Below The Beltway

With less than four weeks to go until Election Day, Bob McDonnell has a double digit lead in the latest Washington Post poll:
Republican Robert F. McDonnell has taken a commanding lead over R. Creigh Deeds in the race for governor of Virginia, as momentum the Democrat had built with an attack on his opponent’s conservative [...]

A new SurveyUSA/News Channel 8 poll shows Bob McDonnell back to a double digit lead over Creigh Deeds in the Virginia Governor’s race:
With four weeks until Virginia’s gubernatorial election, Republican Bob McDonnell maintains his commanding lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell leads Deeds by 11 points, 54-43, according to a new SurveyUSA poll commissioned by WJLA-TV. [...]

The latest SurveyUSA poll of the Virginia Governor’s race puts all three races firmly the Republican corner:
In the race for Governor, Republican Bob McDonnell today defeats Democrat Creigh Deeds by 14 points, 55% to 41%. Compared to identical SurveyUSA polls released four and nine weeks ago, little has changed. McDonnell receives majorities from both men [...]

A new poll from Clarus Research Group, a previously unknown (at least in Virginia) polling firm, purports to show significant tightening in all three of Virginia’s statewide races:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In a new statewide poll of Virginia’s voters, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell posts a 5-point lead over Democratic rival Creigh Deeds. In [...]

Well, it’s beginning to look like the controversy over Bob McDonnell’s thesis is having very little impact on the race:
Bob McDonnell has maintained his lead in the Virginia Governor’s race.
An exclusive News7 poll of likely voters shows McDonnell with a 12 point lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds.
The poll, conducted this week by SurveyUSA, did find [...]

Public Policy Polling is out with a new poll on the 2009 Virginia statewide races and it shows that Creigh Deeds has gained some ground over Bob McDonnell:
The race to be the next Governor of Virginia is back in single digits, as Creigh Deeds has pulled to within 49-42 against Bob McDonnell after trailing 51-37 [...]

Well, it looks like that SurveyUSA poll wasn’t a fluke after all:
Bob McDonnell has opened up a 51-37 lead over Creigh Deeds in the race to be Virginia’s next Governor, up from a 49-43 advantage four weeks ago.
The movement in the race likely has more to do with national trends than anything actually going on [...]