Amid tightening polls (which Ballot Box's excellent analyst Josh Goodman attributes to a delayed reaction to the McDonnell thesis), it is likely that Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell would dearly love to change the subject.
Thanks to one of the most amazing political videos you'll ever see, and the speaker's bond with...
Has it really been six weeks since we last polled Virginia?
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 9/14-16. Likely voters. MoE 4% (8/3-5 results)
Deeds (D) 43 (43)
McDonnell (R) 50 (51)
Creigh Deeds (D)
Favorable 47 (46)
Unfavorable 42...
Clarus Research Group, conducted from September 10-14, 2009. Survey of 600 registered voters (margin of error: +/- 4%):
Bob McDonnell (R) 42
Creigh Deeds (D) 37
Undecided 20
This result is slightly closer than some other recent polls on the race, which have ranged from 7-12 points. It also...
Creigh Deeds finally starts to show a little fight in the Virginia governor's race.
The moribund Virginia governor's race, where Democrat Creigh Deeds faded into irrelevance following his upset primary victory, has been shaken by the emergence of Republican Bob McDonnell's law school thesis (PDF) from Liberty University.
At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for...
For the entire campaign, Virginia Democrats, led by their nominee for Governor (Creigh Deeds), have alleged that Bob McDonnell is not a mainstream conservative. Rather, they claimed, he is an ultra-conservative, especially on social and moral issues, who is concealing his real agenda in order to get elected.
Normally, this can be dismissed as...
There are two races for governor in 2009: Virginia and New Jersey.
Last week, Barack Obama and Tim Kaine rallied support for Virginia's Democratic nominee, Creigh Deeds.
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The polls have swung back and forth in the Virginia governor's race when it comes to whether it's close or not, and now a new Washington Post survey of likely voters, conducted Sept. 14-17, comes down on the side of...