GOP candidate surrenders in Virginia Senate race?

Hot Air ^ | posted at 6:01 pm on October 16, 2014 by Noah Rothman

[Perdogg]

The race for U.S. Senate in Virginia has not been a particularly competitive one. In a year in which Democratic incumbents across the country are finding themselves in hot water, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) seems to have escaped the voters’ wrath. The revelation that Warner has been caught up in a federal investigation following the admission that he had engaged in quid pro quo discussions with a state senator in order to persuade him to not quit the Senate and surrender that institution’s control to Republicans has, however, upended the conventional wisdom surrounding the race for Senate in Old Dominion.

[Perdogg]

I haven't seen many ads in NoVa

[Perdogg]

ping

[palmer]

I have seen Warner’s happy talk ad about bringing high tech jobs to SW Virginia. I have not seen establishment republican guy’s ads, but I don’t watch much.

[wastoute]

Gillespie is one of the GOPe. As incumbents they have a prayer. As challengers warm spit is more exciting.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants may not be the bogeyman many Republicans think it is, GOP strategist Ed Gillespie and pollster John McLaughlin said Wednesday, based on focus groups with conservatives in Iowa and South Carolina.

For one thing, many Republicans outside the Beltway don’t know what a pathway to citizenship is, much less whether they support or oppose it, according to McLaughlin and Gillespie. “When you bring up the phrase ‘pathway to citizenship,’ they don’t know what it means,” McLaughlin said. “There’s no reaction.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/ed-gillespie-republicans-immigration-_n_2967110.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ed-gillespie-raises-18-million-in-third-quarter-in-virginia-governors-race/2014/10/16/3e070090-554e-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html

They might save the money for Cantor’s Gubernatorial race in 2017.

[ought-six]

A friend of mine retired from the military (he was an O-6) in 2010, moved to No. VA and landed a cushy job as a government contractor. He was a millionaire within two years. And he went from a conservative to supporting libs. He sold his soul.

[pallis]

The Republican left doesn’t know how to campaign against Democrats. They are too geared towards destroying the Republican base and conservatism.

[Gay State Conservative]

Virginia’s a lost cause.Too many people depending on government checks...checks of both the welfare and “paycheck” variety.

[Chewbarkah]

Maybe Ed Gillespie should challenge Mark Warner to list exactly what he has done for the State as Senator, other than vote for whatever Obama wants, and trying to rig the state legislature? Warner is smart, so maybe he can make up something. He seems to be AWOL. Created hi-tech jobs in SW Virginia? Oh yes, it’s a regular Silicon Valley.

[Bogey78O]

Pretty common thing. There really are few Democrats that practice any sort of ethics. They’re bound to get unethical Republicans on their side.

[VeniVidiVici]

Neither candidate lists party affiliation in their ads. Watching Warner you’d think he’s a Republican

[FlipWilson]

The GOPe never dreamed that they would have a chance in this race and prepared to do with it what they do in all races that aren’t layups, namely, quit. Suddenly, Warner finds himself in hot water for an attempted bribe and there is zero, zilch cash available to exploit it. Where is Whiteboard GPS? Nevermind, he is busy trying to explain why he advised Bush to bury that we had found WMD’s in Iraq. Don’t want to offend those moderates.

[Hoodat]

Virginia is a lost cause because the state GOP is actively working on behalf of the Democrat Party. They worked fervently to see that McAuliffe defeated Ken Cuccinelli, and have now topped it off by assuring that Warner wins another term. They made the move to the dark side back when Oliver North ran for the Senate, and they have never looked back.

[Dave W]

So true.

[Timocrat]

It doesn’t help that the ex-senator and RINO nonpareil Elizabeth Taylor’s husband has endorsed the Democrat incumbent.

[SunkenCiv]

Ed Gillespie for Senate.

• Virginia Senate Race Gets Interesting
• Warner discussed job for Puckett’s daughter
• Sen. Mark Warner under investigation [for attempting to bribe a state senator]
• Mark Warner Struggles to Answer Allegations of Quid Pro Quo for Judgeship
• Mark Warner Appears to Have Committed a Crime to Advance Obamacare
• Virginia Dem Refuses To Address 250,000 Taxpayers Who Lost Healthcare Due To Obamacare
• “Staggering Numbers” Of Virginians Will Lose Plans And Pay More Due To ObamaCare

[Maelstorm]

I do know that Gillespie is going to be running 300k in ads. He has closed the race. Warner’s support is dropping but the only question is whether it is fast enough. Sarvis is a bit of a spoiler. When he is out of the equation its a 1 point race in the latest poll which I’ve linked below. There is a very real possibility that come election day this race could be an upset especially if Gillespie has decent GOTV. Warner is betting the whole game on NVA. I’ve seen very little presence down state. Warner is being hurt by bribegate.

http://www.umw.edu/news/files/2014/10/2014-UMW-VA-Survey-Fall-2014_Topline-1.pdf

[Yosemitest]

DemocRATs don't NEED ads to win elections.
DemocRATs are SEALING ELECTIONS BEFORE we vote !

Here's a MUST WATCH VIDEO about STEALING ELECTIONS !
Make sure you tell ALL your acquaintances to watch it, and watch it RIGHT NOW !

HBO Hacking Democracy The Pima County Way, Card Reader and RTA Election. ( 16:30 )
By AUDITAZ Uploaded on Apr 24, 2011

In the RTA election of May 16, 2006 more than 100 optical scanners failed on Election Day at various precincts.

Election day I was out inspecting precincts and once I found that a large number of optical scanners were failing to work at the precincts.
I called Rep. Ted Downing, (Chair of State Party Election Integrity committee) also (at that time) the Chair of our county party "Donna Branch-G".
Both went to the election department to see what the problem was
and that is when they found the Microsoft -Access manual open right next to the central tabulator.

Donna and Ted took pictures of this.
Both were told that they had no oversight rights because
this was a nonpartisan election
thus stopping us from actually finding out
if MS-access was on the system
and if the central tabulator networked to other computers in the office.
By the time we got to check the computer several months later the program was gone.
However, we did find MS-Access on the Maricopa Election Department and that system count 58% of the vote state wide.

The Diebold-GEMS software is built on MS-Access program.
It is illegal by state law to have software that has not been approved and or certified by the SOS office such as MS- Access.
This is because
MS Access easily backdoors the database
and one could change anything they want by passing the GEMS Audit log.

To make it worse
the normal backup which was always done EVERY election night
and/or major event was not until the following Friday at 5:01pm.

Additional Facts:
In the case of the RTA, the election department after processing 13,000 early ballots 6 days out,
went in early the next morning
and did a backup over that database
destroying that file called "early ballots day 1"
and replaced it with a new day 1 backup,
then illegally printed (5 days before the election) 2 election summary reports 10 minutes apart.
These reports by law are not supposed to be printed until one hour after the polls close.
Such a process took many computer moves that could never be a simple "slip of the finger".

Fact: Even though Brian Crane told the Judge Miller
this was a normal practice,
examination of the computer logs showed this had only been done one other time since 2000.
In actuality, Bryan Crane did backups at lunch
and before he went home at night.

AUDIT-AZ
Producer: John R Brakey
Esq: Bill Risner
BBV: Jim March