Wow, check out these numbers from WaPo's VA poll

[ProSense]

Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/05/03/National-Politics/Polling/release_69.xml?uuid=edr5sJVlEeGQmYYrIBRwlQ



Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat?




Q: Overall, do you support or oppose the federal law making changes to the health care system? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat?




Q: If the 2012 presidential election were being held today and the candidates were (Barack Obama, the Democrat) and (Mitt Romney, the Republican), for whom would you vote?

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[liberalmike27]

11. Makes You Wonder

Where all these polls are coming from that are showing them as even.

[freshwest]

12. That percentage who would vote for Romney, after all that's been shown about him, is scary.

[Recursion]

14. Etch-a-sketch

I don't know how convinced people are that he'd actually work very hard to repeal PPACA

[MoreGOPoop]

2. Wow, this is awesome!

I've been encountering more & more people who support President Obama that I would Never have figured them for. And, this is in a very Southern state. If one gets hit hard enough, evidently, their eyes pop open.

[sakabatou]

3. Yep, Romney does have a female problem.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. Still hard to believe even 37% of any group of women would vote for him. n/t

[marmar]

4. The health care poll results are really good for Obama......

....... and really makes me wonder about some of those earlier polls indicating that a majority of people opposed the health care law, especially when you consider that Virginia is hardly a liberal fortress state.

[spanone]

6. k&r...

[TrollBuster9090]

7. The women's number is thanks to Bob McDonnell.

The Democratic strategy should obviously be to run HARD against all the Republican governors on their records. Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia are all great models of what Republicans do when in power.

[James48]

8. way tooo early

lets see the number in October. Then we'll talk. right now everything is in play.

[SidDithers]

9. 20 point lead among Females!!...

Holy crap!

Sid

[Jamaal510]

10. Regarding the graph of the match-up between Obama and Romney,

why are there 9% of Republicans who said they'll vote for Obama, and 6% Democrats voting Romney? Shouldn't this make those people be considered of the opposite party?

[Dawson Leery]

13. Give State Sanctioned Rape activist Robert McDonnell credit for the gap with the women's vote.