Recovering Pol Artur Davis could win Virginia seat, internal poll suggests

From The Daily Caller:

Artur Davis might actually have a shot at being the first politician in half a century to be elected to Congress in two different states.

Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf has represented his state’s 10^th congressional district for over three decades. In the 2012 election cycle, he cruised to his 17^th consecutive term by a healthy 21-percent margin, despite his district having gone to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney by a 1-percent margin.

Reportedly, Wolf has yet to indicate whether he will seek an 18^th term and retire. But should he forgo reelection, the race for his successor will be wide open, according to preliminary polling — making it possible for even former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who switched political parties in 2012, to be elected in that district as a Republican.

 

With the exception of a brief spell in the late 1970s, Virginia’s 10^th congressional district — which stretches from West Virginia to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. — has traditionally leaned Republican. But if Wolf were to retire, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee would almost certainly have interest in an attempt to take the seat.

A survey conducted by a Republican polling entity on June 30-July 2 — with a sample of 432 and margin of error of 3.44 percent — shows no clear front-runner among a handful of potential Republican candidates that included Davis, Virginia State Sens. Jill Holtzman Vogel and Dick Black, Virginia State Dels. Barbara Comstock and Tim Hugo, and Prince William County Supervisor Corey Stewart.

The survey, commissioned by Davis and given to The Daily Caller by someone who has been shown the data and a polling memo connected with it, reveals Vogel and Black as front-runners but both coming in at under 17 percent with 31 percent of respondents undecided.

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