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    Election 2009 actual results: Bob McDonnell 58.6 percent for a 17.4 percent margin of victory. Virtucon rankings are based upon total amount the two numbers deviate from the actual numbers.

    1. Survey USA (10/30-11/1) – 58% / 18% (deviation 1.2%)

    2. VCU (10/21-25) – 54% / 18% (deviation 5.2%)

    3. (TIE) PPP (10/31-11/1) – 56% / 14% (deviation 6%)

    3. (TIE) Roanoke College (10/21-27) – 53% / 17% (deviation 6%)

    5. Suffolk Univ. (10/26-28) – 54% / 14% (deviation 8%)

    6. Rasmussen (10/27) – 54% / 13% (deviation 9%)

    7. Washington Post (10/22-25) – 55% / 11% (deviation 10%)

    8. Times Dispatch / Mason Dixon (10/28-29) – 53% / 12% (deviation 11%)

    9. Daily Kos / Research 2000 (10/26-28) – 54% / 10% (deviation 12%)

    10. Virginia Pilot / CNU (10/8-13) – 45% / 14% (deviation 17%)

    11. Clarus (10/18-19) – 49% / 8% (deviation 19%)


    Next time you see a poll, judge it by its past performance. Here is how they rank in terms of accuracy based upon the 2008 presidential election:

    1T. Rasmussen (11/1-3)**

    1T. Pew (10/29-11/1)**

    3. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1)

    4. Harris Interactive (10/20-27)

    5. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)*

    6T. Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)*

    6T. ARG (10/25-27)*

    8T. CNN (10/30-11/1)

    8T. Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1)

    10. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3)

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    (If you're below DailyKos, you don't deserve to be taken seriously for another four years. Better luck in 2012.)

    11. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27)

    12. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2)

    13. FOX (11/1-2)

    14. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27)

    15. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3)

    16. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2)

    17. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2)

    18. Marist College (11/3)

    19. CBS (10/31-11/2)

    20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)

    21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)

    22. CBS/Times (10/25-29)

    23. Newsweak (10/22-23)

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Congrats to Marty Nohe!!!

Congratulations to Virginia Virtucon friend PWC Supervisor Marty Nohe (R-Coles District) on being elected Prince William BOCS Vice Chairman last night.  Best wishes as PWC’s new “Number Two”!!!

What will Webb say?

Jim Hoeft at Bearing Drift is running a contest for readers to write what they think Sen. Jim “Thinskin” Webb (D-WashPo) will say in his response to the State of the Union address.  Meanwhile, Ward Smythe gives his predictions on the speech, saying “It’s not ‘State of the Union’ in Thailand”.
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New Season of “24″ on DVD already

The four-hour, two-night season premiere of “24″ is already out on DVD.

This is a great experiment in whether FOX can combat illegal downloading of TV shows by offering the official DVD so quickly.  It will only be a matter of time until TV shows and theatrical movies will be available on DVD immediately following their [...]

Arlington County – Where the Government Searches your Trash

In Tuesday’s Washington Post, it was revealed that the Arlington County Government searches though Citizens’ trash without a search warrant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501290.html