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error within the current poll ranges from 3.5 percent for the entire group, to 15 percent for the smallest subgroup, the 45 respondents from the Northern Neck/Peninsula regions.
Voters interviewed were put into the categories by region, including Northern Virginia (including Fairfax and Loudoun counties), the Central Piedmont (including Fauquier and Rappahannock counties), and the Shenandoah (including Clarke and Warren counties).
Among those three regions, Northern Virginia was most supportive of the lottery, at 62 percent in favor, while Shenandoah was least supportive, at 48 percent.
In the Central Piedmont, 52 percent of voters said they would vote in favor of the lottery.
Across the Commonwealth, 52 percent of those polled said that a lottery would help keep state taxes from being increased. Likewise, 57 percent said that a lottery would provide a lot of money for state-funded services such as education and road improvements.
Virginians appear to have differing opinions regarding ways to spend money raised through a lottery. According to the poll of early 1987, 53 percent favored putting the money into the Virginia general fund, while 26 percent favored using lottery proceeds to improve transportation in the Commonwealth.
Significantly, 45 percent of Northern Virginia voters favored the lottery-for-transportation arrangement, while 20 to 22 percent of voters in the Shenandoah and Central Piedmont regions favored that plan.
According to the most recent poll, of those Virginians who opposed the lottery, 62 percent characterized their opposition as “strong.”
Moral opposition to gambling was cited by 51 percent of those opposed, while 22 percent
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