Posted on 10/30/2013 7:47:21 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
With less than a week until Election Day, Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe holds a slim lead over Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in a tightening race, according to a new poll on Wednesday.
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli among likely voters 45 percent to 41 percent, with 9 percent for Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. The edge is within the poll’s margin of error.
The poll also found that if Sarvis were not in the race, likely voters would split for McAuliffe 47 percent to 45 percent, which Quinnipiac describes as “too close to call.”
Last week, Quinnipiac polling showed McAuliffe up 46 percent to 39 percent.
Four percent of likely voters are still undecided, and 7 percent of those who chose a candidate said they might change their mind.
Only 62 percent of voters who chose Sarvis said they would definitely vote for him, with 18 percent saying the were likely to change their minds.
McAuliffe leads by double digits among women and independents, with Cuccinelli holding a 6 point lead among men.
With Nov. 5 falling on an off-election year, experts say turnout will be key to who wins the election on Tuesday.
Quinnipiac surveyed 1,182 likely voters from Oct. 22 to 28 for the poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
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There’s no way a Libertarian candidate gets 9% of the vote. The last time there was a Libertarian candidate for governor, that candidate got less than 1% of the vote.
Prayers from Texas.
If Virginia elects this thug, they DESERVE to suffer the consequences. If they cannot see what Obama has done to the nation, then what this puke does to the state is a self inflicted wound. So, shut up and suffer your consequences of your stupid vote. They will regret this.
Excellent!
seven days out from an election and you are tanking in the polls.........doesn’t bode well for Mcawful!!! Have a sneaky feeling his prier poll numbers were BS!!!!
Oh, we know. McAss contaminated Austin for 10 years. Sorry to see he’s chosen your fine state to setup Satan’s new ring for him.
Thx!
What sweet poetic justice: McCauliffe was betting on the Government shut-down hurting KC. Now, the Obama Care debacle with all the lies and cancelled health plans has been timed perfectly to hurt TM. Couldn’t happen to a better jerk.
Ken, should quickly reach out to those people in VA who have lost their insurance under Obamacare. There should be approximately 425,000 of them. In the state if the numbers average out.
That would be a great hit. Nail Obama head on. Nullify his influence with reality.
Will do. This victory will kill the rest of Obama’s term. Their morale will be gone and done, plus we win Congress back in 2014.
Spot on and I’m glad to hear it. Will Sarvis quit and break for Ken?
Libertains!
Just this once vote for the Republican to PREVENT a Marxist from ruling in your state. Your not voting FOR a Republican as much as you are voting AGAINST the current regime of Marxists.
Libertains!
Just this once vote for the Republican to PREVENT a Marxist from ruling in your state. Your not voting FOR a Republican as much as you are voting AGAINST the current regime of Marxists.
This is even better news when one realizes that the poll was taken BEFORE it was exposed that Terry’s buddy, B. Obama, lied about people being able to keep their Health Plan.
You hit the nail on the head: A win for KC would be a slap in the face to Obama and a strong rebuke of his Affordable Health Care Act. YES!!! This election is of extreme national importance.
For the last week, weather.com has said only a 10% chance of rain all over VA on Nov. 5th.
Prayers for Ken Cuccinelli.
BTTT!
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