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Virginia Senate
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 30 October 2007 | Unknown

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008polls; jimgilmore; markwarner; senate; viginia; virginiasenate
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What are we going to do to fix this? We cannot have 2 democrats in Virginia.
1 posted on 10/30/2007 10:06:56 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Welcome to the ‘NE’.....

.........sounds like beltway population spillover to me.


2 posted on 10/30/2007 10:12:40 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: Vaquero

beltway “pollution” spillover, more like it...

TC


3 posted on 10/30/2007 10:14:19 AM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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To: napscoordinator

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.


4 posted on 10/30/2007 10:14:43 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: napscoordinator

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.


5 posted on 10/30/2007 10:15:02 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: RexBeach

“...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.


6 posted on 10/30/2007 10:16:12 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: RexBeach

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.


7 posted on 10/30/2007 10:17:08 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

There is no one.

Tom Davis? Nope.

George Allen? I can hear the laughs now...and that is a shame.


8 posted on 10/30/2007 10:18:36 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: RexBeach

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.


9 posted on 10/30/2007 10:20:26 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: RexBeach

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.


10 posted on 10/30/2007 10:33:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Encourage Ted Olson to run for the senate in Virginia.


11 posted on 10/30/2007 10:36:34 AM PDT by gpapa
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Ted Olson is a great guy, but he’d get clobbered by Mark Warner.

And I think Ted just endorsed Rudy, did he not?


12 posted on 10/30/2007 11:14:35 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: napscoordinator

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.

}:-)4


13 posted on 10/30/2007 11:38:47 AM PDT by Moose4 (Ron Paul is like a beautiful plate of food ruined by a cow patty.)
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To: ourusa

ping


14 posted on 10/30/2007 11:57:55 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: Moose4

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....


15 posted on 10/30/2007 11:58:23 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (Run Fred, Run http://www.fred08.com/)
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To: Gopher Broke

Don’t worry. That research is already in GOP hands. No need to blow it into the open a year before necessary.


16 posted on 10/30/2007 12:17:49 PM PDT by ReagansRaiders ("Fearsome" Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Gopher Broke

Sounds shaky. If true, why would he run for senator any more than he’d run for president?


17 posted on 10/30/2007 12:26:46 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Moose4
... because I never could figure out anything that he actually ever DID besides raise taxes ...

Must have been closing the DMV that made him so popular.

18 posted on 10/30/2007 2:16:18 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: RexBeach

well if you can encourage General Pace to run; that would be quite a ‘matchup’.


19 posted on 10/30/2007 2:19:49 PM PDT by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: JSDude1

Draft General Pace at NRO

20 posted on 10/30/2007 2:25:26 PM PDT by HokieMom (Another "Anybody but Hillary" voter)
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