Posted on 11/05/2013 7:05:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrat Terry McAuliffe is projected to win the Virginia gubernatorial race, defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli in a surprisingly close victory.
Fox News projected McAuliffe as the winner Tuesday night.
The closely watched raced pitted a Tea Party-backed Republican and an establishment Democrat locked in an expensive, ideological battle whose outcome is expected to set a course for the 2014 and 2016 elections -- in large part forcing the GOP to consider whether a strong conservative candidate is the party’s best pick to win a national election.
Cuccinelli, trailing late by single digits, tried unsuccessfully to use voter dissatisfaction with ObamaCare to stage a come-from-behind victory over the better-funded McAuliffe....
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Nail on head. Unless we can win the areas where people live instead of cows, we are doomed. Yes we won in NJ big time. Christie was winning a variety of demographics up and down. But don’t worry, he will be savaged unmercifully by his own side. We will nominate someone who appeals to the where the cows live, and receive 41% of the vote in 2016.
If you live in Virginia, might I suggest moving? The state is lost at this point. If my state does not pull its head out of its collective ass in 2014, I am leaving; possibly the country depending on 2016.
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Not all of it. Just the “government zone” which is N. Virginia ...a melting pot of stinko latte loving liberals, brain dead women, government worker flunkees, and illegal parasites ...all feeding at the trough in one way or another.
We’re moving. Getting the house ready now. Can’t wait to get out of this place and away from these disgusting people. It gets worse by the day.
I love how they all just suffered so much from the shutdown. A three-week paid vacation ...on the taxpayer. And yet they somehow manage to feel sorry for themselves.
Of course a conservative can win. Something like 53% of the voters rejected the Democrat. A candidate that kept the 46% or so who voted for Cuccinelli and added even half of the libertarian voters would have won. And that is possible without becoming some kind of mushy RINO.
It is a lot easier for a Conservative to pick up some libertarians than it is for a RINO to pick up liberals from the Democratic candidate.
Not really, the majority of voters (52.5%) rejected the liberal Democrat. A conservative candidate who picks up half of the libertarians would have won.
Not what I was suggesting, losertarian.
How much voter fraud this time? The RATs have perfected it, ya think?
I guess you missed the conditional phrase in my statement. 2000 was close, as close as it gets and even though there was considerable evidence of election tampering, I'll concede you that one....even though it 13 years ago. 2004 wasn't even close by election standards nor was I referring to just presidential elections. But hey, thanks for the kind words.
If we had a media which was impartial “Cooch” would have won. Issues like the Sarvis stalking horse funding as well as the nationalizing of the campaign which I advocated in my 2007 campaign opus http://www.theusmat.com/home.htm are some of the moves made if they had any coverage beside supplemental advertising would have made a difference.
What I wish the Cuccinelli campaign could do if they have any money left is survey those areas where the count was low and see if any of their messages got out.
Agree.
Democrats were committing vote fraud all the way back to Jackson or even before. In the 1940s, insane asylums and cemeteries almost had “open houses” on election day because of the Democrats showing up to vote the mad and the dead.
In fact it became so terribly institutionalized during the reign of “Old Frank” Roosevelt that Republicans were even afraid to challenge grotesque vote fraud. Most of the time they just pretended to be “above” such gutter politics, but the truth was they were scared. Had they resisted, they would have been beaten by goons, and then arrested.
Republicans desperately crave honest elections, because they know if they ever got them, they would wipe the floor with the Democrats. This is why the recent SCOTUS voter rights decision is so important.
More proof that the GOP has no spine and guts. Cruz, Gowdy, Lee, and a handful of other Republicans are worthy of being in DC representing us. The rest are a disgrace.
I hope VA gets all they wanted in him.
There are some surprising examples of this. Richard Nixon clearly had the presidential race stolen from him by blatant fraud for JFK. He could have challenged it, like Al Gore did W. Bush.
Speaking of which, this was to the credit of W. Bush that he did not just lie down and take it. That was the first time in living memory that a Republican fought back.
The “Country Club Republicans” from the Eisenhower years, who are now the RINOs, were always weaklings this way, which is another great reason that the Tea Party is eroding their power.
Hopefully, the Tea Party will take down enough of the remaining RINOs in the mid-terms to take the leadership away from them. The RINOs are really fighting their last gasp, because if they lose, even with their big money backers, they are effectively over as party leaders.
This means that in 2016, the conservatives will control the convention and nominate a real conservative for POTUS.
It was VERY close. According to some insiders despite the win the Dims are very worried.
I blame the GOP for their anti Tea Party position! Therefore, my support is only for Tea Party candidates.
That’s rich, being called a “loser” by a Republican. Oh, I’m so owned. Woe is me.
Who said I am a Republican? I’m just not a losertarian—someone who votes for certain losers no matter because they like to get high and want the Chinese to rule the world.
Unless you’re voting for dems, you’re voting for losers, loser. At least I believe in freedom. What the hell have the people you support ever done for anyone but their cronies? Nothing, that’s what.
In the Virginia situation, it was a particularly egregious waste of votes, when the losertarians ran a Soros-backed lib masquerading as a libertarian, and he managed to get 7 percent of the vote, defeating a strong conservative, Cuccinelli. That was moronic, and, as I said, people so stupid as to vote for the losertarian in that race don't deserve the franchise. They clearly have no ability to understand when they are being manipulated by NY liberals in order to give victory to corrupt socialists. I guess you are one of those people without the ability to see that. Please don't vote in anything meaningful until you have a little more education, and in fact, you may need to be careful when crossing the street.
No, you’re a conservative loser who can’t figure out that he’s being used by the GOP establishment to keep the 2-party criminal gang system sucking the American tax payer’s wallets/bank accounts dry from here to eternity.
You’re a dupe who can’t see the forest for the trees. You’re a Republican’s dream come true—a useful idiot blissfully marching in line with the rest of the brain-dead foot soldiers who can’t think of anything but how much abortion, mexicans and gays piss them off.
You certainly have NO libertarian leanings since you can’t seem to discuss any libertarian principles except one peripheral fringe topic, about which you’re a boring statist-lite who thinks that the people should only have the right to any ingest intoxicants on which the State has figured out how to turn profit.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about supposed “strong conservatives” like Cuccinelli. They’re all lying sacks of crap who don’t deliver on their weighty promises once they finally do manage to get elected. Name one conservative who has done a damn thing for “conservative voters” in the past 40 years. You can’t.
So go ahead and keep slinging your schoolground insults and see how far that gets you in life—insults you’d NEVER have the guts to utter in front of my [or anyone else’s] face, by the way. This place is teeming with supposed conservative tough guys who, if you’d believe them, would be right out there starting a revolution right now if only they hadn’t injured their backs jumping off during the invasion of Grenada.
Oh and please go ahead and keep believing in moronic conspiracies involving Soros and NY [or SF or LA or Boston] liberals. At least that’s a routine cop-out to fall back on when your shoddy candidates get their asses handed to them time after time after time. It’s a nice short-cut to critical thinking and it’s readily apparent that you need as much help in that area as you can get.
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