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Democrat should be terrified by this Governor's race.
The New York Post ^
| 10/21/2017
| Selena Zito
Posted on 10/22/2017 5:40:43 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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KEYWORDS: democrats; gillispie; mcauliffe; northam; zito
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Comments....please.
To: JLAGRAYFOX
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:44:45 AM PDT
by
dontreadthis
(I finally came up with this tagline)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Better start over on this one. Your links dont work (at least for me) so we have no idea what your post is about.
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:47:07 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Is this Virginia race with Never Trumper Rove Democrat running against a Democrat?
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:47:37 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
To: dontreadthis
Sorry, I screwed up posting. Good article on Virginia Governor’s race. You all should read it in the New York Post, Zalena Zito, 10/21/2017. A defeat in the governor’s election for the Democrats just about political destroys the entire Democrat Party, nationwide.
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:48:35 AM PDT
by
JLAGRAYFOX
(Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:48:45 AM PDT
by
stockpirate
(SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks via murdered ex-UK Amb, murdered he was, cover up it is)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Well,is the Republican a *real* Republican? Hell,we have a "Republican" Governor here in Massachusetts and the polls,we're told,suggest that he's *wildly* popular.
The problem is that he's really a Rat.
Virginia is populated largely by people who get very large government checks (*United States* Government) on a weekly or monthly basis.So the fact that the "Republican" might win doesn't necessarily mean anything.
To: JLAGRAYFOX
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posted on
10/22/2017 5:58:08 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Seems to me we don’t have a dog in the hunt. Both candidates are Uniparty members in good standing. Sucks to be VA.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:01:42 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Enchante
WINCHESTER, VA. The melodic sounds of a street musicians trumpet echo through every corner of this old Virginia town as locals shop or make their way to lunch. Daren Johnson has been blowing his horn at the pedestrian mall in the shadow of the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum for over an hour. He performs for two reasons: To make some extra cash and to share a little bit of lightness. We are exhausted as a country, he said, a direct result of last years election.
Johnson and his wife were tireless volunteers for Hillary Clinton last year. They knocked on doors, they made phone calls, they were invested. When she lost, the couple was devastated. Now, Johnson doesnt even know who is running for governor.
Ive voted every year for the past 46 years, always informed, always enthusiastic, always involved in the process. Now, its really hard to care, Johnson said.
The upcoming gubernatorial election in Virginia is one of only two happening in the country this year, along with New Jersey. The race pits Ralph Northam, the current lieutenant governor and a Democrat, against Ed Gillespie, a former George W. Bush administration official and Republican National Committee chairman.
Northam should have a comfortable lead right now. Terry McAuliffe, the outgoing governor he currently serves under, is popular and generally seen as successful. Plus, Virginians have historically elected governors from the party opposite to a president whos won the year before. In 2001, Democrat Mark Warner won one year after George W. Bush was elected; in 2009, Republican Bob McDonnell won one year after Barack Obama took the state.
And, of course, there is the Trump factor Clinton beat the president comfortably here, although almost all of her vote came from the heavily populated, heavily liberal Northern Virginia suburbs with the rest of the state (mostly rural, mostly forgotten) going for Donald Trump with the exception of the state capital and some college towns.
But Northams numbers are not up in fact, the last three public polls show next months race within the margin of error. That includes a Monmouth University poll released Tuesday, which gives Gillespie the edge over Northam among likely voters by 48 to 47 percent.
Both parties have pulled out all the stops for this race. Ex-president Obama was here for a rally; George W. Bush for a fundraiser. Joe Bidens stumped here, so has Vice President Mike Pence. So far, Trump has only tweeted about the race: Ralph Northam, who is running for Governor of Virginia, is fighting for the violent MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities. Vote Ed Gillespie!
