Given that the Governor’s race has turned unexciting as more and more polls show Bob McDonnell with a double-digit lead, a lot of the attention has turned to the House of Delegates races and how each particular region will vote for Governor; obviously, up here people are wondering how well Bob McDonnell will do in a region that is drove the state’s recent Democratic victories.
The Post’s poll gave Deeds a 56%-43% lead in NoVa, SurveyUSA gives McDonnell a 58%-41% lead in “Northeast”, and PPP gives Deeds a 50%-46% lead in the 703 area code (Rasmussen doesn’t have region breaks). Take those for what you will, but it remains unclear what the Post’s definition of NoVa is and what SurveyUSA’s definition of “Northeast” is.
Thankfully, in the discussion of the race this morning, the Post’s polling analyst Jennifer Agiesta addressed a question and confirmed the following:
“In our polling, Northern Virginia includes Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Loudoun, Manassas, Manassas Park and Prince William.”
So, there’s that. Anybody know where SurveyUSA’s breaks are? If so, send me an email at vablogger (at) gmail.com.
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Oct 28th by VA Blogger
I don’t know all of Survey USAs region breaks exactly, but I do know they include the Valley and Southwest in the same region (as “Shenandoah”) which is just plain retarded. Someone needs to tell them they’re two VERY different regions.
RichmondDem
on October 28th, 2009RD: hell has frozen over. I agree with you.
kelley in virginia
on October 28th, 2009And knowing this, I wouldn’t be surprised if SUSA is doing something as equally as stupid as, say, putting everything south to Caroline County and the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula along with NoVA as “Northeast”.
RichmondDem
on October 28th, 2009