In the last year of his four-year term, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell remains firmly popular with Virginia voters, getting high marks from independents, Democrats and Republicans on how he is handling his duties as governor and his personal ethics, according to a new Washington Post poll. …
The latest poll numbers come not long after McDonnell claimed a major legislative victory with the passage of a landmark transportation plan and as the FBI raises questions about his relationship with donor and Star Scientific chief executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. [cont.]
Errin Whack & Peyton M. Craighill, Washington Post