Election 2026: New Hampshire Senate - Rasmussen Reports
The poll puts Pappas five points ahead of John Sununu in the New Hampshire Senate race.

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TAP FOR WHYRasmussen Reports publishes its own polling and provides basic information about the sample, fieldwork and margin of error. The article offers limited detail for assessing the poll independently, and the publisher is a polling-focused outlet rather than a general news organization.
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The brief poll report does not provide enough material to assess balance beyond presenting one survey’s results.
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The report presents the poll figures and change in the candidates’ standing in neutral language, without an evident partisan framing.
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A Rasmussen Reports poll puts Chris Pappas five points ahead of John Sununu in New Hampshire’s Senate race, while showing Sununu has narrowed the gap since early September.
Rasmussen Reports says its latest survey found that 49% of likely New Hampshire voters would vote for Chris Pappas and 44% for John Sununu. Three percent would vote for Constitution Party candidate Edmond Laplante, and 4% were undecided.
The article says Pappas’s lead was 11 points in early September. The October survey included 979 likely voters and had a reported margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
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