AS BATTLEGROUND states go, Virginia appears to be relatively unworrying for Hillary Clinton. Even before the Democratic presidential nominee selected the state’s junior United States senator, Tim Kaine, as her vice-presidential running mate—a move that pundits believe slightly strengthens her hand here—Virginia appeared to be locking down for the Democratic ticket. So confident is Mrs Clinton that its 13 electoral votes are hers that she didn't advertise on Virginia television in September and isn’t planning to do so in October.
Donald Trump has consistently trailed Mrs. Clinton in statewide polling—sometimes by double-digits. A new poll published by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christoper Newport University on October 3rd put her seven points above Donald Trump; a poll by the centre published on September 26th, the day of the first presidential debate, showed her leading by six points.
On September 24th, Mr Trump visited the state for a rally in Roanoke, a small, heavily Democratic city in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a perch from which he could reach out to rural voters, with whom he is popular, not just in Virginia but in four...Continue reading
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