Pro-Life Cuccinelli Draws within 4 points of pro-abortion McAuliffe in race for governor of VA

Next Tuesday Virginians will elect a new governor. The choices could hardly be more stark. Ken Cuccinelli is the pro-life Attorney General; Terry McAuliffe is a pro-abortion Democratic operative with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The major newspapers loathe Cuccinelli and have clobbered him hammer and tong. Negative advertising by the McAuliffe camp and his pro-abortion allies (such as Planned Parenthood’s political arm) has washed over the airwaves in Northern Virginia where my family lives.

But with just a handful of days to go, Cuccinelli received his first good news in a long while.

The respected Quinnipiac University Poll finds “Democrat Terry McAuliffe clinging to a slight 45-41 percent likely voter lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and 9 percent for Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis.” While these are much different results than recent polls have found, it’s some of Quinnipiac’s internals that offer reason for hope.

For example, while there are only 4% of likely voters who say they are undecided, another 7% of those who picked a candidate say there’s a “good chance” they will change their mind before November 5.

As Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said, “State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is nipping at Terry McAuliffe’s heels as the race to be Virginia’s next governor enters the final week of the campaign.” And, of course, “It goes without saying that turnout is the key to this race and the harshly negative tone of the campaign is the kind that often turns off voters.”

If the race is as close as the Quinnipiac University Poll says it is, then the key is the Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis. Typically, support for third party candidates wanes the closer it comes to Election Day.

So while “Almost nine in 10 McAuliffe and Cuccinelli backers are committed,” we learn that “Only six in 10 Sarvis supporters say they definitely will vote for him.”

There is also the composition of Sarvis’s supporters. “Here, too, Sarvis’ voters matter greatly since the libertarian is getting 16 percent of independents, but only 9 percent overall.” Since McAuliffe is doing very well among Independents, it is vital that Cuccinelli pick up from the Independents who currently say they would vote for Sarvis.

The poll’s sample is very large and the margin of error quite small, according to Quinnipiac. 1,182 likely voters were surveyed between October 22 and October 28 “with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points.”

WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP KEN? The race seemed to tighten when Rand Paul came to VA and told libertarians to vote for Cuccinelli....and not for the libertarian spoiler, Sarvis.

Rand should get Dad Ron to tell Sarvis to throw his support to Ken. Sarvis has no chance of winning. Sarvis is only enabling Clinton/McAuliffe to run rampant over Va....now....and in 2016.

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Wheeler-dealer McAuliffe is ogling the VA treasury ....and the conniving Clintons are having wet dreams about Terry fixing the Va vote for Hilly come 2016. VA voters who vote for McAuliffe are making a deal with three devils.

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(Snicker) the "dearly departed" are also McAuliffe voters.

TERRY, THESE GHOULISH THING REMIND ME OF YOU McAuliffe is apparently polling well---and prolly receiving mucho campaign cash---from the "dearly departed" b/c a lawsuit Democrats filed says “the [VA State Board of Elections] is rushing to complete the purging of dead voters in time to have the desired effect on the upcoming gubernatorial election.....to make sure that those who no longer live here don’t vote here."

(cackle) The "dearly departed" are also Hillary voters. Terry is 2016 Hillary's place-keeper. If elected, grave-robber Terry will fix the vote---dead or alive---for Hilly. (That's after he rapes the VA state treasury.)

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DEAD AND READY Another shady example of how the connected ex-DNC chair, Obama suck-up, and Clinton confidant, mixes business with politics to profit himself....with the dead and near-dead as his victims.

<><>McAuliffe apparently lied to VA voters---according to McAuliffe's campaign, he invested $33,000 in the notorious Caramadre death fund and received $80,000 in return, a $47,000 profit. However, documents submitted in Caramadre's trial by federal authorities indicated that McAuliffe's profit was actually $114,000, or $34,000 more than McAuliffe admitted to voters.

<><> According to official RI court records, McAuliffe’s connection to Caramadre came to light via court records linking McAuliffe’s investment directly with the terminally ill, ailing mechanic; official forms identified them as "acquaintances" (apparently a requirement to allow McAuliffe to cash in).

<><> When the irrefutable court records surfaced, McAuliffe’s campaign then said McA did not know the mechanic and doesn’t know why they were listed as "acquaintances."

<><> NOTE: if official files were falsified to profit McAuliffe, that's a felony in any state.

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