(It's good to see people taking notice of Webb....)
Late last October, with a little more than a week left before the gubernatorial election, The Washington Post published a poll that showed Democrat Tim Kaine with a small, but significant lead over Republican Jerry Kilgore.
In response, Kilgore campaign manager Ken Hutcheson ripped the Post poll as ridiculous and contemptible.
Kaine, of course, won the governor's race by a comfortable six-point margin, racking up wins in once reliably Republican enclaves in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia.
There's another big race this year, this time between incumbent Republican Sen. George Allen and Democrat James Webb - and a poll just came out.
Conducted by pollster John Zogby for The Wall Street Journal, the survey suggests the Senate race will be a real contest, with Allen leading Webb by a narrower margin than anticipated, 48.8 percent to 43.5 percent.
Cue Allen's campaign manager: "The Wall Street Journal should be embarrassed to print this," said Dick Wadhams. "This poll is a joke ... Zogby has long ago been discredited."
What, not ridiculous and contemptible?
(more here:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-61831sy0jun29,0,2525935.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials