Poll: Clinton up 7 points on Trump in Va.

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September 22, 2016, 08:08 am
Poll: Clinton up 7 points on Trump in Va.

By Rebecca Savransky

Donald Trump has closed some of the gap in Virginia, but Hillary Clinton still leads the state by seven points, a new poll finds.

Clinton has 44 percent support in Virginia to Trump's 37 percent, according to a Roanoke College poll released Thursday. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson has eight percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein has one percent.

In a head-to-head matchup without third-party candidates, Clinton leads by 11 points, 51 to 40 percent.

In last month's version of the same poll, Clinton led the head-to-head matchup by 16 points.

The Democratic nominee holds a lead among ideological moderates, 45 to 29 percent — but her lead among this group has declined since an August poll.

Sixty-four percent of likely voters say they are very interested in the campaign and 90 percent say they care a good deal about who wins the presidency, the poll found.

The poll was conducted from Sept. 11 to 20 among 841 likely Virginia voters. The margin of error is 3.4 percent.

Clinton leads Virginia by about five points, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/297175-poll-clinton-leads-trump-in-virginia

[andy58-in-nh]

While Virginia would be a closer race with another GOP candidate - any other GOP candidate - it hardly matters any more. Thanks to the explosive growth of the Federal government and the spread of its disproportionately liberal and Democrat workers into its populous northern counties, Virginia is now officially a blue state. Or, rather like other such states, it is largely "red" geographically with a demographically huge spot of blue. 

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