rssDemocrats Looking Like Losers in Virginia
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 11:23 am
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The new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia has two pieces of bad news for Democrats. The obvious one: In the gubernatorial race, State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is lagging 14 points behind Republican candidate Bob McDonnell, the state’s former attorney general. The worse news:
The 5% of John McCain’s voters planning to vote for Deeds is actually equal to the 5% of Barack Obama’s voters planning to vote for McDonnell. But Republicans, on a losing streak in Virginia, appear to be more motivated about heading to the polls at this point three months before the election.
The danger sign for Democrats is that when asked who they supported in 2008, 52 percent of voters said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and 41 percent said President Obama. The actual result in 2008? A 53-46 Obama victory. That suggests a dip in Democratic enthusiasm that will hurt the party down the ballot.
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Comment posted August 4, 2009 @ 8:03 pm
Dave, Is this snark? If not, this post does not make any sense. Are you trying to say that Virginia is actually the Bizarro World that Seinfeld spoke of on his show, where up is down, left is right, hello is good bye, those who say they''ll vote for the Democrat are actually going to vote for the republitard, even though during the '08 election the exact opposite was true, i.e., those who said they'd vote for the re-pubic hair actually voted for the Democrat?
This has got to be snark.
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