Democrat Eric Stewart’s campaign says their new poll shows the 4th Congressional District hopeful in a statistical “dead heat” with Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais. Pollster Andrew Myers said the survey of 400 likely voters shows DesJarlais, a Jasper physician, leading State Sen. Stewart of Winchester by 49-45 percent. The pollster says that it’s now a “dead heat” because it falls within the poll’s 4.9 percent margin of error. The polling was conducted Sunday and Monday in the wake of revelations that DesJarlais in 2000 encouraged a former patient with whom he had had a sexual relationship to get an abortion.
In transcripts the pro-life congressman states that he wants the unnamed woman to get an ultrasound.
