Breaking: Hillary opens 16% lead against Trump in Virginia

[molova]

A new Roanoke poll finds Hillary is slaughtering Don the Con by 16% in VA.
http://www.roanoke.edu/about/news/rc_poll_aug_2016_politics

[Gothmog]

1. Virginia is not a swing state any longer

[NewJeffCT]

2. No, definitely not

Texas, Arizona, Georgia and South Carolina are more "swing" states this year than Virginia.

[DemonGoddess]

3. K&R!

[aeroman]

4. Hopefully this has coattails

Would be nice to be able to pickup some extra House seats with these big leads.

[Hortensis]

17. I did a quick search for VA down-ballots and didn't

see any big ones, federal or state. Hillary's stopped running ads there because she's doing good, which maybe also suggests there are no significant seats to help pick up.

The statement not a swing state apparently swings both ways in this case.

[aeroman]

18. Heavily Gerrymandered

Virginia like most other states is probably heavily gerrymandered. Hopefully, Hillary's potential 6-3 SCOTUS will change that in the future across the country!!

[Hortensis]

19. Oh, I hope! Gerrymandering is profoundly

anti-democratic and should be completely illegal.

[gademocrat7]

5. Good news.

[five_horizons]

6. Great news, but a weird number in the crosstabs...

Trump did best among 18-29 years olds
Clinton 34%
Trump 30%

Has that been the case in other polls? Just doesn't sound right.

[klook]

14. 18-29 is Trump's second worst age bracket in this poll.

He did best among voters 65+.

[underpants]

12. I grew up just down the road from the 'burg

Interesting insight.

[writes3000]

8. Hurrah!

[KMOD]

9. wowee

Virginia is for lovers!

[Chicago1980]

10. It was after 1967.

[treestar]

11. Good news

Running mate pick helps too no doubt.

[barbtries]

13. yeah.

what worries me more than anything is the way the media tries to make it a horse race by presenting trump's campaign as if it is a serious or viable thing.

[Demsrule86]

15. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such good news. The GOP are in a world of hurt without Virginia.

[progressoid]

16. Holy moly.