George Allen increases lead over James Webb in Virginia Senate Race poll: 50-44%
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The latest poll by Survey USA has released a new poll tonight done for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke on the Virginia Senate Race. The question was: "If the election for United States Senator were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for?"
The result was:
George Allen: 50%
James Webb: 44%
That's a two point increase in Allen's numbers since the SUSA poll released on Wednesday.
Update: Mason-Dixon has a much different result:
Allen: 43%
Webb: 43%
With these two conflicting results, it seems as if Allen probably has a very slight lead. My guess is that if the best that James Webb can do reach a TIE with Allen after the horrible weeks that Allen has had, then this bodes well for Allen. Also, the fact that the SUSA had only 6% undecided and Mason-Dixon had 12% undecided means that when SUSA when pressed them to decide one way or the other (see the question above), the leaners went with Allen.
I can't believe Allen is this close and I personally thought he was the best Republican for 2008, not anymore of course. Webb has momentum but that will likely shift back and forth. My last thought is that I thought Allen was saying he was planning a positive campaign? Is he going back on that now because of the Allen is a racist campaign?
Virginia is not Utah or South Carolina, most races here get competetive. Allen won his last race against chuck robb by 4 points (52-48), Warner won his race against mark warner 52-47, Robb beat Ollie North 46 to 43. If you were expecting some 10-20 point margin here, your in the wrong state.
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The real power of the Allen drama is that it serves to remind Americans that the white southern establishment switched from D to R only 40 years ago.
what this points out is how the northern burbs of Virginia have added a lot of people from DC / maryland who are Democrats.
Don't forget that Jim Webb is going to have a lot of explaining to do with George Allen's new ad airing about Webb's anti-woman past.