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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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j’s notes Performs Autopsy on “Not Larry Sabato”

Jason Kenney has done an excellent job performing an autopsy on the rotting corpse of the Not Larry Sabato blog.  It is quite fitting that Jason, whose brother Shaun Kenney was unfairly targeted in this whole mess in an attempt to create a smokescreen, is the one who gets to play Quincy, M.E.

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Just got word that Faisal Gill has been declared the winner of the 51st Dist. convo.  However, from what I have been told, some precincts had more votes than recognized delegates.  If those precincts had been tossed as the party plan requires, I have been told that Julie Lucas would have emerged the winner.  Stay [...]

Did the Sox dodge a bullet by NOT getting Clemens?

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RPV Defers Action on Tate; Votes to Hold Prez Straw Poll at Advance

From the AP:
Virginia Republicans took no action Saturday on Mark Tate, a GOP state Senate hopeful facing charges of perjury and election fraud.
The party’s executive committee, meeting privately for nearly two hours, chose to table the issue and drafted a one-sentence letter to Tate, who was indicted late last month.
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WashPo embarasses itself with Tribbett article

The WashPo has finally hit rock bottom with today’s article, “Blogger Says He Was Told of Indictments” by Sandhya Somashekhar.  The entire article is about a claim made by Ben Tribbett on his blog, the late Not Larry Sabato.  Why does The WashPo give any credence to someone whose “#1 source of … income since 2005 [...]