Aug 6, 2009 – being seen as a harbinger of next year's midterm elections, Republicans are leading in this year's two gubernatorial races in Virginia … There is now a body of polling data to suggest that the generic congressional ballot has closed," said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor … make it difficult for the party to hold onto the gains it made in the 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections," the respected polling…

Aug 2, 2009 – RealClearPolitics shows McDonnell as 6.3 percentage points in the lead, based on aggregate polling data. … The Virginia Beach and Richmond areas also have favored Republicans since Nixon. … Obama's victory in Virginia was hugely related to high black voter turnout, especially in the Virginia Beach area.…

Aug 13, 2009 – The contests for statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia are the best referenda the country could ask for on Obamacare, and Congress … Recent polls show that Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia leads his opponent Creigh Deeds by double digits. … Polling on the health care scheme being pushed on the country show its support plummeting and opposition soaring.…

Aug 9, 2009 – Yesterday, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell gave the GOP response to President Obama's weekly address.  … McDonnell gave the address only a few days after Obama attended a campaign event for McDonnell's opponent in Virginia, one of the two … "In Virginia, where Democrat R.…

Aug 9, 2009 – Jon Corzine, running in one of two (Virginia is the other) off-year gubernatorial elections. … RealClearPolitics’ average of recent polling shows a 51-39 lead for Christie.…

Sep 24, 2009 – Florida, Virginia and North Carolina all went for George W. Bush in 2004 and then for Barack Obama four years later. … Current polling suggests that Republican candidates that run on a platform of "less is more" won't necessarily be seen as being negative … Early polling shows that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a likeable new player in GOP politics.…

Oct 9, 2009 – The Virginia race does not merely reflect national trends; it will help determine those trends. … No Virginia Democrat would have picked such a strategy before the campaign began. … In Virginia, neither Obama's charm nor culture-war attacks seem to be working.…

Oct 27, 2009 – At a recent campaign stop at the Eden Center, a Vietnamese strip mall in Falls Church, Virginia, McDonnell visited no less than half … He also loves the votes: an estimated 20,000 Vietnamese Americans reside in Virginia, most in the northern region from where McDonnell … The charge is that McDonnell’s transportation plan sucks money from Virginia schools.…

Oct 26, 2009 – The latest Washington Post poll — which has given the most conservative estimates of McDonnell's lead throughout the Virginia gubernatorial … That's up from a 7 point lead when the Post first started polling in August, and four points ahead after the smoking gun thesis the … The survey also said that 7 out of 10 likely Virginia voters have no confidence that President Obama's eleventh-hour campaign appearance…

Oct 25, 2009 – RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the direction of the … Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia appear to be heading in different directions but are, in fact, two sides of the same … In Virginia, a state that swung first in 2006 to Democrat Jim Webb in his Senate race then further to Obama in 2008, Republican Bob…

Nov 6, 2009 – machines in Washington, D.C., neither party lost in the recently concluded off-year elections held in New Jersey, New York and Virginia … We’ll see, but Republicans and Democrats should consider this: Three weeks before election day Hoffman was polling at 16% with less…

Nov 5, 2009 – trillion-plus dollar deficits, are all adding up in voters’ minds,” said Ed Goeas, President and CFO of The Tarrance Group, a Republican polling … Independents went to Republican Bob McDonnell over Democrat Creigh Deeds 63-36% in Virginia, and independents voted for Republican…

Nov 4, 2009 – One of the big lessons indicates that when it comes to issues of homosexuality, polling is utterly unreliable—there’s almost always … Even though Bob McDonnell in Virginia is a principled, articulate conservative, he campaigned as a problem solver and pragmatist, and…

Nov 3, 2009 – Governors in New Jersey and Virginia. … It appeared that she had conceded her votes to Conservative Party candate Doug Hoffman, who had been polling double-digits ahead of … Deeds has resorted to last-minute Obama PR, with the President swooping in and trying to hustle up the black vote in southern Virginia…

Oct 28, 2009 – The two races that will deservedly garner the most attention next Tuesday are the elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia … Since his announcement he has seen steady and sizable gains, polling as high as 17 percent, and has directly contributed to Gov. … And in Virginia, history is on the side of the Bob McDonnell.…

Oct 28, 2009 – The most recent polling for a special election in this strongly Republican district shows a three way race between the Democratic nominee … Those broadcasts, and an endorsement from the states leading newspaper, caused a spike in his polling numbers: the latest average from … the impression of a conservative tidal wave next Tuesdaya tidal wave that could easily materialize with likely GOP victories in Virginia…

Nov 13, 2009 – Just that one maladjustment to polling data can make overall anti-reform sentiment look like just the opposite. … In other words, if the national polling on this health care turkey were to be done in a balanced and straightforward way, we'd likely … I find it utterly baffling that congressional Democrats in places like Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and other swing states don't…

Nov 9, 2009 – The operative question today for Steele and his party, in the wake of winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, both Democratic … As independent voters move away from Democrats and lean back toward Republicans, which is what happened in Virginia and New Jersey, … and what polling over the year has shown to be happening nationwide, will Republicans build a solid new tent?…

Aug 18, 2006 – The other seats Democrats have targeted, in Arizona and Virginia, still look like longshots. … The Quinnipiac polling director detects the obvious: “Ned Lamont's Democratic primary win was based on a very small percentage of voters…

Oct 10, 2006 – I never brought politics up, by the way, in case y'all are worried I was push-polling or guiding the conversation. … Of course, you gotta note that most of this polling came before the North Korea story broke, so folks' proirities may shift dramatically … You also gotta note that even the NYT noticed the non-reaction among evangelicals in Virginia.…

Nov 7, 2006 – Caveats on exit polling, from the RNC. Bad track record from '04: Ohio: NEP Projected Sen. … Kerry Won By 2.3%; Virginia: NEP Projected a Dead Heat – President Bush Carried By 8%    …

Nov 7, 2006 – Exit polling got it wrong in 2000 and wrong in 2004 (4% off in 2004) An exit polling caveat. … VIRGINIA: In 2004, exit polling had the presidential within 1%, yet President Bush won by over 8%. … I can't tell you much about it, since I'm in Northern Virginia, which is crazy blue.…

Nov 7, 2006 – HH: And Virginia, you’re confident about Allen? … , NVA, with what they called the rest of Virginia, ROVA. … And they said that language in Northern Virginia meant something different than the rest of Virginia.…

May 6, 2013 – McAuliffe (Virginia Governor) - Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has opened up a slight lead over Democrat Terry McAuliffe … The Virginia GOP is also rolling out a new tagline against McAuliffe, noting that the Democrat "won't release his taxes, but he will … Early polling is surprisingly tight, given the state's lefty politics.  …

May 3, 2013 – better than even chance of picking up four of them: Iowa (Tom Harkin), Montana (Max Baucus), South Dakota (Tim Johnson) and West Virginia … The widely-followed Rothenberg Political Report rates the West Virginia race somewhere between a toss-up to "Tilt Republican." … Obama's mediocre job approval score is polling around 50 percent, with 44 percent of Americans disapproving, an embarrassing grade…