Quinnipiac University Poll, the first poll of this year’s Virginia Senate race, shows Senator Tim Kaine leading challenger Corey Stewart 54% to 36%. Kaine’s lead with women is 61% to 28%. With men, Kaine leads by only 1%, 46 to 45. From Quinnipiac poll,
Virginia voters approve 55 – 36 percent of the job Kaine is doing and give him a 51 – 33 percent favorability rating. Stewart gets a divided 28 – 30 percent favorability, with 39 percent who don’t know enough about him to form an opinion of him.
The economy is the most important issue in deciding how they will vote for U.S. Senator, 26 percent of Virginia voters say, as 21 percent list immigration, with 19 percent citing health care and 14 percent listing gun policy.
“U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is in very strong shape for reelection in Virginia, especially among women,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll.
“Virginia, which was once a solidly red state, has made the full transition to a blue bastion. Voters in the Old Dominion are happy with the way things are going in their state and they give their statewide Democratic office-holders good approval ratings.”
“The office-holder they don’t like is President Donald Trump, whose job approval is strongly negative. Voters see candidates who embrace him negatively,” Brown added.
Only 32 percent of Virginia voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, while 59 percent have an unfavorable opinion.
The Democratic Party gets a divided 46 – 45 percent favorability rating.
This doesn’t look good for our team but November is a long way away.
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Name recognition is what got Corey nominated. What he needs more than anything is to get votes from the Freitas supporters….that will be a tough one with some of his last-minute primary antics. It’s possible, but it will be hard and require some humility. Virginia is a blue state (see Comstock article above) and that is a difficult environment for all republicans to run in.
Interesting how they worded the question about support for the Republican Party. Most of the conservatives I know and likely many of those who read and post on this blog have a negative view of the Republican Party.
I agree. the Virginia version is not our friend.
Those are not stellar numbers for an incumbent Senator, former Governor, and recent favorite son VP candidate.
I can see why he was so frothy at the democrat party recent Jackson-Jefferson dinner.
We need to get people to watch the Kaine-Prince debate.
The churlish Kaine was revealed in that debate but we also got a view of the real man when he purposely closed highway rest stops to punish children and anyone that needed a rest stop because he couldn’t get a tax increase approved. What kind of person would purposely act out against those he pledged to represent? The guy is plainly an extreme lefty creep who is protected by the print media in Virginia.
I agree completely, but your comments don’t mean Virginia won’t support him again. He and Warner don’t represent anyone but themselves and should be vulnerable. however…I fear they are not.
Is this the same polling company that had Clinton winning North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania? Why yes it is!