CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A new University of Mary Washington poll released on the first day of Virginia’s early voting shows the Commonwealth in a dead heat in the Presidential race. UMW’s Center For Leadership and Media Studies Director Stephen Farnsworth says the poll of 1000 likely voters shows Kamala Harris with 47-percent of the vote and Donald Trump with 46. Other polls Farnsworth refers to are VCU’s a couple of weeks ago that had Harris with a 10-point lead, and Morning Consult showing Harris ahead by 7.

He says one would expect different results across polling over time. For example, he would expect a poll today to reflect the debate reaction, as well as Trump’s allegations about Haitian immigrants… as well as the week’s fed interest rate cut. But he says this poll indicates the campaigns should perhaps spend more time looking at Virginia as winnable since we may well once again be a swing state. Click here for the complete poll results.