The new Rasmussen poll of Virginia finds Republican Bob McDonnell continuing to hold a solid lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
The numbers: McDonnell 50%, Deeds 43%, with a ±4% margin of error. This has not significantly changed from two weeks ago, when McDonnell was ahead 51%-42%.
The pollster’s analysis finds that McDonnell has recovered from controversies surrounding his hard-right grad school thesis, which denounced working women — but also that the potential still exists for it to be a problem: “Concern about the thesis has risen again, however. Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters now say it is at least somewhat important in determining how they will vote. That’s up five points from the two previous surveys on the race.”
