8th District poll shows close race

Just one week before the election a new poll finds candidates in the 8th District locked in a very tight race. The Survey USA poll, conducted for Washington, D.C. newspaper, Roll Call, finds Congressman Jim Marshall leading Republican challenger, Rick Goddard by just four percentage points. The 8th District is considered to be conservative. In the same poll John McCain leads Barack Obama by 16 points. The poll looked at 700 registered voters. Most of them already cast their ballots. African-American voters could be crucial for a Marshall victory. The three term congressman leads strongly among them, and the 8th District is one-third African-American. In 2006 Marshall beat his Republican challenger by less than 2-thousand votes.

Survey USA poll:
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=09f8180d-a6c3-4047-8bfe-c8e8e2d149bf