Poll: Webb has slight edge on Sen. Allen in Va.
2006-11-01
Source: USA Today
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rss feedDemocrat Jim Webb is slightly ahead of Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen with a week to go in a key race that could determine control of the Senate, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The poll by Opinion Research Corp. is the first to show Webb with an advantage in the bruising and expensive contest in once reliably Republican Virginia.
Among likely voters surveyed, 50% favored Webb, a former Republican who served as Navy Secretary in the Reagan administration, while 46% favored Allen, and 4% were undecided.
Webb's edge is equal to the margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, meaning he can be considered slightly ahead. The result is based on telephone interviews conducted for CNN from Oct. 26-29 among 597 registered Virginia voters who said they were likely to vote.
Among the larger sample of 904 registered voters, the results were about even, with 48% of the respondents backing Webb, 46% for Allen and 5% undecided. Independent Gail Parker also is on the ballot.
The latter two days of the survey overlapped intensive news coverage of Allen's claim that selected sexually explicit passages in some of Webb's six gritty novels about war are demeaning to women.
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