[highball]

"11 points behind the satan candidate... mcauliffe.

I just do not understand how this can be. (Not doubting you).

Couple reasons for it:

1. Virginia is more purple than we want to admit;
2. the current Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, is a corrupt scumbag. As in selling-his-influence-for-cash-and-gifts corrupt, which tarnishes the entire GOP;
3. Cuccinelli has been implicated in the same corruption scandal, although to nowhere near the same degree; and
4. even setting that aside, Cuccinelli has been a terrible candidate.

We're lucky that the Dems are running McAuliffe. Anybody less slimy, less obviously immersed in and saturated with DC swamp water and we'd be down by 25 points. Eleven looks like a godsend.

[CatherineofAragon]

I think you’re right on all counts. McDonnell is in it up to his neck, and if Cuccinelli loses, McDonnell will bear the responsibility for a part of that, IMO.

I’m still waiting for the Cuccinelli ads to counter those put out by McAuliffe. Ken keeps running the one about that Chinese factory....does he really think he can win on that issue?

[LibLieSlayer]

I do not doubt any of what you say. Why can’t Virginia find a decent person that could win?