A new SurveyUSA poll shows independent candidate Greg Orman leading Kansas Republican senator Pat Roberts by one point, 37 to 36 percent. After Democratic candidate Chad Taylor announced he would withdraw from the race, Orman surged 17 percent in the new poll compared with SurveyUSA’s previous survey, completed August 23.

Taylor will likely still be on the ballot (he’s reportedly filed a petition with the Kansas Supreme Court to have his name removed) even though he has said he’ll stop campaigning and drop out of the race. SurveyUSA included him in the poll, and he drew 10 percent of the vote.

Before Taylor ended his campaign in an apparent attempt to unite Roberts opponents around Orman, a wealthy businessman who’s partly funding his own campaign, Roberts was consistently ahead in the polls.

Orman has been registered as a Republican, Democrat, and an independent, according to the Wichita Eagle, and has not committed to caucusing with either Republicans or Democrats. If he wins, the Eagle reported Orman has said he will caucus with whichever side wins the majority, although he appears to have the support of national Democrats. If neither party wins a majority, he reportedly will work with the side he deems most dedicated to a “problem-solving, nonpartisan agenda.”