Warner gains, Allen slides in home-state White House prefer
2006-09-12
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch
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rss feedDemocrat Mark R. Warner looks better as a presidential prospect to home-state voters now than he did 14 months ago when he was governor, according to new statewide poll results published Tuesday.
The state's other White House aspirant, Republican Sen. George Allen, lost support since the same poll gauged Virginians' native son presidential preferences in July 2005.
Fifty-four percent of those Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. surveyed last week said Warner should run for president in 2008 compared with just 42 percent in the same in July 2005. Those who said he should not run decreased from 39 percent to 23 percent. Another 23 percent were undecided in the latest poll compared with 19 percent previously.
When asked whether they would vote for the multimillionaire businessman-turned-governor if he is the 2008 Democratic nominee, 56 percent said yes, 30 percent said no, and 14 percent were undecided totals almost unchanged since the previous survey.
Warner left office in January with record high job-approval ratings, despite orchestrating a budget-balancing 2004 tax increase, and has toured key early presidential nomination venues such as Iowa and New Hampshire since.
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