Gillespie has avoided broadcasting that endorsement on the campaign trail. There are no mentions of it on his website. After Trump claimed there were some very fine people on both sides of a neo-Nazi protest in nearby Charlottesville that left one woman dead, Gillespies spokesman Dave Abrams said the candidate did not see any fine people on the side of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But Gillespie has not directly criticized Trump either.
Meanwhile Stephanie Vaughan, the Democratic county chairperson in Winchester, says the party is working hard to clinch victory by appealing to a wider crowd. We very much try to have a big-tent approach here. We welcome moderate, progressive and conservative Democrats into our party, and we encourage everyone to listen to our message, she said. Here our issues are pretty straightforward transportation, education and health care.
Behind the counter of her coffee shop, Lanita Byrne said she did not vote for Trump and loved Clinton but is completely undecided on which candidate she wants for governor. Honestly it comes down to who is best on taxes. I think there should be less burdens and more opportunities for small-business owners, she said.
Clark Hansbarger, meanwhile, said he saw the Trump win coming from a mile away. I kept telling all of my liberal friends, and they would just laugh at me. They thought no way, he said. Hansbarger then chuckles and admits he, too, is a liberal. But, look, I travel a lot. When Trump spoke about carnage in his inaugural address, Ive seen exactly what he meant all over the country, he said.
Johnson begins to play his trumpet again, then stops. I guess Ill vote, he admits. But honestly I am sick of both parties . . . and I am not voting straight ticket, that is for sure.
Certainly the Democrats are the ones with the most to lose. The party has had a year to craft the perfect message offering voters an alternative to the Republicans in power. Have they succeeded? Maybe. If not, the rejection could be almost as bad as the pain they were dealt nationally last year. Once again, a race easily within their grasp could slip through their fingers because they failed to excite their base.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:03:10 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: Gay State Conservative
He’s the type of “Republican” that you have to hold your nose to vote for because the Dem running is a worse alternative. IMO the Dem is going to win. I’m for letting DC annex (or whatever it takes) northern Virginia so the rest of the state can elect Republicans (preferably supporters of MAGA not GOPe/RINO.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:04:16 AM PDT
by
Qiviut
(Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
To: mewzilla
Gillespie is a crap RINO, but it would still be great fun to see the panic in the Democrats and MSM if they lose this race, imho.
At least it would be entertaining for all the wailing and gnashing of liberal teeth..... but agreed, we have no use for RINO CINO Gillespie.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:05:10 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: Reno89519
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:08:27 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Enchante
I’m wondering if the wailing is all for show. After all, the Uniparty doesn’t give a rat’s hairy hind end about the letter after the name getting their deals done.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:08:28 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Enchante
“Gillespie is a crap RINO, but it would still be great fun to see the panic in the Democrats and MSM if they lose this race, imho.”
If Gillespie is elected, hopefully he’ll have sense not to be accepting large loans personal gifts from donors like the last GOP governor McDonnell. While McDonnell’s conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court, had he not engaged in behavior which had the appearance of impropriety, he would not have been tried, convicted, and removed from office. Too many politicians of both parties have an inflated sense of entitlement. It is long past time for politicians to aspire to be virtuous men and women instead of seeking to use public office to feather their nests.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:12:02 AM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
To: Enchante
Gillespie is your run of the mill RINO. He is USDA Grade A Prime RINO. He is a RINOs RINO. He defines RINO. Look RINO up in the dictionary and you see his picture.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:14:37 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Enchante
Gillespie is
NOT your run of the mill RINO.
Fixed.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:18:09 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: InterceptPoint
Got to see what will happen in 2018 especially in Connecticut since Gov. Malloy drove the state into a tree, a barn and then a ditch.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:31:32 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is :-))
To: JLAGRAYFOX
Haven’t read the article, but VA should be an easy win for an R, if they ran with a Pro Trump Agenda candidate. If R’s win it handily with an establishment GOPe guy like Gillespie, then the Democratic Party is absolutely done as a national party
To: HamiltonJay
Theres just too many Rats in northern Virginia to overcome. VA is lost sad to say.
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