You should not change the title.
The polling was over a weekend. They said they interviewed 1000 residents and culled that for likely voters. They said the margin was +/- 5%. That means that they got well less than half of their sample being likely voters (they don't say how many voters were likely). And that's just the Maryland numbers. Others may be much worse. I am suspecting sloppy polling here, the Virginia numbers don't add up to other polls.
Is this the same AP poll that had 16% more dems than republicans they were polling.
The Gallup polls show a huge RAT surge. It could either be (1)that the polls way oversampled RATS over or (2) Nov is going to be a depressing night everywhere.
For the moment, I'm inclined to believe (1). Other polls show a deadlock race for Corker vs Ford. Plus another Gallup poll has Allen leading only by 3.