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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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Webb Doesn’t Understand War?

“Anyone who tells you we can set a timetable for withdrawal doesn’t understand war,” he says. “And anyone who says that nothing can be done to speed a secure peace doesn’t understand America.”
Then-candidate Jim “Thinskin” Webb (D-WashPo) 9/24/2006 in Time magazine.
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Sen. Jim “Thinskin” Webb (D-WashPo) 3/27/2007 on striking from the supplemental spending bill language setting [...]

Who Died and Made James Dobson the Arbiter of “Good Christians”?

Whatever credibility that Dr. James Dobson may have ever had is in the toilet.
Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared to throw cold water on a possible presidential bid by former Sen. Fred Thompson while praising former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also weighing a presidential run, in a phone interview Tuesday.
“Everyone knows [...]

Worst Boss of the Year Award Goes To…

The envelope please…
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The “Worst Boss of the Year” award for 2007 goes to…
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Sen. Jim “Thinskin” Webb (D-WashPo)!!!

Yes, Sen. Thinskin, you are this year’s Worst Boss of the Year!!!  No one has come close nor do we expect anyone to reach the heights that you have in recent days, so we are just foregoing [...]

Sen. “ThinSkin” On Suicide Watch?

First the gun – “I didn’t give that gun to him” incident.
 Now it appears the “back Jim Webb at all cost” troops are stirring against him.  N.D. Plum calls Sen. “Thinskin” disloyal on NotLarrySabato.  Not Larry himself calls the Sen. irresponsible in a comment of the post. 
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More Webb-O Irony

Yesterday, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced S. 1001, a bill to restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.  So far, 41 senators have signed on as cosponsors of the bill including Democrats Max Baucus (MT), Jon Tester (MT), and Ben Nelson (NE).  No Jim Webb.  I guess the people of the District of [...]