This one will go down to the wire:
Republican candidate Robert F. McDonnell has rebounded to take a narrow lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the race for governor in Virginia, highlighting the expected closeness of that contest right up to November.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters finds McDonnell leading Deeds 44% to 41%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and 12% are undecided.
A month ago, just after Deeds beat two other gubernatorial candidates in the state Democratic Primary, he posted a six-point lead over McDonnell, 47% to 41%.
Both parties will, I’ll bet, end up pouring vast resources in to this race, considered a bell weather for what will happen in the 2010 mid-terms. In the end, I expect the continuing drag of the economy coupled with the increasing toxicity of the Democrat “brand” to boost McDonnell over the top in this State which so famously switched from Red to Blue in 2008. But it will be a hard fight and McDonnell had better take nothing for granted.
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