SurveyUSA (7/27-29, likely voters, 6/16-17 in parens):
Darcy Burner (D): 44 (45)
Dave Reichert (R-inc): 50 (51)
(MoE: ±3.8%)
The good news is: it looks like SurveyUSA is going to be polling the race in WA-08 every month, all the better to track the progress of netroots fave Darcy Burner. The bad news is: the race is basically static since last time, with Burner still down by 6. The candidates don't seem to be doing paid media yet, though, so nothing has really happened in the last month to move the numbers (other than Burner's house fire, which at least got her in the news for a few days).
One piece of good news, though: this poll finds the candidates tied among independents 45-45 (an improvement from last month, where Reichert led among indies by 13). If Burner can bolster her numbers among Democrats (16% of whom are defecting to support the ostensibly moderate Reichert), she'll be right in this thing.
Survey USA (7/27-29, likely voters, 6/16-17 in parens):
Rick Larsen (D-inc): 58 (56)
Rick Bart (R): 37 (38)
(MoE: ±4.4%)
Inexplicably, SurveyUSA also keeps polling WA-02, which isn't on anyone's map. Had Rick Bart (a fairly high-profile guy, as the former sheriff of Snohomish County) gotten into the fundraising game a lot earlier, he might have at least been able to get this into 'likely D' territory. But right now, he's sitting on $0 CoH, having raised and spent $31,456 in Q2.
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