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As the Virginia governor's race enters its final week, Republican Bob McDonnell continues to hold a commanding lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Tuesday, when President Obama campaigned for Deeds.

The survey gave McDonnell, a former state Attorney General, a 54 percent to 41 percent advantage over Deeds, a state senator. That finding is consistent with the results of numerous other polls in the past week that gave McDonnell a double-digit lead.

According to the poll, which canvassed 1,000 registered voters who say they are likely to vote in the Nov. 3 election, 62 percent of respondents said that they had either a "very favorable" or "somewhat favorable" impression of McDonnell, compared to 30 percent who said they had an unfavorable impression of the Republican.