GOP Poll Shows Once-Vulnerable Hayes Looking Strong

by Chris Good - 08/15/08 2:20 PM ET

Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) has a ten-point advantage over a Democratic challenger who came within an eyelash of unseating him in 2006, according to a new poll

Hayes leads Democrat Larry Kissell 50 percent to 40 percent, with nine percent undecided, according to a poll taken on behalf of Hayes’s campaign and the National Republican Congressional Committee last week, the campaign announced today.

Kissell came within 329 votes of unseating Hayes in 2006, getting him noticed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which has called on donors to help Kissell retire his 2006 campaign debt.

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