Fifty-four percent of the registered voters surveyed said they would definitely vote to replace the Republican incumbent if the 2010 election were held today.
Just 11 percent said they would vote to re-elect him, while 30 percent would consider another candidate.
And:
With numbers like these, Gibbons basically has no chance, Mason-Dixon Managing Partner Brad Coker said.
"When you've got a majority of the voters already saying they're going to vote for anybody rather than you, you're in an impossible situation if you want to get re-elected," he said. "He would have problems even in a Republican primary, among his own people. I've never seen somebody recover from these kind of numbers."
The state GOP may try to pressure him to not seek re-election to avoid a catastrophe next year.
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