•GA-Sen, -Gov: A new PPP poll for the progressive group Better Georgia finds things tightening ahead of next week's GOP runoff for Senate. Rep. Jack Kingston now holds a 47-41 lead on businessman David Perdue, compared to a 46-34 advantage just after the primary in late May. InsiderAdvantage also saw a narrowing race recently, predicated mostly on a Perdue surge, and a Perdue internal a couple of weeks ago even put him 1 point ahead.
Perdue will also get a boost soon from his first cousin, ex-Gov. Sonny Perdue, who's cut an ad for him. (The spot's not available yet, though.) Kingston hasn't offered any contradictory numbers, so this contest may wind up being more exciting than it originally looked.
Democrat Michelle Nunn certainly has to hope so. The same poll gives her a 44-41 edge on Kingston but a wider 48-41 lead on Perdue, who presumably has higher negatives. What's interesting is that the undecideds do not lean Republican in the Kingston matchup, even though Georgia's a red state. They supported Obama by a 45-32 margin, though the smaller group of Nunn-Perdue undecideds preferred Romney 35-24. This suggests that Democrats are theoretically more open to voting for Kingston, though he may not have the easiest time wooing them.
Note, though, that the Senate pairings didn't include any third-party candidates candidate, but Better Georgia also tested the gubernatorial race, and there they did ask about the Libertarian. Andrew Hunt continues to take an outsize 8 percent of the vote, leaving GOP Gov. Nathan Deal with just a 41-40 edge on Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter. That's quite similar to the 43-all tie, with Hunt at 7, that PPP found back in May. And even if Hunt's share drops, these results still suggest that a December runoff remains likely.