Along with the poll that came out earlier this week, there’s yet more evidence that the Virginia Senate race is, for all purposes, effectively over:
There are no surprises in the latest polling on the U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds former Democratic Governor Mark Warner’s with 60% of the vote and former Republican Governor Jim Gilmore with 34% (see crosstabs). That’s virtually identical to last month’s results and consistent with every other survey conducted on the race this year. Virginia is the most solid of all the likely Democratic gains in the Senate races this year.
Warner is viewed favorably by 68%, unchanged from a month ago.
Gilmore’s ratings dropped two points to 47% favorable
Shortly after Election Day, Virginia Republicans will start wondering what went wrong and whether Gilmore was the right candidate to go up against Warner this year. Given the way the polls have gone, though, I don’t know that there’s any candidate who would have been able to keep this seat for the Republicans. If anything, Bob Marshall would have done worse that Gilmore, and while Tom Davis might have made the race a little more competitive, I don’t think that even he would have been able to overcome the obvious advantages that Warner had going in to this battle.
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