Bolling might not be out of the running yet; some articles I’ve read suggests Bolling might run as an independent. One of his advisors hasn’t shut the door on that possibility.
VA’s shift has definitely troubled me, and the fact that Obama was able to win it a second time was a shocker. There’s the shift in NOVA, but I’ve noticed Republican candidates in recent years tend to run behind in other metro areas when they lose, like the Richmond suburbs, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake. Even when Romney was running ahead of McCain in rural, small-town counties, I noticed when the results from Chesterfield County (suburban Richmond) came in, Romney wasn’t up from where McCain was four years ago. That told me Romney was likely to lose. Suburban VA as a whole seems more swingy than it used to be.
If Bolling were to pull a stunt like that, it would truly be the end of his political career. He might as well become a Democrat now.
As for Steve Merrill, I can’t see luring him out of political retirement. He’ll be 68 in 2014 and wouldn’t have run a race in 20 years.
If Bolling runs as an independent he should be castrated and exiled to the moon.
That traitorous move would ensure democrat victory just like when that RINO scumbag with support from the RINO Mr. Liz Taylor cost Olly North in the 1994 Senate race.
There are large swatches out there where just about everybody votes like the Confederacy is coming back tomorrow, and Republicans have never had much luck there EXCEPT when they can keep those folks from voting.
This latest election had a bad actor at the top of the list ~ who was embroiled in a corrupt practice when it came to how the primary was handled. Maybe his handlers didn't think he was but we all thought he was ~