James you've got to be kidding me here.  

The only thing this poll shows is that the people of Virginia don't really know who their Attorney General is.  

And Deeds "doubling" Moran's Republican support?  You mean Creigh's 6% to Brian's 3%

Seriously?  

Exactly Sean, not only that but James didn't mention that while Creigh's getting a massive 3% advantage on Moran among Republicans- Moran is absolutely devastating Deeds (by 3%) among the all-important independents. Let's face it, this is more proof that there is no electability difference between the candidates (at least not proved so far). That's bad news for Creigh.

I'd say it's past time for RK to create a spot on the upper left side that provides links to full disclosure by front page blog authors and management  

http://vpap.org/vendors/profil...

You can find a list of everyone I've accepted money from (all for doing websites for their campaigns). I have consistently rejected $$$ from state political campaigns for "netroots consulting" and will continue to do so.

Hope that answers your question in regards to my "affiliations" :)

I wasn't asking. You, James, have been rumored to be on Deeds staff. Readers should not have to look to another source to see who is getting what or when from whom.  

It would be nice if none of them were taking money from primary candidates so we wouldn't have to look at any lists at all.

Grey Havens alludes further down to people using RK as a source for information.  Lately and especially with regards to primary campaigns, I only swing by for the lolz while I'm taking a break at work.  It's just too hard to take it seriously or sincerely when some people are collecting paychecks--you end up having to take everything with a large grain of salt and a heaping helping of "haha."

"I'm currently unemployed," aznew said proudly.

I personally think Deeds and Moran are a dead heat  

Moran draws 3% of Republicans, Deeds 6%. So yes, it has "doubled", in the sense that I have one cookie, you have two cookies, so you have double mine. But if I had forty cookies and you had sixty, wouldn't that be more significant?

Politics is not a game of ratios, it's a game of margins. 20 cookies is far more significant than an extra one which happens to double my cache.

I'm going to buy some snickerdoodles.

I appreciate your enthusiasm for Creigh Deeds, but people count on us for info, dude!

It's not the numbers, it's the significance of the numbers.  What do they mean.  In this case the number mean that nobody knows nothing about nobody and nobody cares yet.

It also shows that McDonnell hasn't proven to anyone that he's got what it takes to move up.

In other words - as a baseline this thing's a wash.

I'm proud to be doing a little work for Brian Moran, but I thought the RK community should know that others had a radically different take on the poll:

This could be good news for the Moran campaign. Consider that Deeds ran a statewide campaign in 2005 and came within a whisker of being elected attorney general, yet that name recognition hasn't translated into a lead over Moran.

And Ben brings up another good point:

This means Creigh has basically no advantage over Moran in a head to head matchup with McDonnell- despite having spent over $3,000,000 on his statewide campaign in 2005.

I'm failing to see the silver line for the Deeds campaign.  

I'm no expert at reading polls, but this one says little about the Deeds/Moran race, IMHO. I suppose each camp can get out of this poll exactly the expectations that they brought into it.

So, sure, Sen. Deeds ran statewide in 2005. Brian Moran has a brother who is a well-known Congressman in NoVa -- I wonder how many points that was worth?

With so little meaningful data, one can all in the missing pieces however one wants, it seems to me.  

And, frankly, it's a bit ridiculous to be polling on a general election fight that is 17 months away.

About this poll earlier.  He's a Brian Moran fan, I'm nuetral, he insisted it was good news for both Deeds and Moran, saying neither of them is statewide and for the AG to have a mere 5 point lead is astounding.

I say - the poll specifically said "Democrat Creigh Deeds/Brian Moran and Republican Bob McDonnell."  Hate to say it but... that's got to give Brian/Creigh a boost now that might not still be around in 16 months.

I think this poll has absolutely no meaning whatsoever at this point - although I am surprised Deeds is not doing better against McDonnell than Moran is.  Deeds spent three million dollars in his AG race and one would think he would have done better against McDonnell at this point in a head to head match-up.  So the results of this poll, I think, must be good news for Moran.  

At this point, and this could easily change after the fall election, Moran seems to be better organized.  However, both face the same problem in a June primary that Democratic candidates seems to always face - getting voters to turn out in a June primary.  CD's that Deeds will need to count on in a primary perform poorly in June primaries.  And based on this past weekends convention, the activists seem to be in Moran's corner not only in the CD's in NOVA, but in Hampton Roads and the Richmond area as well.

Republicans must be scratching their heads after reading this poll.  McDonnell, after spending the last three years as AG, should be performing much better - how embarrassing.  

But will any of this really matter?  Virginia has a long hisotry of electing the opposite party in a governor's race that won the presidency the year prior - so will Virginia buck the long trend with President Obama sitting in the White House?  If so, I guess we can say convincingly that Virginia will have turned blue.      

Folks, let's get real:

Creigh has 27%, Moran has 27%.  Isn't that normally known as a "tie"?

James, you do some great work, but if you spin any harder, dude, you're going to get whiplash!