Another day, another new poll.“The race has definitely tightened,” said Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage. “Virginia is still very much a state that is up for grabs.”Not bad, but it would be nice if one of these polls would actually show Creigh in the lead for once!
The poll showed stronger party support for Deeds than McDonnell. Eighty-nine percent of Democrats said they back Deeds, compared to 79 percent of Republicans who would vote for McDonnell. Among Independents, McDonnell leads by a significant margin, 55-33 percent.
Deeds holds a narrow 48-45 percent lead among women voters, whom the Democrat’s campaign has targeted intensely in the wake of news stories about McDonnell’s 1989 master’s thesis, which advocated a number of controversial social conservative stances.
UPDATE: This poll was of registered voters, not likely voters. I'm not sure what to make of that exactly, but it seems to me that a "likely voter" poll would be a bit less favorable to Creigh Deeds than a "registered voter" poll.
