Democrat Frank Caprio leads independent candidate Lincoln Chafee by 12 percentage points in the race for Rhode Island governor, according to an NBC 10-Quest Research poll released Tuesday.
The poll was conducted Sept. 15-17 and sampled 495 randomly selected registered voters. It has a 4.7 percent margin of error. The NBC 10/Quest Research poll is part of WJAR’s election year partnership with Rhode Island College and the American Democracy Project.
In the race for governor, the poll shows Caprio with 36 percent to Chafee's 24 percent. Republican John Robitaille had 13 percent, and Moderate Party candidate Ken Block had 2 percent. One quarter of the respondents said they were undecided.
The poll found Caprio leads Chafee in most regions of Rhode Island, except in Washington County where Chafee leads Caprio 33 percent to 19 percent.
Independents were almost evenly split between the two leading candidates. Democrats favored Caprio 2-to-1, according to the poll.
Respondents identified jobs and unemployment as the two most important issues that would influence their votes.
The poll found Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts had a commanding lead of 44 percent over independent Robert Healey with 19 percent and Republican Heidi Rogers with 11 percent. The poll was done before Rogers pulled out of the race. Twenty-four percent of the respondents said they were undecided.
The poll found Democrat Peter Kilmartin with 37 percent in the race for attorney general, well ahead of Republican Erik Wallin and independent Keven McKenna with 9 percent each. Moderate Chris Little and independent Rob Rainville had 3 percent each. However, 37 percent said they were undecided.
Incumbent Secretary of State Ralph Mollis had just over half the vote -- 52 percent -- compared to 23 percent for Republican Catherine Taylor. Another 23 percent said they were undecided.
Forty percent of the respondents said they were undecided in the race for general treasurer between Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Kernan King.
The poll found the Democratic candidates in control of both congressional races in Rhode Island.
In the 1st District, Providence Mayor David Cicilline is leading his Republican opponent by a margin of nearly 2-to1. Cicilline had 49 percent to John Loughlin's 26 percent. About 25 percent said they were undecided. The poll found Cicilline and Loughlin in a statistical dead heat in Newport County.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, the Democratic incumbent, has a commanding lead over Republican Mark Zaccaria in the 2nd Congressional District. The poll found Langevin with 54 percent compared to Zaccaria's 20 percent. Twenty-six percent said they were undecided.
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