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OnPolitics: New poll shows Nevada Senate race is a virtual tie

Nearly half of Nevada voters, 48%, rate the state's economy as "poor," more than double the 21% who call it "excellent" or "good."

Good afternoon, OnPolitics readers!

Exclusive new poll findings paint a picture of what next week's elections may yield. Politics Managing Editor Caren Bohan writes:

Barack Obama is headed to to Nevada as the latest USA Today/Suffolk poll shows a dead heat in the Senate race.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, whose seat is a top target for Republicans seeking to flip the Senate, is locked in a virtual tie with GOP challenger Adam Laxalt.

With a week left to go until the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Cortez Masto has a razor-thin edge over Laxalt, 45%-44%, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.

The governor's race in Nevada is also shaping up to be a cliff hanger, Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page writes.

Democrat Steve Sisolak and Republican Joe Lombardo, the Clark County sheriff, are dead even in the poll at 43%-43%.

Former president Obama is headed to the state Tuesday to campaign Cortez Masto and Sisolak. Former president Donald Trump has visited to stump for Laxalt and Lombardo.

The poll of 500 likely midterm voters, taken Oct. 24-28 by landline and cell phone, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

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