I hope as many East Coast Du'ers as can go to Virginia this weekend.

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4. Quinnipiac shows a 4 point lead.

A Quinnipiac University poll finds McAuliffe (D) up by four percentage points among likely voters over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R). The survey depicts a far closer race than a Washington Post/Abt-SRBI poll released Monday, which found McAuliffe with a 12 percentage-point lead over Cuccinelli among likely voters. McAuliffe’s lead was his widest yet across three Post polls this year, while his four-point edge in the Quinnipiac poll is near his slimmest advantage in the firm’s four likely-voter surveys.



The chief difference between the surveys was the share of likely voters that identified themselves as Democrats, Republicans and independents, attitudes that both polls measured by asking an identical question.

In the Post poll, self-identified Democrats outnumbered Republicans 35 percent to 27 percent among likely voters, while Quinnipiac found Republicans with a two-point edge in party identification, 31 percent to 29 percent. Previous Quinnipiac polls this fall have found Democrats with a five- to eight-point edge on identification among likely voters; a September Post poll found Democrats with a seven-point edge.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/new-quinnipiac-survey-shows-narrower-lead-for-mcauliffe-in-va-governors-race/2013/10/30/fd2a5ca0-4169-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_story.html