Terry McAuliffe has spent four years rallying Virginia Democrats around his latest gubernatorial bid, but a new poll shows he still faces an uphill climb with voters who don’t know him or who think his Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, is better prepared to be governor.
In the first poll done since Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced that he would not enter the race as an independent, Quinnipiac University found that Cuccinelli and McAuliffe remain in a statistical tie, with Cuccinelli getting 40 percent to McAuliffe’s 38 percent.
But the poll released Wednesday also shows that Cuccinelli holds a distinct advantage over McAuliffe in name recognition, and his work as a state senator and as the state’s top lawyer has 44 percent of voters believing that Cuccinelli has the experience to be governor.
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This article first appeared in the Washington Examiner on March 27, 2013.