Republican businessman Eric Hovde continues to trail incumbent Tammy Baldwin in the Wisconsin Senate race less than two weeks from election day, but margins have narrowed to the point that the contest is now considered a "toss up" by a leading nonpartisan forecaster and the GOP is pouring money to flip the seat.
The latest survey, sponsored by the Republican party and conducted by the Trafalgar group among 1,083 likely voters between October 18 and 20 even shows Hovde leading by one percentage point, 49% to 48%. But all nonpartisan polls published during the month before that one still show Baldwin ahead by margins ranging between one and five percentage points.
