 7% chose another candidate, and 30% were undecided. With a margin of error of 4%, the differences between Bill and Lungren were not statistically significant.

After hearing a positive profile about both Lungren and Bill, the tallies were even closer - 39% for Lungren and 38% for Bill. After hearing about some of Lungren's many shortcomings, including his Hawaii vacation paid for by special interests, his allegiance to the Bush-Cheney administration, and his fondness for taking money from Big Oil, voters chose Bill over Lungren by a margin of 43% to 34%, a difference which is highly statistically significant.

Bill's been saying all along that this is a winnable race, and now we've got the polling data to prove it. Thanks to lots of hard work and thousands of generous contributions from people like you, we've narrowed a 21% difference in the vote count in 2006 to a negligible difference right now, on the eve of absentee ballots being received, and 27 days before the election.

Please do everything that you can to turn what is now a close race into a resounding victory! Click on the Contribute, Upcoming Events, and Action Alert tabs to make as generous a contribution as you can afford during this final, critical phase of the campaign, and to become actively involved in our campaign to take back our democracy!

Click here to read the Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, and Associates polling memo.