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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Murray credited the shift in part to Gillespies controversial ad campaign painting his opponent
as soft on crime, and accusing him of enabling the MS-13 gang."
Here we fucking go again!"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-governor-close-race-polls_us_59e65446e4b0d0e4fe6b94f7
Two surveys released Tuesday give the Democratic candidate, Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a modest edge over Ed Gillespie, the Republican former chair of the Republican National Committee. One poll, from Christopher Newport University, puts Northam up by 4 points ― the first time, the pollsters note, that theyve found his lead within the margin of error. The other, from Roanoke College, gives him a 6-point advantage. Both are in keeping with previous surveys of the race, which have largely found Northam ahead, but far from comfortably so.
A third poll, from Monmouth University, shows Northam taking 47 percent to Gillespies 48 percent. That the poll shows Northam underwater for the first time isnt in itself especially significant, beyond indicating that the race is indeed tight. Several previous surveys, including a July Monmouth poll, found the two men tied. But the new results represent a downturn for Northam from the outlets previous poll, which gave him a 5-point edge.
This has never been more than a five point race in Monmouths polling, and that means either candidate has a very real shot at winning this thing, Patrick Murray, Monmouths polling director, said in a statement. We have seen lots of little movement that has either helped or hurt each candidate but with neither one being able to break out.
Murray credited the shift in part to Gillespies controversial ad campaign painting his opponent as soft on crime, and accusing him of enabling the MS-13 gang.
coolsandy
(479 posts)liskddksil
(2,753 posts)Likely as much as an outlier as Monmouth is the other way.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Whoever gets their base motivated enough to vote will win. Gillespie is running ads say Northam wants to spend millions of dollars taking down Confederate monuments. "Ralph Northam thinks the most important issue facing Virginia is Confederate monuments." I fear this may resonate with their base. I have said in several posts; I don't understand why Northam is not running this ad in heavy rotation. I have seen it once. Gillespie wins and we'll Bathroom laws, further abortion restrictions, destruction of the Public Education system, rigging the Judicial appointments, and gerrymandered districts.