Does the GOP have a candidate yet to run against Perriello?
He voted for cap and trade. That alone should doom him if we get a decent candidate.
To the best of my knowledge, no, they don’t, but I’m not an insider and privy to what’s going on.
Perriello strikes me as a very vulnerable candidate, having voted for the Democrats’ program in a conservative-leaning district. The problem for the GOP in 2008 was there was a big turnout by liberal University of Virginia students and by non-ideological voters for Obama. That’s what did Virgil Goode in. That’s not likely to repeat next year as Obama will not be on the ticket.
To give you some idea of the opposition, we had one heck of a turnout for the March on Washington. The organizers who put together our two tea parties in the spring and summer originally scheduled one large bus; when all was said and done, we had four busloads to Washington.
Should be an interesting November next year.