Poll: Kaine, Allen remain deadlocked

All signs point to the Virginia U.S. Senate race going down to the wire, with former governors George Allen (R) and Tim Kaine (D) still deadlocked in the polls.

A survey Thursday from conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports found the two candidates each earning 46 percent of likely voters. Of those surveyed, 2 percent favored a third-party candidate and 6 percent remained undecided.

In fact, no poll since June has shown either candidate outside the margin of error, an indication that voters remain evenly divided between the two candidates. Democrats' chances at retaining control of the Senate could hinge on the race, in which Allen and Kaine are both seeking to replace retiring Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.).

A poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University also found the race close, with Kaine leading 48-46 percent.

"Virginia's U.S. Senate has been a dead heat since it began," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement. "It's pretty clear that whether George Allen or Tim Kaine becomes the Old Dominion's next senator, it almost certainly will be by a razor-thin margin."

The same Rasmussen poll found President Obama with a 48-46 percent advantage in Virginia over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The poll carried a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

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