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Hartford (WTNH) – In the race to keep his Senate seat, Senator Chris Dodd still has a long way to go. But according to a new poll, things are looking up.The senator’s numbers of support are on the rise; the problem for the five term senator is they had fallen incredibly low.

For Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, the new Quinnipiac University Poll is the proverbial glass half full. Actually, it’s not half full, it 38-percent full. Still not good. But, Quinnipiac’s Douglas Schwartz said, “He is doing better than he was.”

This is up from 33-percent in April just after the news broke about Dodd’s involvement in the AIG bonus controversy.

How did the senator, in the words of Quinnipiac’s Poll Director “stop the bleeding?”

“He certainly has been getting out there and talking to voters and he’s been getting credit for the credit card legislation that got passed,” said Schwartz.

That legislation put limits on interest credit card companies and can charge consumers.

The result for Dodd, in a head-to-head race against his top Republican challenger former Congressman Rob Simmons, is he now trails by six points. In April, Simmons led by-16.

That’s not to say Dodd is out of trouble. Not even close. According to Quinnipiac, when those polled were asked whether the senator was honest and trustworthy, 35-percent said he was.

In turn, 49-percent that were polled said he wasn’t. The numbers are befitting a politician in serious trouble, said Quinnipiac’s poll director. Still, Schwartz believes Dodd has time to turn things around.

“I do think he has time to recover. He is doing better,” he said. “We see movement in the poll. That is certainly good news for the senator that it’s going in the right direction for him.”