Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next year.
Alsobrooks leads Republican Larry Hogan — a former governor elected twice in the deep-blue state — by 11 percentage points among likely voters, even though the poll shows Hogan has won over a sizable portion of Democrats and remains about as popular with voters as his rival.
With tens of millions of dollars yet to be spent on the airwaves, a debate ahead and national attention locked on to the race, Alsobrooks’s 51 percent to 40 percent advantage is significant and demonstrates momentum, but it is not enough to put a Hogan upset out of the question.
