A new poll from Christopher Newport University and Richmond Times-Dispatch shows former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney up by three and half points in Virginia, a state that President Obama carried in 2008 and will likely be a major battleground in the upcoming Presidential election. Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the President are essentially tied at 43 percent.
A trial heat of the Republican primary vote in the state is no contest at all: Romney gets 44 percent, creeping close to a majority within a crowded GOP field. Businessman Herman Cain and Perry follow behind with 12 and 10 percent, respectively.
The poll also confirmed many of the previous numbers on the US Senate race in the state: “And like every other poll released for months, the CNU survey shows the race — which will be one of the tightest and highest-profile Senate contests in the nation — as a toss-up between Kaine and Allen. Kaine has 43.9 percent to Allen’s 41.5 percent, a difference within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.”
