Posted on 04/28/2009 1:48:19 PM PDT by GOPGuide
A new poll gives Terry McAuliffe a double digit lead over Brian Moran and Creigh Deeds, his Democratic rivals for Governor.
But a majority of likely Democratic voters who responded to the News7 SurveyUSA poll say they may still change their mind.
But the bad news for all of the Democrats, Republican Bob McDonnell leads each of them in general election match-ups, though Deeds is closest with a difference of five percentage points.
Here is a look at the results:
Asked of 409 likely Democratic primary voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.9%
If the Democratic Primary for Virginia Governor were today, who would you vote for? (candidate names rotated) Creigh Deeds? Terry McAuliffe? Or Brian Moran?
22% Deeds 38% McAuliffe 22% Moran 18% Other / Undecided
Asked of 1396 registered voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 2.7%
Regardless of what you told us about the June 9th primary, thinking ahead now to the GENERAL election in November... If the only two names on the ballot for Governor of Virginia were Republican Bob McDonnell and ... Democrat Creigh Deeds, who would you vote for?
44% McDonnell (R) 39% Deeds (D) 17% Undecided
Asked of 1396 registered voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 2.7%
What if the only two names on the November ballot were ... Bob McDonnell and Democrat Terry McAuliffe?
46% McDonnell (R) 39% McAuliffe (D) 15% Undecided
Asked of 1396 registered voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 2.7%
What if it was Bob McDonnell against Democrat Brian Moran?
46% McDonnell (R) 34% Moran (D) 19% Undecided
The three Democrats are debating at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville Tuesday night. There's just six weeks until the June 9 primary.
News7's Joe Dashiell will have highlights from the debate in Danville on News7 at 10 & 11.
We have a good shot at sweeping VA, and NJ this year.
Shouldn’t Hussein Obama be pulling Corzine and McAuliffe towards victory?
;)
This guy is a rabid dog that needs to be beaten...
these people are not even qualified for these jobs. What is it going to take for these people to wake. the whole country is in a coma.
I cannot believe VA Democrats would be that moronic to nominate the toxic McAuliffe. Deeds would be the strongest candidate for them (since he likely gets NOVA in the bag and gets some rural support, too - although Deeds lost narrowly to McDonnell in ‘05). I still worry about internecine fighting in the GOP in the Old Dominion. We have a nasty habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and if we got for a three-fer, we’re going to lose the upper hand for redistricting, and the rodents will skull-f*** us into permanent minority status after we held 2/3rds of the legislature not even a whole decade ago.
As for NJ, if Corzine continues to trail against whichever R goes up, they might have to have a “Come to Jesus” moment to clear him out in favor of Dick Codey.
Hmm, maybe a couple of suitcase n-bombs set off by our Mohammadan terrorist friends along with a side-order of bacteriological warfare (Oink-Flu, et al). All that fun stuff. And, hey, it’ll be fantastic to see the False One huddled in a cave with yellow-stained pants clinging to TOTUS for dear life crying out to mommie.
King Corzine is an egomaniac who will never give up the nomination, especially when you consider he can sefl finance till the cows come home.
Of course this is NJ, and it is possible the Dems will call in a Tony Soprano type to explain to Corzine the facts of life, but still, Corzine is powerful and selfish enough that he has the nomination.
Torricelli was an even bigger egomaniac and they got him out of the way. They’ll find a way to get Corzine out of the way if necessary. People like him have skeletons, they all do. The rodents are always better at taking out their tainted people a lot better than we are. For a party that has absolutely no sense of morality or ethics, it’s a lot easier for ‘em.
“and they got him out of the way.”
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Torch.
Those guys at “waste management” are pretty persuasive, huh?
Who do you think is weaker, McCauliffe or Moran?
I think McAuliffe because he was a Clinton money bagman and who knows how many skeletons he’s got in the closet.
George Allen was way ahead of Jim Webb. VA is going to be tight and tough. Clinton and Obama will be campaigning heavily here. Gov Kaine is the current DNC chair. If anything, the Reps are the underdogs, given the massive influence of Fairfax County and the rest of Northern VA.
George Allen was way ahead of Jim Webb.
Yes but still don’t think VA is THAT Democrat, Allen lost in a wave election.
2006 and 2008 were just terrible years for every Republican in the country.
“VA Democrats would be that moronic to nominate the toxic McAuliffe.”
VA Democrats have LITTLE to do with it...
It’s the power of the Thunder Road Group and it’s associated Orgs and PACS like Morons.Org, Center For American Progress that are pushing McCauliffe forward.
He’s another Democrat that “Magicly” got filthy stinkin’ rich by “Serving” on a variety of cash-cow PAC boards, and made a mint while Global Crossing was ripping off it’s investors with cooked books.
Oh, exactly. I’m just saying if the Dems REALLY want to win this, they need to go with a home-grown candidate. McAuliffe is a world-class wackjob and carpetbagger. Moran isn’t much better, though.
GLOBAL CROSSING
keep up the mantra
Torricelli was under a federal investigation (from CNN.com):
“Torricelli’s race had once been viewed as an easy win for his party, but Republicans have successfully made the incumbent’s ethics troubles — stemming from illegal 1996 campaign donations and questionable gifts — a campaign issue this year.”
“The Torch” was damaged goods, Corzine is not the subject of any federal investigation, he’s just a liberal idiot who happens to be the worst public speaker and debater I’ve ever seen. Go Chris Christie!!!
Deeds is strongest, Moran after that (but I think he’d be a turn-off outside NOVA), and McAuliffe the most toxic and divisive. Anyone that ran the DNC in the last few decades is inherently corrupt. Look what they did to Ron Brown when he decided he wasn’t going to go to jail for that honkey Bubba.
In the end McCauliffe will probably buy the nomination, although it will probably be close between him and Moran. I can’t wait for the carpetbagger from Rochester, NY to debate McDonnell. Go Bob!!!
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