* Why the heck would he release this?…

An in­tern­al poll con­duc­ted by Lin­coln Park Strategies for state Sen. Na­po­leon Har­ris (D), ob­tained by the Hot­line, showed his Rep. Tammy Duck­worth (D-08) lead­ing the primary with 64% of the vote. Former Urb­an League CEO An­drea Zo­pp (D) took 6%, and Har­ris took 3% (Feb. 4-7, 800 LPVs, +/-3.5%).

A memo to Har­ris from the poll­ster said, “Duck­worth is in a strong po­s­i­tion (prob­ably a little stronger than I would have guessed)” but “there is tech­nic­ally a path.”

Technically a path? He’s at 3 percent in his own poll. Hilarious.

The full poll is here. Harris even released the results of negative push questions on himself. For instance, 65 percent said they’d be less likely to support a candidate who did not support gay marriage. And 84 percent said they’d be less likely to support a candidate “who has been accused of underpaying their employees.”

Oof.

That “path” looks awful tiny to me.

* According to the poll, voters are gonna stick with Duckworth…

And on a scale from zero to one hundred percent, where 100 would mean you are absolutely certain and a 50 would mean you are unsure, what would you say are the chances you will end up supporting Tammy Duckworth in the Democratic primary election for U.S. Senate this March?

Very strong chance (90-100%) 64%
Strong chance (70-89%) 18%
Fair chance (51-69%) 4%
Even chance (50%) 13%
Don’t know/refused (0-49%) 2%

* Favorables…

Obama’s favorables are still huge among Democrats here, Rahm’s aren’t as bad as I thought they’d be and Harris and Zopp are almost non-entities.

* Presidential…

Hillary Clinton 54%
Bernie Sanders 31%
Other 2%
(Undecided) 11%
(Refused) 1%

* We don’t usually get full polls like this, so let’s look at some other things…

I am now going to read a few descriptions of different characteristics a candidate for U.S. Senate might have. Please rate each on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 means that characteristic is a very important characteristic for a candidate for Senate to have, and 0 means that characteristic is not important at all for a candidate for Senate to have. You may use any other number between 0 and 10.

The responses…

Illinois Democratic voters apparently say they want strong leaders who can bring people together. And they’re not much interested in state legislators, “outsiders” and those who own multiple businesses. Gee, I wonder why?

/snark

* And…

Now I am going to read you a series of statements supporters of candidates running for U.S. Senate have made. Please rate each on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 means that you agree strongly with that statement, and 0 means you do not agree with that statement at all. You may use any number between 0 and 10.

Responses…

Again, the state’s Democratic voters want people who aren’t afraid to compromise, aren’t anti-business but aren’t in the pockets of the business lobby.