Boom: Brown: 49, Warren: 44

Boom: Brown: 49, Warren: 44

A new PPP poll released today shows Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) edging Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren by five percentage points:

Republican Sen. Scott Brown leads Democrat Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, according to a new poll from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling.

Brown leads Warren 49 percent to 44 percent. The survey of 1,115 likely voters was conducted Aug. 16-19, and has a 2.9 percent margin of error. In the previous survey from late June, the two were tied of 46 percent apiece.

This survey is significant for at least three reasons: (1) Unlike the findings from...