Posted on 07/31/2016 11:43:00 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Republican nominee Donald J. Trump holds a 4-point lead over Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton in the critical state of Virginia and just outside the margin of error, a new RABA Research poll shows.
Among the poll of 655 likely voters in Virginia, Trump holds a 46%-42% lead over Clinton, despite her pick of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.
Voters are split on Kaine, with 40% of respondents saying they are more likely to vote for Clinton based on the pick, versus 34% who are less likely to support her and 26% stating it makes no difference.
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Hillary was ahead in Virginia before she picked Kaine.
With her it’s one dumb decision after another.
Oh yes.
But...but...the media said...
How reliable is this poll? Because didnt this same poll say that Clinton is ahead by 15 nationally which is total BS..both cant be accurate..I dont think Kaine helped Clinton at all but Northern Virginia is a Dem cess pool
ha ha, good job, Shrillary!!
Kaine must also be having second thoughts. As one FReeper posted:
Kaine always looks like he's thinking, "what the hell am I doing here?"
Don’t blow this, Mr. Trump. The United states will not survive a Hillary Clinton presidency, certainly not as a constitutional republic (and maybe not as a nation at all).
I don’t believe it - but if Trump takes Virginia, it’s “game over man.”
"I flacked her on AF One and she lost four points.
This frickin' faked pose oughta be good for a lousy point."
How can Trump have a lead in a major battleground state, when the latest national poll has Hillary far ahead???
Or was that the poll, by Reuters, I belive? in which they changed the methodology of the poll so they could show Hillary in the lead????
No way Hillary can have a lead nationwide, but be falling this far behind in a key battleground state such as Virginia.
Granted that polls are a small sample, and are a snapshot of a point in time. But polls should not be fundamentally at odds with each other. If the national poll showing Hillary ahead is accurate, then Hillary should also be ahead in the state of Virginia.
That great Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, in his Letter to Peter Carr, left great advice for someone like Hillary:
When your mind shall be well improved with science, nothing will be necessary to place you in the highest points of view, but to pursue the interests of your country, the interests of your friends, and your own interests also, with the purest integrity, the most chaste honor.
“The defect of these virtues can never be made up by all the other acquirements of body and mind. Make these then your first object.
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.
“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
“Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises; being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.
“If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circumstances, out of which you are at a loss how to extricate yourself, do what is right, and be assured that that will extricate you the best out of the worst situations.
“Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth, in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one, will untie itself before you. Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed.
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. - (Excerpted from Thomas Jeffersons Letter to young Peter Carr, August 19, 1785)”
Kaine is a real pussy. Plus he has a pot belly hanging over his belt. He reminds me of a pedophile priest.
How reliable is this poll?
good question...just this morning I was reading here how RABA was nothing but a bunch of kooks, owing to the poll you just referenced...
so, this poll must be meaningless as well, right...?
Im happy that he is leading in this poll just hope its reliable..heck I think the ONLY reliable poll is on Election Day..but with all the voter fraud that will take place who knows how reliable that will even be
A better pick would have been Virginia’s other senator, John Warner. He is much better liked and respected here in Virginia than Tim Kaine. Cant see how he will help her.
Kane and Hillary should start speaking Hindi, Telugu, Tamil in Virginia. Spanish is not very helpful.
I am very happy with the results of this poll, but RABA Research stretches all credulity with their results of the national poll which has Shrillary leading by 15% and Trump losing Independents and men,
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