Virginia Poll: Trump Cuts Lead in Half, Trails Clinton by 7 Points

Newsmax ^ | 22 Sep 2016 | Mark Swanson

[mandaladon]

Donald Trump cut Hillary Clinton's lead in half in the key battleground state of Virginia, but still trails by 7 points, according to the latest Roanoke College Poll.

The results of likely voters in Virginia:

Clinton: 44 percent Trump: 37 percent Gary Johnson: 8 percent Jill Stein: 1 percent Undecided: 9 percent In the August survey by Roanoke College, Clinton was leading Trump by 16 points. However, Trump ate into Clinton's hold on Independents, turning an 18-point lead last month into just an 8-point deficit in Thursday's poll, 37 percent to 29 percent.

The Roanoke College Poll interviewed 841 likely voters in Virginia from Sept. 11-20 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent.

[cpdiii]

Any poll conducted by any organization is absolute Bravo Sierra unless they show you the internals of the poll. Legitimate polling organizations have a reputation to build and maintain. They release the internals.

When I see a poll I immediately go to the bottom and read the interanls. If they do not show the internals I do not even bother to read the poll results.

[wright2bear]

True, before that we were Red - George Allen Red...Great governor.

[jmaroneps37]

Who ever believed Trump was down 14 in Virginia in the first place is an idiot. Trump will win Virginia.

[HamiltonJay]

I Never said VA is permanently blue.. what I said was in THIS election, where the people in NOVA are going to be hyper motivated to not rock the boat for pocket book reasons, they are about as motivated as you can get to show up to vote.... regardless of whether they hate hillary or not... they will show up to vote for their Pocketbooks/wallets.

Trump almost certainly can be perceived as a threat to the cushy ride, since he is an unknown... whereas Hillary is bought and sold by the old system and no matter what she does or doesn’t do if elected she isn’t any real threat to the system of graft and corruption and fraud and waste.

So, if in a state like VA, in an election like this, where NOVA is probably the most motivated people you are going to find to vote for Hillary, and she can’t hold it, then she isn’t fundamentally safe ANYWHERE.

In other election cycles, NOVA may still not want to rock the boat, but someone with R leanings would be more likely to vote R than they may be this election in those areas... because other elections the R would not be perceived as a direct threat to their wallet.

I am saying nothing about the PERMANENT status of VA, just about this election. If Hillary doesn’t hold VA.... .I don’t think she is going to hold much at all...

[HokieMom]

I don’t know — they change!

Try contacting them here:

http://fairfaxgop.org/contact/

On to victory!

[Robert A Cook PE]

The outer counties need to hold back all vote counts until Richmond, Fairfax county and Norfolk reports all 100 per cent...the cheats won’t know how many votes to manufacture!

Add Loundon County to those three: Was up there in Leesburg for three weeks.

[gr8eman]

Fairfax County! I watch it in real time very election.

[HokieMom]

Do You Know Selfies Are OK In Voting Booths?

Yes, you read that correctly. As outrageous as this sounds, the two Democrats on the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) voted this past June to approve selfie pictures to be taken inside the voting booth on Election Day. The one Republican on the SBE vehemently objected (SBE is a 3-member board). The sole purpose of Democrats wanting to pass this is so that people can take a selfie picture of themselves with their marked ballot next to their face. And the purpose of that is to provide positive evidence of who they voted for in order to be paid for their vote. Sounds crazy doesn't it? That's what I thought until I learned that Democrats have already been doing this exact thing in many other states.

This is absolute lunacy. And it is also against Virginia state law - to make a copy of a marked ballot - but the two Democrats are hoping that no one will notice until it's too late to take them to court to get this monstrosity reversed.

They claim taking a selfie is your First Amendment right. That is correct, but not inside the polling station to include a marked ballot next to your face. See the picture below that shows a selfie on the left, and a selfie with a marked ballot on the right.

The other head-shaking thing about this is that all smart phones have the ability to easily switch from taking a still picture to taking a video. How would you like to be photographed or video-taped in your polling station? Imagine the mayhem that could ensue with people taking pictures and videos in your voting precinct. This is totally nuts.

You can stop this from happening by contacting the two Democrats on the Virginia State Board of Elections, right now and many times over, until they reverse this terrible ruling. And spread the word on your email lists to get others to do the same.

The names and email addresses of the two Democrats are Mr. James B. Alcorn, j.alcorn@elections.virginia.gov, and Ms. Singleton B. McAllister, singleton.mcallister@elections.virginia.gov. The phone numbers for the Virginia State Board of Elections are 804-864-8944 and 804-624-7437.

And please contact your State Senators and Delegates, and anyone else who you know in political authority, to put an end to this idiocy.

Thank you.

Howie Lind

[nhwingut]

Gallup has Virgina (with leaners) as R+2.

This poll has it (with leaners) D+10. Which is a 12 point swing.

[LS]

With leaners. Got it.

[Red Steel]

Thanks for the info. Trump should take VA.

[HokieMom]

“Momentum: when 650 people show up in a wretched downpour of rain to see the Vice Presidential candidate, Gov. Mike Pence in Williamsburg. Virginia in play.”

Sandy Liddy Bourne’s facebook tonight