Terry McAuliffe Up 8 Points in Latest Poll

One of my big fears is that Democrat voters will become complacent when they see yet another poll showing Terry McAuliffle with an 8 point lead over Ken Cuccinelli, a/k/a Kookinelli.  Turn out remains critical in order to (i) guarantee that McAuliffe beats Cuccinelli, preferably by a significant margin, thereby rebuking The Family Foundation and the lunatics who nominated Cuccinelli, and (ii) to guarantee that Ralph Northam and Mark Herring win the races for Lt. Governor and Attorney General, respectively.  It is very important that the Democrat candidates win a clean sweep of all statewide positions since it is perhaps the only way that sane Republicans will realize the need to drive the Christofascists and white supremacists in the GOP base back into the political wilderness, hopefully forever.  Here are highlights from Politico:

Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has an 8-point lead in the Virginia governor’s race, a new poll found, the latest evidence of his advantage with less than three weeks left until Election Day.

The NBC4/NBC News/Marist poll found McAuliffe winning 46 percent of likely voters, compared with 38 percent for GOP Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and 9 percent for libertarian Robert Sarvis. If the election were a two-way race between McAuliffe and Cuccinelli, McAuliffe’s lead would increase to 9 points, 52 percent to 43 percent.

The new numbers are consistent with other recent polling in the race, most of which gives McAuliffe a high single-digit lead. A POLITICO poll out last week found McAuliffe leading by 9 points, 44 percent to 35 percent.

McAuliffe has had a sustained financial advantage in the state, and he and his Democratic allies have far outspent Cuccinelli and the GOP on the airwaves — allowing the Democrat to effectively build up Cuccinelli’s negatives. McAuliffe’s ads have highlighted Cuccinelli’s “extreme” positions on social issues, seeking to win the support of female voters.

That advantage is clear in the new poll’s numbers: McAuliffe increased his lead among women to 20 points, taking 52 percent of female voters to 32 percent for Cuccinelli.

He’s also seen as more likeable than his Republican opponent: McAuliffe’s favorability ratings are almost even, at 42 percent favorable and 41 percent unfavorable. By contrast, 53 percent view Cuccinelli unfavorably, compared with just 36 percent who view him favorably.

Again, we need the largest turnout possible to hand a crushing defeat to the lunatic "dream team" of the far right which will be hard put to claim that their hand picked ticket lost because it was not sufficiently conservative.