Bush to campaign for Kilgore Monday; latest poll numbers

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9928546/

<snip>

Jerry Kilgore will get some big name support on Monday. President Bush is expected to be in town campaigning for Kilgore in their first public campaign appearance together in Richmond. The White House confirms Bush will appear briefly with Kilgore at Richmond International Airport Monday evening.

Kilgore told The Associated Press in Charlottesville Friday that the president made the offer to come to Virginia. Kilgore added he thinks “Virginia has benefited from his presidency.”

With Election Day on Tuesday, the two leading candidates for governor are criss-crossing the state as a new poll out Friday shows Republican Jerry Kilgore and Democrat Tim Kaine in a virtual dead heat.

The Mason-Dixon poll puts Kaine at 45 percent and Kilgore at 44 percent in a survey of 625 registered voters conducted this week. Thos results are within the poll’s margin of error plus-or-minus four-percentage-points. Independent Russ Potts was at four percent, while seven percent of those responding were uncommitted.

<snip>

Maybe Bush showing up on Monday, with all of his problems, will actually backfire on Kilgore. Let us hope so!

[Zynx]

1. The only reason Bush would show up for Kilgore is to fire up the "base".

However, Kilgore already has played to the "base" in a big way so I don't know what good it could do there. All I think it will do is piss off moderates and independents who don't want any part of Bush's crap.

[underpants]

2. It's a make up for Kilgore ignoring him in Norfolk

That's my opinion anyway. W is literally doing a drive by-he is flying into RIC, doing his bit, and then flying out.

The local NBC station did one of the most skewed reports on it I have ever seen. They never mentioned any poll numbers and said that Kilgore's people think that this will "Widen the gap" between Kilgore and Kaine, as if Kilgore was leading.