PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

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Jackson50 said:

fkusumot said:

akuma587 said:

Realclearpolitics has Virginia as tied again.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/va/virginia_mccain_vs_obama-551.html

RCP Average 09/07 - 09/14 -- 48.0 48.0 Tie

I don't think Virginia has gone Democratic for over 40 years. I mean, I was alive at the time but I can't say that I remember watching those election results as they rolled in. I do miss Walter Cronkite.

The last time Virginia broke Democratic in a presidential election was in 1964 when Johnson steamrolled Goldwater.

Well then, I was right. I was probably asleep as those results were coming in. My father voted for Goldwater and he reminds people of that whenever he gets the chance.

- On another note, congressional approval ratings are hovering around 20% right now [pollingreport.com] and yet the democrats are projected to pick up ~5 seats in the Senate. On a generic congressional vote the democrats are polling +4% ahead of the republicans.