tonight as george washington university political science director david brayer about the poll. >> all of the polling i've seen is the economy is dominating people's conversations and the taxes, the spending, even to them it's a liberal state, i think a -- even though it's a liberal state, i think a lot of people are saying i'm not doing much better, so maybe we need to change. >> reporter: a lifelong democratic voter, backer of hillary clinton, she early voted for the republican hogan. >> i went to vote for governor. i had hit the republican selection and it turned out to be -- it popped up to the democrat. >> reporter: sullivan eventually got to successfully vote for the republican, but it raises another issue. reports of about four dozen voters of voting machines in error switching votes from republican to democrat which could prompt more gop voters to the polls in reaction according to our political scientist, but the race still remains brown's to lose. >> if the base turns out enthusiastically, brown wins. >> we did all the brown campaign for comment on that poll. we got a call ba