Three polls have come out since Creigh Deeds won the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia last Tuesday. Rasmussen put Deeds up by 6 percentage points, and then a poll conducted by the Democratic Governors Association put Deeds ahead, 42 percent to 38 percent.

Now a Daily Kos (D)/Research 2000 poll puts McDonnell up by a point, 45 percent to 44 percent. What this tells us is what a lot of people figured last Tuesday night — Deeds was the best-positioned Democrat in the primary, and this is probably going to be a close, hard-fought race between now and November.

Intriguingly, McDonnell has the best favorable/unfavorable numbers; his are 55/36, President Obama’s are 56/41, and Deeds’s are 47/35.