Sauerberg Within Striking Distance of Durbin

from the Sauerberg Campaign

Durbin Barely over 50% in Ballot Test against Sauerberg

(Lombard, IL) - The campaign of U.S. Senate nominee Steve Sauerberg, MD, today released new polling on his race against long-time incumbent Senator Dick Durbin. "This polling confirms what we have long believed," said Christopher Hage, Sauerberg's Campaign Manager. "No amount of money from Washington special interest groups will be able to change Dick Durbin's disastrous 25-year record in D.C."

The polling, conducted by Southern Outreach, an Atlanta-based firm, shows Durbin struggling to break 50% in the uninformed ballot matchup against Sauerberg. In a head to head with Dr. Sauerberg, Durbin leads 52% to 35%. Outside of the Chicago-metro area, Durbin fails to garner 50% and only leads Sauerberg 47% to 40%.

"Senator Durbin is a household name in Illinois with an $8 million war chest and is the second-ranking member of the United States Senate," continued Hage.  "The fact that he starts this campaign barely over 50% is a sign of real weakness."

The automated poll of more than 1,500 likely voters was conducted on Saturday, July 12th.; 53% of respondents were Democrats, 35% were Republicans, and 12% were unaffiliated voters.

In addition to showing a tighter-than-expected race, the poll also revealed that Dr. Sauerberg has tremendous opportunity for growth.  Almost 60% of respondents did not know enough about Dr. Sauerberg to form a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him.  "Clearly our campaign has a real opportunity to close the gap with Durbin," said Hage.  "We are confident that as more people hear about Dr. Sauerberg's prescription for change, that our numbers will continue to improve."

"If Dick Durbin was hoping for a free pass this November, he was sadly mistaken.  This campaign is just beginning, and we intend on giving Dick Durbin all he can handle," concluded Hage.

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Sauerberg for U.S. Senate - P.O. Box 667 Lombard, IL 60148.  For more information on Steve's campaign please visit our website at www.sauerberg2008.com

Comments

[Aurora GOP]

If Sauerberg breaks 35% I'd be stunned.

[Scott Mesick]

Even though I fervently wish Durbin would fall, this guy is dreaming. He has a snowball's chance in hell. He's running an e-mail campaign with little money.

[Barb V]

The negatives on Durbin have to be pretty high. Maybe we're not the only ones embarrassed by his ignorance.

[spintreebob]

Durbin is the antithesis of CHANGE.

Will McCain&Co succeed in ridiculing phony CHANGE to such an extent that Durbin will benefit from not being CHANGE ?

On WLS Sunday night Sauerberg was not as articulate on Healthcare as he was in the South Suburbs a couple months ago. Deborah threw him softballs and he struck out. Deborah and Jim E had to try to rescue him.

Sauerberg needs to learn good sound bytes on Durbin's lack of bringing money back to IL, and how high taxes hurt IL more than most states, and how Durbin is wrong on energy, on the failure of government mandated housing regulations for FannieMae and FreddieMac and especially on healthcare.

[Frank Goudy]

Sauerberg is an outstanding candidate who has done something with his life other than running for political office. In Illinois, any statewide election for a Republican is a tough sell.

I do hope that the RNC and Illinois Republicans get behind Sauerberg. Getting rid of Durbin will be tough, but it is certainly worth a strong effort.

I have been on board with Sauerberg from the get go. He is a fine candidate that needs money to buy commercials that expose Durbin's loath of our military personal and the rest of his ultra liberal agenda.

Send him some dough, today!

[CookGOPGuy]

Seriously? Come on? Really? When you are touting a poll showing that 60% of respondents don't know who you are, you've already lost.

[Vote for Constitution Party Candidate Chad Koppie]

We all know Durbin's going to win with Obama on the ticket. Vote for Illinois Center Right and Illinois Forum's Chad Koppie who is running on the Constitution Party ticket.

[Eric Wallace]

Go Steve!

You naysayers understand that no one thought we'd have a contest between Obama and McCain. NO one thought Huckabee would do as well as he did. You prognosticators of bad news need to crawl back under a rock. If you can't say anything positive about your own candidate shut up.

Steve Sauerberg is a good, honest, hard working man. I admire his courage and fortitude. He is head and shoulders above Dick Durbin and deserves our support. He has my vote and my full support.

Go Steve!

[HGP]

Remember that Daschle lost his seat, so beating Durbin can be done. He called our soldiers similar to the Nazis, gulags and Pol Pot on the Senate floor. People have to be reminded what he said about our men in uniform.