Rasmussen: Virginia, "McCain leads Clinton 49% to 38%, Obama 45% to 43%"

[usregimechange]

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters shows Senator John McCain enjoying advantages over both Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. McCain leads Clinton 49% to 38% and Obama 45% to 43%. Governor Mitt Romney does not fair quite as well. He finds himself with a statistically insignificant lead over Clinton (44% to 43%) and six points behind Obama (47% to 41%).
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/virginia/virginia_2008_presidential_election

[BluegrassDem]

1. VA is one of the flippable red states if Obama is our nominee

Even more reason why Hillary is murder suicide for the party. We cannot afford her to be the nominee. Not only will she go down, but she's gonna take the party down with her.

[abburdlen]

4. or Webb is the VP nt

[usregimechange]

8. Good idea

[TwilightGardener]

19. 3-Wives Webb? Good pick.

[skipos]

2. All Hillary polls should include Bloomberg and Nader, cause the odds are good

that is what we will get.

[Yael]

11. Bingo

[jasmine621]

3. You can't win them all.

I think this poll is also off. I wager that a lot of folks across the country thoroughly enjoyed the MSM screw up with polling in NH and many will beging lying to polsters. I'll be one of them.

[la la]

7. not listening to polls any more---

nope, nope---not payin' any attention to any of 'em!

:argh:

[laureloak]

5. Watch his victory speech then tell me who would vote for him...

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=mccain+NH+ripped&search=Search

[demnan]

6. I do think Obama will win the primary here

With the support and endorsement of a popular governor, Tim Kaine. Obama has been a clear favorite with Webb supportors that I know. I'm for Kucinich so I'm just weird here, but a lot of people I know have come out for Obama.

Not sure if Webb has come out with an endorsement yet or Mark Warner. We tend to stick together here in Virginia, at least past the primaries. We have good organization in the northern parts.

Alas, we made inroads last year with Webb but this is still very much a red state.

[Zueda]

9. I took this poll...

Looks like I'm in line with a majority here in VA :)

[ginchinchili]

10. I'm afraid Democrats have made a hedious mistake.

I feel as certain about the Democrats' defeat in the fall as I did about how disastrous an invasion of Iraq would be as soon as Bush began talking about invading. At this point in time America will vote for the most qualified candidate because of the nature of America's problems. That eliminates Obama, and Hillary might would have a chance if there wasn't so much contempt for her in this country. Independents will side with the candidate who can best convince them he or she can steer us through the fix we're presently in, despite the fact that Bush is the one, in large part, who got us here. Democrats had the ideal candidate for the 2008 election in Joe Biden and he was ignored because he wasn't enough of a celebrity. It would have been a sure win. Democrats are as vulnerable to manipulation as Republicans are. Dems just are convinced they know better. If Obama was white and Hillary hadn't been married to Bill Clinton they wouldn't even be presidential candidates. We're laying the groundwork for American politics for years to come. Money and celebrity gimmicks on the impressionable American electorate. We've fucked ourselves royally this time.

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

12. Polls are important indicators, but this far out from the election?

Um, no.

[antiimperialist]

13. The same Rasmussen who said Obama would win NH by 7% lol n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. Leave Rasmussen Alone

His polls have a ten percent margin of error...

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

14. I think Virginia will go GOP regardless.

Dems should flip IA, OH, NV, NM, CO in the next election, but something tells me this is to optimistic.

[spooky3]

18. depends on the candidate and whether s/he spends time in VA

the very blue regions of NoVA and Tidewater are the most rapidly growing in the state.

Kerry/Edwards understandably wrote off VA in the last election, and invested little time and $ here, so this is not a good measure of VA's possibilities. Not that we have a Dem governor again (M. Warner, then Kaine), one Dem Senator (Webb) and we are likely to get another Dem Senator (M. Warner) in the next election.

[rocktivity]

15. AND AWAYYYYYYY WE GO!

You'd think Rasmussen would have learned something since last Thursday--like using larger samples and smaller margins of error!

:eyes:
rocknation

[spooky3]

17. This was dated 1/8/08. And there is no mention of Edwards.

Edwards would do well in VA.

[Thrill]

20. Nothing will fire Republicans up like Clinton winning the Nomination

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

21. Hillary is both our least progressive candidate, and our least electable

The worst of both worlds.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

22. They had a similar result for Florida IIRC

Hillary does very poorly in these crucial Swing States, while Obama has a much better showing.