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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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Ohio’s Dem Sec. of State Seeking To Disenfranchise McCain Voters

Perhaps Dems should change their slogan to “Count every DEMOCRAT-ICK vote (but as few Republican votes as possible.)”
Ballot snafu endangers votes
In a narrow interpretation of Ohio law, Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says many of the McCain forms have not been completed properly. If the box stating the person is an eligible elector — [...]

Matt Damon: Sarah Palin Presidency Would Be Like a ‘Really Bad Disney Movie’

Matt Damon: Sarah Palin Presidency Would Be Like a ‘Really Bad Disney Movie’
“It’s like a really bad Disney movie, “The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she’s president,” said Damon. “She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”
Do you really [...]

New CNN/Time Poll Has McCain +6 in VA

VIRGINIA (CNN/Time): McCain – 49%, Obama – 43%, Nader – 3%, Barr – 1%.

Why didn’t Obama leave his church after this?

Where was Barack Obama on September 11, 2001?  I don’t know.  But presumably, like most Americans the following Sunday, he was at his then-church in Chicago listening to his pastor of 20 years, his good friend, the man who performed his wedding ceremony, Rev. Jeremiah Wright give this sermon on 9/16/01:

Why didn’t [...]

Why would Obama accept support from and associate with someone like this?

From the NYTimes, 9/11/01:
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen [...]

How 9/11 Changed One Man’s Life

Anyone living and/or working in the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia area on 9/11/01 has a story to tell. Recently, I heard the story of a cab driver who saw the plane hit the Pentagon in his rearview mirror. He is an older African-American gentleman who grew up in Queens, NY and was, as he put it [...]

7 Years Ago

Two years ago I wrote, on this blog, how I remember September 11, 2001.  Today many across our nation will pause to remember the victims of that tragic day.
Today, my wife and I will again be in Fairfax Hospital as she is scheduled to give birth to our third son.  Again a joyous time for [...]

It’s Official – WashPo Admits McCain-Palin Rally HUGE

This is truly big on so many levels.  From the WashPo:
The McCain campaign and Fairfax City police estimate that 23,000 people crammed into the park, which, if accurate, would make yesterday’s rally McCain’s largest in the campaign, his aides said.