Election 2012: Virginia Senate
Virginia Senate: Kaine (D) 47%, Allen (R) 45%
Monday, September 17, 2012
Democrat Tim Kaine has moved slightly ahead of Republican George Allen in Virginia's neck-and-neck U.S. Senate race.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Virginia Voters finds Kaine with 47% support to Allen's 45%. Two percent (2%) like another candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here .
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Virginia was conducted on September 13, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology.