VA-PPP: McAuliffe (D) ahead by 4, Sarvis (L) has 7% support

[Tender Branson]

New Poll: Virginia Governor by Public Policy Polling on 2013-07-14

Summary: D: 41%, R: 37%, L: 7%, U: 15%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Tender Branson]

3rd-party candidates are usually overestimated in the pre-election polls, unless they have a solid amount of money. On election day, people prefer not to waste their votes though.

But Sarvis could be an alternative here. Still I don't think he'll get more than 3-5% in the end.

[Landslide Lyndon]

He could become this year's Marshall Coleman.

[Rowan]

Yeah, I don't know why PPP included him in the poll(or at the least didn't include a head-to-head question w/o the third party candidate).

[Maxwell]

He could become this year's Marshall Coleman.

I don't think it's very identical (Coleman was a Republican politican for decades before he ran as an independent in that Senate race), but I actually did some research and found that Richard Sarvis did run as a Republican in 2011 for Virginia State Senate and lost in a largely Democratic District 62-36. Him running as a Libertarian could gain more support than the generic Libertarian run because he has already been a GOP nominee before. That's a similarity.

Though it would be more like Marshall Coleman if Bill Bolling ran.

[Tender Branson]

Yeah, I don't know why PPP included him in the poll(or at the least didn't include a head-to-head question w/o the third party candidate).

The results wouldn't change much, because Sarvis takes almost the same amount of votes away from Republicans and Democrats.

[barfbag]

Yeah, I don't know why PPP included him in the poll(or at the least didn't include a head-to-head question w/o the third party candidate).

The results wouldn't change much, because Sarvis takes almost the same amount of votes away from Republicans and Democrats.

A lot can happen between now and November though.