Question:
If the election for Senator of Virginia were held today would you vote for [ROTATE]
Ed Gillespie, the Republican 27%
Mark Warner, the Democrat 46%
Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian 5%
Someone else [VOL] 1%
Uncertain 22%

About this Poll
Interviewing for The Roanoke College Poll was conducted by The Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. between September 13 and September 19, 2014. A total of 630 likely voters in Virginia were interviewed. The sample included both land lines and cell phones and was created so that all cell phone and residential telephone numbers, including unlisted numbers, had a known chance of inclusion. Cell phones constituted 31 percent of the completed interviews.

Questions answered by the entire sample of 630 likely voters are subject to a sampling error of plus or minus approximately 3.9 percent at the 95 percent level of confidence. This means that in 95 out of 100 samples like the one used here, the results obtained should be no more than 3.9 percentage points above or below the figure that would be obtained by interviewing all likely voters in Virginia who have a home telephone or a cell phone. The margin of error is larger for any subsets of the 630 total.

Quotas were used to ensure that different regions of the Commonwealth were proportionately represented. The data was statistically weighted for gender, race, and age using the 2013 state exit poll as a benchmark. IPOR does not weight for political party.