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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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Let’s Save St. Joseph School

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

Please join Bob McDonnell in helping to save St. Joseph School…
Let’s Save St. Joseph School
4/14/2008 2:55:00 PM
Dear Friends,
Typically, the emails you receive from me are political. Today, I want to ask your permission to make a rare exception. I’d like to tell you the story of St. Joseph School in Petersburg, and how we can [...]

Filed under: Bob McDonnell, Education | 1 Comment »

A Bitter America?

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

 
Dear Friends,
We’ve all said things that we’ve regretted. Sometimes they result from a mere slip of the tongue and sometimes they reveal deeply held beliefs that you’d rather not communicate to the world.
A few days ago, at a San Francisco fundraiser, Barack Obama described Americans who live in small towns or other areas that have [...]

Filed under: 2008 Elections | 3 Comments »

Obama Tries Jedi Mind Tricks

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

Filed under: Humor, Media, Teleprompter Barry | 1 Comment »

D.J. McGuire for Lee Hill Supervisor (Spotsy BOCS)?

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

I like the sound of that based upon this.

Filed under: 2009 Elections, Spotsylvania Politics | Leave a Comment »

Googling “Levar Stoney”

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Light Horse

I googled “Levar Stoney” and this is the third page that came up:
http://blogs.wispolitics.com/legal/2006/01/tire-slashing-trial-national.html
There are many other news accounts of this out on the web.
 
What Stoney did was no secret buried in obscure court records in a distant state. It was out there for anyone to find with a few finger motions. I cannot imagine the Democratic [...]

Filed under: Democrats, National Politics, Virginia Politics | 4 Comments »

Coverage of Obama’s “San Francisco Liberal Treat” Grows

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

Coverage of Barry Obama’s condescending remarks about average middle class people in “fly over country” during a fundraiser in San Francisco last week continues to grow.
Today, a Bill Kristol column in the NYTimes:
I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn’t [...]

Filed under: 2008 Elections, Scandal!, Teleprompter Barry | 4 Comments »

New DPVA Exec. Dir. Has Some Explaining To Do

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

Scott’s Morning Brew is breaking the story that the new Democrat-ick Party of Virginia Exec. Dir. Levar Stoney was involved in the 2004 “Operation Elephant” scandal in Wisconsin where Dem operatives slashed the tires on GOP vans meant to get out the vote on Election Day.  While it appears that Stoney did not take part [...]

Filed under: Democrats, Virginia Politics | 10 Comments »

Bob Marshall Asks Gov. Timmy! To Seek Waiver on Biofuels

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

Federal Mandate Is Inflating Food Prices, Polluting Chesapeake Bay, Harming Farm and Watermen’s Families
Del. Bob Marshall is urging Gov. Tim Kaine to petition the federal Environmental Protection Agency for a temporary biofuels waiver in order to cut rising food prices for Virginians, reduce pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, save state budget funds, and help [...]

Filed under: 2008 Elections, Economics, Energy, Virginia Politics | Leave a Comment »

Reagan Rock Video Fights – Week 35 Results

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Riley

The polls are now closed on Week 35 of Virginia Virtucon’s Reagan Rock Video Fights. The Falco fans were out in force this weekend, casting a record-breaking number of votes in our RRVF. With 90 percent of the vote, Falco defeats Tommy Tutone to remain our champ for four weeks running.
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