In Public Policy Polling’s latest numbers.
Pollster makes the argument that Deeds is closing and has far more upside potential than McDonnell as 53% of the remaining undecideds are Democrats and only 7% are Republicans.
One could, of course, make a different argument here- if 9% of the electorate is undecided, McDonnell just has to win 22% of the remaining undecideds to be Governor.
Most interesting tidbit- declining favorability numbers for both candidates, with a larger decline for McDonnell.
McDonnell’s numbers have gone from 53-31 to 47-42, Deeds’ from 47-35 to 43-42.
Memo to all graduate students: copy edit that thesis for unsubstantiated personal opinions one last time.
Democratic attacks on McDonnell are exacting a toll.
But can Deeds withstand the emergent Republican assault on his op-ed announcing that the first thing he’ll do as Governor is sign a bill raising taxes for transportation?
McDonnell has obviously written the most widely known Master’s Thesis in the history of Virginia.
We’ll have to see whether Deeds’ stint as a columnist achieves similar recognition.
“We’ll have to see whether Deeds can withstand the coming Republican assault on his op-ed announcing that the first thing he’ll do as Governor is sign a bill raising taxes for transportation.”
Well, that’s how the GOP will spin it. But he didn’t say it would be the first thing he would do, and given the glacial pace of the G.A., he couldn’t hold that promise anyway. Rahter, he said he would sign a “bi-partisan compromise.”
What he said was, “Let me be clear regarding taxes. I will sign a bill that is the product of bipartisan compromise that provides a comprehensive transportation solution. As a legislator, I have voted for a number of mechanisms to fund transportation, including a gas tax. And I’ll sign a bipartisan bill with a dedicated funding mechanism for transportation — even if it includes new taxes.
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