Posted on 09/01/2009 2:10:10 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Virginia gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell's 14-point lead in the Public Policy Polling's survey one month ago has been cut in half. PPP's new survey finds the Republican leading Democrat Creigh Deeds by 7 points (Aug. 28-31, 596 RV, MoE +/- 4.0%).
The survey was conducted over the last four days -- the last two days of the campaign have been filled with discussion about a graduate school thesis McDonnell wrote 20 years ago, which was reported in a front page Washington Post story on Sunday.
McDonnell's favorable rating is unchanged from last month (54% down to 53%), though his unfavorable rating is up 5 points (26% to 31%). Deeds's favorable and unfavorable ratings are both up.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Frickin’ Wash Post.
With odumbo as the resident instead of Pres Bush this will be no macaca moment
This may sink McDonnell. MSNBC has been hammering this too. McDonnell is in major trouble.
Everyone complains about negative campaigning.
But the bottom line is that it works.
Time for McDonnell to start whacking Deeds.
The Washington Post is shameless, absolutely shameless.
Notice how the same libs who accept that Byrd changed his views don’t believe we should accept that McDonnell has also changed his views.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWZlOWU1MjBlOWE3Njk2MmJjNzQ1OGMyMjk4ZDA1ODk=
More fundamentally, Deeds’s perception of what’s best for his district shifted dramatically leftward when he started preparing to run for governor. He knew that to win the Democratic primary, he would have to appeal to voters in the significantly more liberal northern suburbs. During his run for attorney general in 2005, by contrast, he won the nomination without a primary, so he could tailor his message for a bipartisan statewide audience all along. Deeds’s ads that year touted his “conservative values”: teaching abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage as “moral obligations and not matters of personal opinion or personal choice”; putting before the voters a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage; broadly defined Second Amendment rights; and a ban on partial-birth abortion. Now he says supporting the gay-marriage vote was “a mistake,” he opposes all limits on abortion, and he supports closing the “gun show loophole” on firearms sales, citing the Virginia Tech shootings — even though the shooter in that tragedy did not purchase his weapons at a gun show, so even if the proposed restriction had been in effect, it would not have prevented the massacre. It is unlikely that the Creigh Deeds of 2005 would recognize the Creigh Deeds of 2009, much less vote for him.
He is still ahead in the polls. And he is a skilled campaigner. I want to know what the McDonnell people are doing to fight back. The whole thing makes me sick.
But don't worry. He'll still get my vote.
I have no hope for a Republican win anymore. It's always the same, Dems catching up late in the race then miraculously pulling ahead. MSM campaigning all out for them. And they'll get millions of dollars donated from whoever.
Then the election will be close but the Dems will pull it out with votes from some car trunk, dead people, whatever. I am so sick of it.
Will he have enough votes to win though?
So you think McDonnell is toast too?
Let’s wait a few days and see.
Let’s wait a few days and see.
Deeds is probably a Communist. Hit him with that.
It depends on how many things the left will make him run away from and apologize for between now and November.
One is too many. Never see Democrats do it. One of the many reasons why the GOP is the Stupid Party.
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