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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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Obama ‘Trashes’ the Flag

Posted on September 6, 2008 by VA Patriot

Obama’s campaign handed out thousands of flags at the Dem Convention for people to wave at Invesco Field.   After that they trashed them.  See the piece here.

McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain [...]

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Palin Rumor Debunking

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Light Horse

Here is a comprehensive list of debunked Sarah Palin rumors:
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/

Filed under: 2008 Elections, National Politics, Nutroots, Sarah Palin | 2 Comments »

When The MSM Misses The Point

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Hirons

The big story of the day, according to the MSM . . .the famous Alaskan private jet didn’t acutally sell on eBay.
The point of the story is not the actual mode of the sell, rather the story is the new ideas and new way of business that Palin brought to the state.  She looked at [...]

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Bloated Washed-Up Rock Stars Against McCain-Palin

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Riley

A week ago, complaints were flying about the McCain campaign using the Van Halen song “Right Now” at the rally to introduce Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate (never mind that half the members of Van Halen who recorded that song — Sammy Hagar, who wrote the lyrics, and Michael Anthony – neither of whom are still with the [...]

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Presidency in a Paper Cup

Posted on September 6, 2008 by conservativefembot

Something our esteemed Riley said about seeing candidates on television in sordid places like David Letterman’s chair and on the Saturday Night Live stage – best known of late for having been traipsed by George Carlin in the midst of an admitted cocaine-fueled, teeth-grinding session in his heyday- reminded me of what a very old professor once [...]

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