Posted on 07/24/2017 3:56:59 PM PDT by HokieMom
A new poll shows Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph S. Northam tied in the November race for governor, a significant improvement for Gillespie over a poll last month showing him trailing Northam by 8 points.
They each have support from 44 percent of Virginia voters, with Libertarian Cliff Hyra at 3 percent and another 9 percent undecided, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday. A Quinnipiac University poll in June had Northam up by 8.
Monmouth University's Polling Institute also found that low approval ratings for President Donald Trump may be hurting Gillespie, because if Trump were not a factor some Northam voters would swing to undecided.
"A small but crucial portion of Northam's support is coming from voters who are primarily anti-Trump," Patrick Murray, director of the polling institute, said in a press release. "Unless one of the candidates breaks out with a clear advantage on Virginia-centric issues, the president could wind up as a decisive factor in the outcome."
Voters said health care was the top issue they wanted Northam and Gillespie to address.
Republicans were elated by the poll and said it countered the idea that the GOP had not rallied around Gillespie after he narrowly lost a June primary to Corey Stewart, who ridiculed him during their campaign.
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“Not a matter of surrender, it is a reality.”
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Well, it sounds like you’re SUBMITTING to your ‘RAT overlords in Virginia. Enjoy your dhimmitude.
As for me, I’ll continue the fight.
Where do you live? I don’t live in VA any more.
Not at all. While Corey went big time negative in the primary, Ed played a bit of rope-a-dope and has not insulted the Corey people. He goes into the general without having trod the "low ground." The Dems have spent the last year and will spend the next 7 trying to paint every Pubbie with a Trump hue. That Gillespie did not full-up support Trump in the primary actually gives him more flexibility now.
You have Republicans in now and the result is they won’t do anything period except whatever their good friends not too far across the aisle want.
Since 1998, other than Gorsuch and Alito the Republican congress hasn’t been worth a damn. They are not rolling anything back, but slowly implementing the progressive agenda.
You are arguing going over the cliff at 20mph vs. 100mph is important yet the destination at the bottom, the jagged rocks and certain death is the same.
Yes, the Democrat plant.
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