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Poll Demographics

All likely voters 44% 55%

Men 39 59
Women 48 50

White 34 64
African American 89 10

Age 18-34 53 46
Age 35-64 43 55
Age 65+ 39 59

Democrats 94 6
Republicans 4 95
Independents 36 61

Liberal Democrats 95 5
Mod/cons. Democrats 93 6

Mod/lib. Republicans 7 91
Conservative Reps. 2 97

Democratic men 92 8
Democratic women 95 4
Republican men 4 95
Republican women 4 95
Independent men 33 64
Independent women 40 57

Military veterans 34 66

Northern Virginia 56 43
Inner suburbs 60 39
Rest of state 38 60
Southeast 43 54
East/Richmond 37 62
West/Shenandoah 36 63

Obama '08 voter 85 14
McCain '08 voter 4 95

Kaine '05 voter 76 22
Kilgore '05 voter 2 97

About this Poll

This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone October 22-25, 2009, among a random sample of 1,206 likely voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, Pa.