MAKE IT STOP!
It’s almost over, or so we’re told. However, as if meant to be one last cosmic insult to our overburdened eyes and ears before Election Day, Barack Obama’s re-election campaign told Politico over the weekend that it doubled its advertising buy in Virginia for the final hours before the polls close.
Good grief. It seems like it might never end, but the calendar says it must tomorrow night. However, with Election Day just a few hours away, that also means one final round of that other most insufferable element of campaigns: the polls. Curse D.C.’s rotten luck for being next door to a battleground state.
In the final round of polls attempting to project which candidate will land Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, the president holds a slim lead in three, with Mitt Romney edging out the president in one.
A poll by NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Marist College gave Obama 48 percent to Romney’s 47 percent. A survey commissioned by Let Freedom Ring, a Republican-leaning group found Obama ahead 48-47. Obama got a much larger lead in a poll by JZ Analytics, which found him ahead 50 percent to 42 percent in poll of 814 voters queried between Friday and Sunday.
Only Rasmussen Reports put Romney ahead, 50 percent to 48 percent. Aside from JZ Analytics, the other three polls all fell within their margins of error. So, yeah, Virginia is just as much a swing as ever.
And on the final full day of campaigning, the Obama and Romney camps are treating it as such. Vice President Joe Biden landed at Dulles International Airport a little while ago ahead of rallies in Richmond and Sterling, where he will be joined by the singer John Mellencamp. Romney was in the state today for events in Lynchburg and Fairfax. (Obama made his final swing through Virginia on Saturday night, when he was joined by former President Bill Clinton, Senate candidate Tim Kaine and the singer Dave Matthews.)
Who knows, there could be more tracking polls released later this evening, but at this point, we’re as polled out as you are. So this is the very last post of this election cycle that you will see on this website about the latest polling in Virginia. Come Wednesday, we’ll get back to making fun of the Old Dominion’s lousy drivers and risible attorney general.
