In this year's race for Virginia governor, a new survey says Republican Bob McDonnell has opened up a double-digit lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds.
The poll was taken after McDonnell and Deeds held their first debate last Saturday.
Va. Gov: McDonnell Leads Deeds By 15, Survey Says
McDonnell is winning 88 percent of Republicans and Deeds is winning 86 percent of Democrats, but McDonnell is crushing Deeds among self-described political independents by a margin of 60 percent to 35 percent.
Though McDonnell is strongly opposed to abortion, he is winning 35 percent of voters who describe their stance on that issue as "pro-choice."
The election is Nov. 3.
-Greg Giroux
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If this poll IS accurate, what the hell happened? Did Deeds lay an egg in the debate? I haven't seen it.
Lets wait for some collaboration from other polling before we stick a fork in this race. SurveyUSA is a little shaky, kinda like Zogby & Rasmussen.
Posted by: NObama
| July 29, 2009 10:30 PM
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