Posted on 10/30/2007 10:06:56 AM PDT by napscoordinator
In the 2008 race for Virginia’s open U.S. Senate seat, a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Democrat Mark Warner leading Republican Jim Gilmore 53% to 37%. Both men are former Governors of Virginia and both considered running for their party’s 2008 Presidential nomination.
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Welcome to the ‘NE’.....
.........sounds like beltway population spillover to me.
beltway “pollution” spillover, more like it...
TC
Gilmore was a pretty good governor. But Warner seemed a lot more popular.
Unless the guy does something really, really stupid, I’m afraid Mr. Warner wins easily.
The press loves the guy, and in the NoVA suburbs(which are turning bluer as I post this message) represent an enormous edge for a Democrat.
Mr. Gilmore is a good and decent man - but a dull one.
If that ends up being the race, I’m not sure we can doing anything at all to “fix” it. I’d be stunned if Gilmore were to beat Warner.
“...and in the NoVA suburbs(which are turning bluer as I post this message) represent an enormous edge for a Democrat.”
Amazingly enough, they even like Warner down here in the sticks.
Mr. Gilmore is a good and decent man - but a dull one.
We have time to dump him and get someone better. Is that possible? I don’t think hurt feelings should be a reason to keep a candidate in this important race.
There is no one.
Tom Davis? Nope.
George Allen? I can hear the laughs now...and that is a shame.
It’s amazing actually.
If you look at Virginia’s political history over the last 40 years, it was the suburbs of Northern Virginia where the state GOP really started to make inroads. The rest of the state (with the exception of the Valley) were solid Byrd Democrats.
What once transformed Virginia into a GOP state will now turn it into a competitive state again.
That is a shame. Maybe a candidate who drops out of the Presidential contest can run. I know that they would be called carpet baggers but it has been done many times over. Fred would make a great candidate for Virginia if he does not make the nomination.
Encourage Ted Olson to run for the senate in Virginia.
Ted Olson is a great guy, but he’d get clobbered by Mark Warner.
And I think Ted just endorsed Rudy, did he not?
Warner is insanely popular for some reason. I never figured out why, because I never could figure out anything that he actually ever DID besides raise taxes, with the help of Chichester and the RINOS in the state Senate.
That seat’s his to lose. And with the way the MSM is in most of Virginia, and people like the execrable Larry Sabato covering his back, he could probably get publicly caught buggering a sheep (male and underage, no less) and still win.
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I heard that Hillary dug up some Intern problems on Mark Warner...and got him to back down as a Presidential candidate....maybe we can find that research....
Don’t worry. That research is already in GOP hands. No need to blow it into the open a year before necessary.
Sounds shaky. If true, why would he run for senator any more than he’d run for president?
Must have been closing the DMV that made him so popular.
well if you can encourage General Pace to run; that would be quite a ‘matchup’.
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