The result was that Robert McDonnell widened his winning margin from 323 votes to 360 votes.
Those voters could very well provide the winning margin in what promises to be a close race.
Partly as a result of that scepticism, the Tories are (again) consolidating an election-winning margin in the polls.
In 2008, Obama improved his winning margin with Latino voters from 67% in 2008 to 69% in 2012.
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John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, cannot count on rural voters to provide him a winning margin in the November presidential election.
Ireland require a two-goal winning margin against Saudi Arabia to assure themselves of a place in the second round.
The Fighting Irish barely made a chip-shot field goal that provided the winning margin with less than 5 minutes remaining.
The Welshmen eventually crossed the line twice more when Vince Mellars put Tansey clear before Reardon extended the winning margin further.
The next day, a Florida circuit court upheld the state's results, giving George W. Bush a winning margin of 537 votes.
His closest challenger at Scottsdale, Brandt Snedeker, got within three shots but a dropped shot at the last extended Mickelson's winning margin.
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This could cut into Christie's winning margin, which he hopes will be large enough to use as a selling point in a 2016 presidential run.
But the story of the day saw Much Wenlock beat Allscott by 363 runs - the biggest winning margin in the league's history.
Ireland were on the receiving end of a battering by now and they were forced to fight hard simply to restrict France's winning margin.
The winning margin would have been greater but for the heroics of Kelvin Davis, who produced a string of fine saves in the Wimbledon goal.
The last meeting between the sides was altogether more comfortable for Wales, whose 98-0 win at the Millennium Stadium in 2004 was their biggest-ever winning margin.
There were 43 cars in the 500 mile race and the winning margin was one foot with eight cars crossing the finish line nearly at the same time.
Brady had a pedestrian passing day (22 of 36 for 236 yards, 2 interceptions), though it was the quarterback's daring fourth down, one-yard plunge that provided the winning margin.
It was the closest winning margin in Ashes history and Jim Maxwell's commentary of Steve Harmison claiming the final wicket is just as thrilling now as it was then.
Ferguson's side had plenty of chances in the first half to make the winning margin more handsome before Frank Lampard got a goal back for Chelsea in the 68th minute.
The 31-year-old Garmin rider snatched the pink jersey from Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez on the final time trial stage in Milan, forging a winning margin of just 16 seconds after 21 stages.
India had set a relatively good target of 226 for six from their 50 overs, but Australia are in sparkling form and replied with a winning margin of 230 and three balls to spare.
The Star Tribune reported that the race was almost certainly headed to a recount as, under state law, recounts are required in races with a winning margin of less than one half of 1%.
That winning run continued into Sunday as the Frenchman won the opening two tests of the day to extend that lead to 31.1 seconds before easing back his pace to eventually claim a winning margin of 24.3 seconds.
Coming on the back of Matt Gidley's try just two minutes earlier, it earned Saints the winning margin they needed to shade second place from Warrington, who they will now host at Knowsley Road next Friday night (2000 BST).
Jones added another three points with his second penalty to put the result beyond doubt before two injury-time tries gave Llanelli their greatest winning cup final margin.
It beat Schwartzel's 2010 record winning total and margin for the tournament of 261 and six shots respectively, and his score to par of -27 was the equal second lowest in European Tour history.
The incentive structure in the sport means that wrestlers on the margin of achieving a winning record have far more to gain from winning than opponents, not on the margin, stand to lose if defeated.
"All the signs point to Boris winning by a small margin of between 2% and 8%, " said Murphy.
Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
In the quarter-final she had an excellent start, and led the field all the way down the course winning with a comfortable margin.
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