VA-GOV (WPA Intelligence/R Internal): McAuliffe +2

[MT Treasurer]

1. Wrong board.

2. Post your "analysis"/hackish commentary after posting the poll, preferably in a separate post.

3. Republicans could lose this by a high single-digit margin (as I suspect they will) and 2022 could still be a R mini-wave/great year for the party. Not a bellwether state, kids!

[MT Treasurer]

Yeah, sorry if that sounded too confrontational, it’s just frustrating to open a thread like this and then already have a narrative forced upon me in the first post instead of just being presented with the actual numbers. We’re all capable of deducing that this is a R-leaning poll/internal (it’s also in the title), so there’s absolutely no need to cherry-pick random crosstabs like Youngkin leading with independents to discredit the entire poll, especially before you even post the actual results. It’s even more frustrating given that this is coming from the same posters who have been doing this for years and haven’t learned a thing from the last (or any) election — it’s like interacting with a brick wall at this point. The same goes for the "Republicans will stay home in 2022 because Trump isn’t on the ballot" narrative, which has been dignified to an absurd extent and taken to extremes by the same robotic posters.