Virginia voters know little about the two candidates for governor, according to a new Washington Post poll looking at the Ken Cuccinelli-Terry McAuliffe race. Cuccinelli, the Republican attorney general, has a 51 percent-to-41 percent lead over McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee, among likely voters, according to the Post poll. The defining numbers in the poll aren’t there, though, but rather in the limited information on the candidates among the voter base and the limited interest in the race in general among state residents.
Fifty-two percent of voters surveyed said they know just a little or nothing at all about Cuccinelli, despite him serving in a statewide office the past four years, while 70 percent know a little or nothing at all about McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman.
The Post poll also had Bill Bolling the choice of 15 percent of voters were the two-term lieutenant governor involved in a three-way race with Cuccinelli and McAuliffe. Cuccinelli’s lead would narrow to four points over McAuliffe in that scenario.
Bolling announced in March that he would not mount a third-party effort for governor in 2013 after giving the idea strong consideration.
The Post poll also had the approval rating for the sitting Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, at 62 percent, and reported that only 32 percent of voters are following the details of the FBI investigation into McDonnell’s dealings with a businessman who reportedly gave the governor gifts in return for political favors.
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