Posted on 09/17/2009 2:13:26 PM PDT by steve-b
What was a nine-point advantage for Bob McDonnell in the Virginia governor’s race two weeks ago is now down to two, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports released Thursday afternoon.
The poll has McDonnell’s lead at 48 percent to 46 percent for Creigh Deeds. McDonnell led two weeks ago by a 51 percent-to-42 percent margin.
The shift seems to be the result of voter reaction to the thesis that McDonnell wrote in 1989 as a 34-year-old graduate student at the conservative Regent University that laid out a blueprint for social-conservative action in the political arena that also spelled out McDonnell’s views on working women, reproductive choice and gays and lesbians.
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed told Rasmussen that the thesis is at least somewhat important in terms of how they will vote. The number of unaffiliated voters who consider the thesis to be important is 47 percent....
(Excerpt) Read more at augustafreepress.com ...
WaPo is doing it again.
C’mon, Virginians — are you seriously going to put another Democrat Governor in office, after the last two?! Warner was an economic disaster (I know, I worked for the state at the time), and Kaine is just downright useless.
Notice how Van Jones statment that he ws a communist just a few years ago shouldnt be used. But some nutty theses written 20 years ago is relevent. I hate the MSM.
Saying that the government ought to privilege marriage over other kinds of arrangements for making/raising children is just common sense. To Democrats, of course, it’s just nutty.
The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade.
Crazy. Van Jones was allowed only months (or weeks) to have changed his views, but 20 years isn’t enough for a Republican.
All too familiar, this tightening up. Any VA freepers, check your voting rolls, especially absentee. Probably lots of 2008 ACORN registrations still there.
Time Kaine has been the real disaster...I kinda liked Warner as a governor. On the other hand, Tim Kaine displayed his true ultra liberal roots and Obama ties when he temporarily stopped all executions in Virginia, including one of a convicted police killer! He also has been at the forefront of agreeing with New York;s criticism on the accessibility of Virginia firearm sales. He's a complete and utter fool that's being boosted by the national Democratic party for a higher office. At least Warner was a success in business before and has shown some conservative Blue Dog spine (along with Webb) when they both voted to extend the right to carry concealed weapons into other states (as the Constitution permits).
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For those who don’t already know, the good guys in the Virginia race (Republican slate):
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/ for Governor
http://www.billbolling.com/ for Lieutenant Governor
http://www.cuccinelli.com/ for Attorney General
What poll. I see the resident troll, Steve-b is posting BS again. No poll name. Let’s see what Rasmussen has to say.
To: My Fellow VA Voters
And send not to know for whom the steve trolls.
Did it take you all night to find the worst headline out there?
Personally, I think part of the problem is that McDonnell is spending too much time on this, instead of sticking to his issues.
All his commercials talk about the thesis, in a way that makes it sound like the thesis was a bad thing that he had to answer for.
You don’t win by being defensive.
His commercials don’t all mention the thesis. See below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xLtQeVMKo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKLPiob-aE&feature=player_embedded
I think it’s high time we act on his suggestion to sell state liquor stores to give us working capital.
All he is saying about the thesis is that Deeds keeps bringing it up because he doesn’t have any other plans or issues. And that’s a fact.
At today’s (okay, now it’s yesterday’s) debate, the audience, media included, groaned when Deeds brought up the thesis.
The latest TV ad, airing in NOVA, says nothing about the thesis:
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/index.php/blog/comments/transportation_contrast_ad
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