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Poll: Deeds Catching Up With McDonnell, Thesis Growing In Importance
Eric Kleefeld | September 17, 2009, 3:06PM
VA-GOV Candidates Creigh Deeds (D) and Bob McDonnell (R)
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The new Rasmussen poll in Virginia finds that Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds is closing the gap against Republican Bob McDonnell -- and that McDonnell's hard-right grad school thesis could be sinking in further with the public.
The numbers: McDonnell 48%, Deeds 46%, within the ±4.5% margin of error.
Two weeks ago, when the thesis story had just broken, McDonnell was ahead 51%-42%. At the time, the pollster's analysis said it was possible that the thesis could become a bigger factor.
And here's the analysis of the new survey: "Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters now say the writings are at least somewhat important in terms of how they will vote. That's up from 36% in the previous survey. The number of unaffiliated voters who consider the writings important is up to 47%."
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ondioline
September 17, 2009 4:42 PM
I didn't think for a second that McDonnell's whole "That was 20 years ago! That was just some crap I wrote but didn't mean! Nobody cares! Nothing to see here!" strategy was gonna fly. My neighbors to the south are a bit too sophisticated for that!
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johnmccsf
September 17, 2009 4:56 PM
I happen to think that the barefoot-and-preggers thesis has much to recommend it
Then again I am no LandRover Liberal
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rb6
September 17, 2009 6:00 PM
The fact that the thesis is old might have made it a non-issue, but the real problem for McDonnell is that everything else in his career suggests that he still mostly agrees with his thesis, and disclaism it only because it would be political suicide.
Telling Northern Virginians that women shouldn't work is not a good idea, when it is probably the capital of the two income household of the entire state if not the entire nation.
Just smacks of opportunism.
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AnswerFrog
September 17, 2009 7:30 PM
Yeah, opportunism and his facile jettisoning of his views when he's running for office are the real sin here, at least for the voters. Seems awfully fake. Not like he was a kid when he wrote it, or had some big change of heart. Just another pol who says anything to get elected.
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