From the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute:
For the first time in this election cycle, President Barack Obama inches ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the leading Republican candidate, 47 – 43 percent in Virginia, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Romney has a commanding lead among likely Republican primary voters in the state’s no-Newt Gingrich presidential primary.
Today’s results contrast to results of a December 21 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, showing Romney with 44 percent and President Obama with 42 percent.
Virginia voters still give the president a slightly negative 46 – 49 percent job approval rating. They split 46 – 48 percent on whether Obama deserves a second term in the Oval Office, but that represents a serious improvement from December when voters said 53 – 41 percent he did not deserve four more years.
In the state’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race Democrat Tim Kaine has 45 percent to Republican George Allen’s 44 percent.
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