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Survey of 500 Likely Voters December 7, 2005
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December 9, 2005--Virginia Senator George Allen (R) holds a solid lead over four potential challengers in his bid for re-election. He leads each by at least twenty percentage points and attracts more than 50% of the vote in every match-up. No potential challenger has yet announced plans to run against Allen. Related survey data shows Allen trailing Virginia Governor Mark Warner in a hypothetical 2008 campaign for the state's Presidential Electoral Votes. Crosstabs and other information is available for Premium Members. Thirty percent (30%) of Virginia voters say that immigration is a more important voting issue than the situation in Iraq. Fifty-three percent (53%) say the situation in Iraq is more important. In Nevada, voters are evenly divided as to which of those issues is more important. [More Below] Fifty-four percent (54%) of Virginia voters say that finishing the mission in Iraq is a higher priority than getting the troops home as soon as possible. Forty-two percent (42%) say getting the troops home is a higher priority. Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters approve of the way Tim Kaine is performing his role as Governor-elect. Rasmussen Reports has launched our ElectionEdgeTM Premium Service for Election 2006 to bring you the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a mid-term election. During Election 2006, Rasmussen Reports will poll at least once a month in every Senate and Governors' race. Coverage will include more frequent measurement of competitive races. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports December 7, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. |
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