The latest PPP poll for Virginia shows that the Old Dominion is for Newt Gingrich:
He’s at 41% there to 15% for Mitt Romney with no one else in double digits. Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry at 8%, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul at 6%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, and Gary Johnson at 1% round out the field.
It also has a hankerin’ for George Allen:
There continues to be very little appetite for a Tea Party challenge to George Allen in the Republican Senate race. 65% of primary voters think he’s ideologically about ‘right’ and only 25% express support for a generic ‘more conservative’ alternative to him, compared to 53% think who he should be the party nominee. Against his actual opponents Allen gets 67% to 5% for Jamie Radtke, 3% for E.W. Jackson, and 2% each for Tim Donner and David McCormick. This is one GOP contest where there’s just not a lot of desire for a challenger from the right.
Those numbers are going to sting.
Much further out on the election curve, PPP posits that Ken Cuccinelli is the one:
Finally we took a very early look at the 2013 GOP primary for Governor and again find Ken Cuccinelli with a big early lead over Bill Bolling, 44-25. Both men are popular among Republican voters familiar with them but Cuccinelli is far better known with 73% of voters having an opinion about him to only 48% with one about Bolling. Cuccinelli is riding a huge advantage with Tea Party voters who favor him by 40 points, 58-18. Bolling leads by 25 points with moderates at 47-22, but there just aren’t that many of them.
These numbers, while loads of fun at parties, are no indication whatsoever of how that race will shake-out, in part because the sample size was small, and the margin of error quite large:
PPP surveyed 350 Republican primary voters from December 11th to 13th. The margin of error for the survey is +/-5.2%.
Considering today is the 13th, someone cobbled the data together in an awful hurry.
