Here is the link to the new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll on Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial primary race. The bottom line numbers (April 6-8 results in parentheses):Terry McAuliffe: 36% (19%)
Brian Moran: 22% (24%)
Creigh Deeds: 13% (16%)
That's a 17 point gain by Terry since early April, a 2 point decline by Brian, and a 3 point decline by Creigh.
And here's some commentary by Kos:
*"A pretty dramatic gain for McAuliffe in the last six weeks for an election that will be decided in about three weeks (June 9), while Deeds and Moran essentially tread water."
*"...while Moran has remained steady and while Deeds has edged back, McAuliffe has managed to move his favorability numbers forward despite an increasingly negative primary."
*"While the Dems have all lost ground in their favorability ratings, McDonnell has been able to stay above the fray, edging his slight higher (a net +3). And at +20, he has a big advantage over the the -1 net favorability ratings of Moran and Deeds, and -3 of McAuliffe."In other words, when this primary is over, we're going to have our work cut out for us beating Bob McDonnell. Certainly we can do it, but we're going to have to work out butts off.
P.S. What ever happened to Creigh Deeds' momentum, as indicated in yesterday's SurveyUSA poll?
