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Poll finds that elections for 2 [VA] state offices are tossups
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News Date | Monday, July 25, 2005 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | By MICHELLE WASHINGTON, The Virginian-Pilot
© July 25, 2005
NORFOLK — A statewide poll shows that fewer than half of potential voters recognize the names of the candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general, and both races are a dead heat.
At this point, the poll showed, most voters would cast their ballots along party lines.
Republican attorney general candidate Robert F. McDonnell holds a thin lead, 35 percent to 34 percent , over Democratic candidate R. Creigh Deeds. Thirty-one percent of those polled said they were undecided.
McDonnell, from Virginia Beach, has his strongest support in Hampton Roads.
In the lieutenant governor’s race, Republican William T. Bolling has a slim lead of 37 percent over Democrat Leslie L. Byrne’s 34 percent. Twenty-nine percent of those polled said they were undecided in that race.
The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points, making both races statistically even.
Each candidate was about even among independents, but about half those voters said they were still undecided.
Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C., interviewed 625 registered voters by telephone between July 19 and 21 .
All of the respondents said they were likely to vote in the November general election. The results were released Friday for publication today. |
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