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In January and February 2012, both candidates were neck and neck with neither having a decisive lead. In March, Obama was able to pull ahead and beat Romney in most polls until about late September 2012. On October 4, Romney won his first poll in a month, 48% to 45%. Throughout October, Romney won every poll but one for nearly three weeks.
Mitt Romney won the Virginia Republican primary with 59.5% of the vote compared to the Ron Paul's 40.5%.. Later in the year Romney went on to stand against Barack Obama as a Republican in the 2012 US presidential election however Romney failed to secure the state's seat, losing out to Democratic candidate Barack Obama who gained 51.1% of the Virginian vote.
The Old Dominion’s 13 electoral votes are among the most coveted electoral prizes for both presidential campaigns. It is also a battleground at the Senate level, where former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) is facing former Sen. George Allen (R); and the 2nd district House race is also worth keeping an eye on. Voter Suppression
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Virginia, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Virginia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864 during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the election of 1868, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
Statewide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the 2012 United States presidential election, which was won by incumbent President Barack Obama, are as follows. The polls show the status between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama.
In a 2023 examination of hundreds of U.S. election polls dating back to 1998, FiveThirtyEight senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich found that pollsters accurately predicted the winner only 78 ...
The Fall Commonwealth Poll, from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, was conducted Aug. 26-Sept. 6. Poll directors say they plan to ...
The worst Ohio voter turnout for a presidential election since 1978 was in 2000, when George W. Bush won against Al Gore. About 4.8 million ballots were cast, or 63.73% of registered voters. Ohio ...