Poll: Despite tax flap, no dive for McCaskill

Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who has yet to make a final decision on entering the race against McCaskill, comes the closest to the first-term Democrat. McCaskill leads Akin 46 percent to 45 percent.

McCaskill leads Republicans Sarah Steelman and Blaine Luetkemeyer 45 percent to 42 percent.  

Earlier this month, the chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), said she was confident the flap wouldn’t hurt the McCaskill’s reelection prospects.

“I don’t see damage with it, I really don’t,” Murray told reporters.

The Missouri Democrat announced in March that she was sending the St.
Louis County Department of Revenue checks to cover some $320,000 in
personal property taxes owed on her family-owned plane for 2007 to
2010.

She has apologized for the incident, calling it a “mistake.”

The survey polled 555 Missouri voters and has a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.