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Gov. Pat Quinn is leading Republican challenger Bruce Rauner by four points according to a new poll released Monday, Oct. 27.
The CBS News/New York Times/YouGov Battleground Tracker poll showed that 41 percent of likely voters said they support incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn while 37 percent said they would cast their ballots for Bruce Rauner.
With the election less than a week away, still 13 percent of those polled said they are undecided.
The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3 percent and was conducted Oct. 16-23 among 3,519 registered voters.
Female voters mostly back Quinn at 44 percent, with 38 percent of their male counterparts in agreement.
According to the poll, 47 percent of male voters will vote for Rauner, while 28 percent of women say they will support the Republican challenger.
Black voters vastly support Quinn (72 percent) with only 10 percent planning to cast their ballots for Rauner.
Among Latino voters surveyed, 41 percent said they support Quinn, with 30 percent in favor of Rauner.
In Illinois, Latinos make up the largest minority group, standing at 16 percent of the state’s total population. According to the Illinois Latino Agenda, a coalition of nonpartisan, Latino-led nonprofits, there are 770 thousand Latinos eligible to vote in the state. The Latino electorate continues to grow at a rate of 30 thousand per year, as young Latinos reach voting age, the coalition said in a press release.
On Oct. 9, Illinois Latino Agenda released the results of a gubernatorial candidate questionnaire. The 21-question, open-ended survey asked both Quinn and Rauner their plans on everything from education, economic development to immigration.
Quinn provided his survey answers, but Rauner did not respond to requests. The survey was sent to both candidates on two different occasions.
In response to a survey question asking how he would encourage job creation in low-income Latino communities, Quinn said he will continue to support the expansion of capital access programs (i.e. microloans) and will work “directly with the banking community to address inconsistencies across community lending patterns.”
Businessman and Republican challenger Rauner suggested a number of different job creation strategies on his campaign website. These include eliminating the “Quinn-Madigan tax hikes” and replacing them with a comprehensive overhaul of existing tax codes in addition to creating Right-to-Work zones that would allow communities to determine “whether workers must join a union in order to get a job.”
