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With yawning gender and racial gaps, Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam holds a 51 42 percent likely voter lead over Republican Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governors race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Libertarian Cliff Hyra has 3 percent.
Todays result compares to a 53 36 percent likely voter lead for Northam in an October 30 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
Non-white likely voters back the Democrat 71 20 percent, with 4 percent for Hyra. White voters back the Republican 50 44 percent, with 3 percent for Hyra. Women back Northam 61 33 percent, with 1 percent for Hyra. Men back Gillespie 52 40 percent, with 5 percent for Hyra. Independent voters are divided with 46 percent for Northam, 42 percent for Gillespie and 6 percent for Hyra. Democrats back Northam 96 3 percent, with less than 1 percent for Hyra. Republicans back Gillespie 92 5 percent, with less than 2 percent for Hyra.
Republican Ed Gillespie is closing Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northams lead, but Gillespie still has a ways to go and only 24 hours to get there, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. A good sign for Gillespie is that in the last two weeks he has cut Lt Gov. Northam's 14-point lead among independents, the key bloc of voters, to a statistical tie. But any hopes that the Republicans have for victory will require their candidate to accomplish the Herculean task of making up a deep, 28-point deficit among women.
https://mgtvwric.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/quinnipiac-university-poll.pdf
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(14,400 posts)I really like to see it up above 50%.