Poll: Virginia governor race a nailbiter

[UCmeNdc]

With less than a week until Election Day, Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe holds a slim lead over Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in a tightening race, according to a new poll on Wednesday.

McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli among likely voters 45 percent to 41 percent, with 9 percent for Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. The edge is within the poll’s margin of error.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/virginia-governor-race-ken-cuccinelli-terry-mcauliffe-poll-99080.html#ixzz2jCnpheHQ

[Mass]

1. Politico is pimping this poll. No surprise. And even it shows McAuliffe winning.

BTW, the MOE is 2.9%, so how is this poll within the MOE.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I thought that he had a double-digit lead?

What happened?

[bigdarryl]

3. This poll is TOTAL BULLSHIT!!! the VA polls has McAuliffe up at least 12 points

[leftynyc]

7. Actually

Quinnipiac has a very good record on state polls. I suspect Terry will win but it will be by 5 or 6 percentage points.

[mgcgulfcoast]

4. we have this in the bag

this must be an april fools poll. not concerned at all.

[djnicadress]

5. The media needs a horse race

The media always has play up every race like it's tightening are you telling the gender gap is gone? Remember last week The nj. senate race is tightening

[geek tragedy]

6. This is the bad outlier for us, and it shows McAuliffe ahead by 4 points nt

[UCmeNdc]

8. The greatest threat to a sweeping Democratic victory in Virginia, is complacency.

The greatest threat to a sweeping Democratic victory in Virginia, is complacency.

Hopefully this Quinnipiac poll, which is an outlier, will serve to warn Democratic voters against taking victory for granted. This, by the way, is precisely what Bill Clinton has been underscoring.

All sensible voters need to cast their ballot!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Amen! This is what Bill Clinton warned the other day. Anyone else in VA or surrounding

areas in D.C. or Maryland? Time to go our brothers and sisters out.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. I take nothing for granted! Nothing! Me and a few of my Maryland friends

will be traveling to VA this coming weekend.

We take NOTHING for granted. I do not trust VA voters. Yeah, they did alright in 2008 and 2012. But they fucked up royally in 2010.

It's the midterms, stupid! And when it comes to midterm elections, I trust no one! And certainly NO POLL!!!

[gopiscrap]

16. God, I wish I was close enough to help

[Downtown Hound]

10. Oh fer' Christs sake!

They said the same thing about Romney/Obama and McCain/Obama. The final results weren't even close.

The media loves to play this bullshit game.

[polichick]

12. Only if you call escorting Cuccinelli clear out of the state "a nailbiter."

[johnnyrak88]

13. I thought it was a 12pt spread? nt

[Dawson Leery]

14. The polling average as Terry at +9.

GOTV. The Democrats have activated OFA for the campaign.

[gopiscrap]

15. wtf it shouldn't even be close

cookoochunelli is such a fucking crazy shit, I would think he'd be radioactive to all but the christo-fascists and neo-birchers