Our responsibility is to scrutinize the data we report as carefully as we do the sources we quote in stories. By publishing numbers of uncertain quality or ones lacking essential context, we amplify those findings, and risk misleading you.
None of the recent polls in the Virginia governor’s race meet our current criteria for reporting polls: Two primary ones were by Interactive Voice Response, commonly known as “robopolls,” and the third was a partial release from one of the candidates eager to change the campaign story line.
The only poll that matters is the one on June 9.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Refreshing to see a news organization take a reasoned approach to polls. We’re all to often guilty of publishing questionable polling to advance the horserace story line.
You are right Steve, glad to see them say, they just don’t know
and let the voters decide!