WaPo poll: Obama leads in Virginia
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS |
9/18/12 12:55 PM EDT
A new poll out today from the Washington Post shows President Obama with a healthy lead over Mitt Romney in one of this fall's most contested states:
Likely voters in the Commonwealth favor Obama 52 to 44 percent. Among all voters, the president is up 50 to 43 percent, identical to his margin in a survey in early May.
Obama’s steady lead suggests that an unprecedented barrage of TV ads and dozens of in-person visits have yet to change the bottom line in the key battleground state.
In a place that rode out the recession with relative ease thanks to a huge defense sector, voters are split about evenly on Obama’s handling of the economy. That’s a more positive view than the president gets on the economy nationally.
But Romney runs evenly with Obama when it comes to whom voters trust to deal with the economy, which most Virginians, like all Americans, consider to be the most important issue.
Virginia has been getting a lot of in-person love from both campaigns lately: Paul Ryan is in the state today and tomorrow, and Obama is holding a rally in Woodbridge, Va., on Friday, not to mention visits last week from both Romney and Michelle Obama. The state is viewed by both campaigns as one of the most competitive on the map this year, but this is the second poll this week showing Obama ahead there: PPP gave him a five-point lead, 51-46, on Sunday.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/wapo-poll-obama-leads-in-virginia-135872.html?hp=r2
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