Reporting from the Old Dominion, Ed Gillespie remains 7-9 points behind Mark Warner, and I don’t see him closing that gap by election day. Gillespie has run one of the most lackluster campaigns I’ve ever seen and for all his political acumen (
(former RNC chairman, senior White House aide), Gillespie had trouble attracting donors for much of the year—his first ad buy in the critical D.C. market didn’t begin until late September.
Of course, it doesn’t help that more than a dozen RINOs (including former Senator John Warner) have endorsed the Democrat incumbent, Mark Warner. The only good news for Republicans in Virginia this election cycle is that Eric Cantor was sent packing and it looks like Barbara Comstock will hang on to Frank Wolf’s Congressional seat in northern Virginia. Unfortunately, the Virginia GOP is still at war with itself and won’t win very many statewide races until that conflict ends (i.e., the Tea Party displaces the RINOs)
Ok, I’ll remove that one from the “trending.” I did see one poll that had Warner slipping, but probably not that much.
Reporting from the Old Dominion, Ed Gillespie remains 7-9 points behind Mark Warner, and I don’t see him closing that gap by election day. Gillespie has run one of the most lackluster campaigns I’ve ever seen and for all his political acumen (
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What has to be extremely troubling for Mark Warner is that his last two internal campaign polls have shown his lead to be in free fall and that was before the Washington Post (I still can’t believe I’m writing that) broke #BRIBESTORM. According to anonymous sources close to Warner, his most recent poll only gave him a +4 lead over Gillespie, which is down from the +6 lead in his previous internal campaign poll (and that was down from a +10 lead in the poll before that, which corresponds with the MWU poll.)
https://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/exclusive-mark-warners-internal-polls-in-free-fall/