Alex Mooney\u2019s campaign is refusing to release details of a poll it floated earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies,<\/a> shows Mooney, the Republican candidate in the Second Congressional district of West Virginia, at 40 percent, the Democrat Nick Casey at 28 percent, the Independent Ed Rabel at 8 percent and the Libertarian Davy Jones at 5 percent.<\/p>\n The poll found 19 percent of voters polled were undecided.<\/p>\n The poll also found that among independents, Mooney leads Casey by a 26-point margin, 47% \u2013 21%.<\/p>\n The Mooney campaign refused to release details about how Rabel, the Independent, and Jones, the Libertarian, did among independents.<\/p>\n For its part, the Casey campaign, fearful of Rabel\u2019s impact in November, issued a statement saying — \u201cno one believes the third-party candidates have double-digit support.\u201d<\/p>\n But Casey\u2019s campaign refused to release its own internal tracking polls.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have done polling and it produced a very positive result from our perspective,\u201d \u00a0Casey campaign spokesperson Mark Polen told the Charleston Daily Mail<\/em>. \u201cHowever, we did not feel the need to release it to dispute his poll, which we believe to be without merit.\u201d<\/p>\n Rabel is running a campaign highlighting his opposition to mountaintop removal mining and fracking.<\/p>\n Both Casey and Mooney support mountaintop removal mining and fracking.<\/p>\n Casey\u2019s campaign has taken in tens of thousands of dollars from oil and gas interests, including over $15,000 from executives at EQT Corporation, one of the largest natural gas producers in the Appalachian Basin.<\/p>\n The Mooney and Casey campaigns have each raised more than $1 million,<\/a> the vast majority of it from PACs and large contributors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex Mooney\u2019s campaign is refusing to release details of a poll it floated earlier this week. The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, shows Mooney, the Republican candidate in the Second Congressional district of West Virginia, at 40 percent, the … Continue reading