Opinion: Good news for Huckabee in Virginia

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Talk about a surge!

If one final round of poll numbers is correct, Mike Huckabee has caught one in Virginia. The wave still might not be enough for him to derail John McCain in the state’s primary today, but, if proved true by tonight’s results, it would provide yet another lesson of the discontent within Republican ranks toward the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

SurveyUSA, in its poll of GOP-leaning Virginians taken last Thursday and Friday, gave McCain a healthy 32-percentage-point lead.

Working the phones again on Saturday and Sunday, SurveyUSA found Huckabee had closed that gap to 11 points. The big change was spurred by religiously oriented voters flocking to Huckabee -- the group he focused his attention on during the weekend.

With a trend like that, McCain and his allies can only hope that most Virginians had made up their minds by Monday.

You can read SurveyUSA’s wrap-up on the picture in Virginia here.

-- Don Frederick