Webb’s Internals

From the latest Jim Webb campaign email, here are the purported internal poll numbers:

·Once voters are read a short positive profile of each candidate, the race is in a statistical dead heat (Webb 44%, Allen 43%).
·In the current ballot, Allen leads by 7%, 46% to 39%, but falls short of 50%.
·While Virginians are generally hopeful about the course of the Commonwealth, they are pessimistic about the direction of the country as a whole and feel that the President's policies, which Senator Allen almost uniformly supports, are not working.
·Four in ten voters say that Allen is doing only a fair or poor job as Senator and over a majority (62%) believes George W. Bush is doing a fair or poor job as President.

Internals must always be viewed with some skepticism, but if true, George Allen is in for a long, hard battle.

Comments

[Bob]

My understanding is that sometimes those questions on surveys can be helpful in deciding which issues to highlight and how to frame the issue.

What makes you think otherwise?

[Jerry Fuhrman]

If someone is at the polls to read each voter a short positive profile of each candidate, I expect the results to be very close ...

This survey is worthless.