Here are the latest results from the Virginia poll by Christopher Newport University Virginia Poll published on USAElectionPolls.com:
There were 500 voters polled on 9/10-14.
| Christopher Newport University Virginia Poll Date: 9/10-14 Virginia Added: 9/18/08 |
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| John McCain | 48% |
| Barack Obama | 39% |
Quote:
. Democrats quickly challenged the CNU poll's presidential results, arguing that it included an unrepresentative sample of state voters. The poll included far too few young voters and African Americans, said Jared Leopold, a spokesman for the Democrats' coordinated campaign in Virginia. The Obama camp has targeted both groups.Only 3 percent of the CNU survey participants were under 30 years old; such voters made up 16 percent of the state's voter turnout in the 2004 election, according to Election Day surveys at polling places statewide. Ten percent of those surveyed by CNU identified themselves as African American; the black turnout in Virginia in 2004 was 22 percent of the total vote.
Quentin Kidd, a CNU political scientist who oversaw the polling, acknowledged that young voters and African Americans were under-represented. "A survey is a snapshot in time," he said, and the CNU poll has a statistical margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
The CNU poll was based on interviews with 500 voters, each quizzed in person. The PPP poll relied on automated calls, with voters punching in responses to recorded questions on their telephone keypads.
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