WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan leads his GOP competitor Stewart Mills by 11 points in a poll released Thursday, paid for by Democrats.
Mills, who just officially launched his campaign to unseat Nolan a couple of weeks ago, has some name recognition in the Eighth Congressional District since he unsuccessfully ran in 2014 for Nolan's seat. He lost by just a little more than 3,000 votes.
The poll, paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, surveyed 402 likely voters on Oct. 15 and 16. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus four points.
Nolan holds a 24 percent unfavorability rating in the district. That number for Mills was 10 points higher at 34 percent, according to the poll.
