New polling shows conflicting information about how close the governor’s race really is between Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Memphis City Councilmember Jerri Green.
The Republican-leaning Spry Research found Blackburn had a 12-point lead over Green, while a less established pollster, Political Intelligence, put the mainline party candidates within two points of each other.
As a firm, Political Intelligence has virtually no footprint outside of polling it conducted on behalf of Brandon Herrera, a Republican candidate for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. A Canadian political firm by the same name denied conducting polling for Herrera when asked by FiftyPlusOne. A spokesperson for Green told WPLN News that a “trusted source” shared the polling with her campaign…