McDonnell Defeats Deeds … in U.Va. Mock Election
The results are in from the online youth mock election sponsored annually by the U.Va. Center for Politics‘ Youth Leadership Initiative.
In the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Bob McDonnell (pictured at right) bested Democrat Creigh Deeds by a margin of 51 percent to 44 percent, with the rest being write-in votes (those kids!). If that result repeats itself in the real voting tomorrow, it would end a run of two straight Democratic governors.
In the New Jersey governor’s race, Democrat Jon Corzine breezed to an easy win over Republican Chris Christie and independent Chris Daggett. Corzine claimed 45 percent of the vote, to 33 percent for Christie and 12 percent for Daggett. The remaining 10 percent was split among nine other candidates. (Speculation: the large field must have resulted from a lot of unemployed candidates looking for work and a low barrier to getting on the ballot in New Jersey).
In all, 313,000 votes were cast in this year’s only national student poll.
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