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BY JASON LE MIERE ON 10/28/17 AT 9:00 AM
... "Not only is there the normal referendum issue going on here, it's extra weighted because of the blowback to Donald Trump," Dr. Rachel Bitecofer, the assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Virginia's Christopher Newport University which has done extensive polling on the race and on Trump's impact told Newsweek Thursday. "Democratic voters are far more enthusiastic to cast ballots than their Republican counterparts are, and it's a product of a backlash to Donald Trump."
Trump's approval rating in the state, which he lost to Hillary Clinton by five points in 2016, is at a lowly 33 percent, a bit below where he stands nationally. Such a figure is unheard of for a president just nine months after taking office.
Gillespie could well pay the price. Thirty-two percent of likely voters in Virginia said Trump would be a factor in their vote for governor, according to a Wason Center poll, with 20 percent saying he was a major factor. For many in Virginia, the election offers a first chance to offer a clear rebuke of what is taking place in Washington. Twenty-eight percent of those polled said their votes would be messages of disapproval for Trump, compared to 17 percent who said they were planning to cast ballots as signals of support ...
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-virginia-governors-race-694714
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)Every candidate paired with a picture of Trump
Of course that will help the candidate in some states but hopefully not most.
msongs
(67,405 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I don't have the energy to decipher and rationalize. Winners don't need to do that.
blue-wave
(4,352 posts)to win back the majorities we deserve are just ahead of us. Let's keep the momentum going.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Doesn't mean that there still can't be shenanigans, but they should be a lot harder to pull off, and less successful in general.