I don’t know what the heck happened to Virginia this past 4 years... but this should not even be close and in Cuccinelli’s favor.
Something happened along the way to change the way this state voted. How the heck did Obama win this state?
He won it because he spent more money in NVA driving up Romney’s negatives. That is the strategy McAuliffe has been trying. NVA is more blue but not nearly as blue as people assume. McDonnell won nearly all of it when he took the state in 2009 with 60%. Virginia is a state you have to fight for as are most states. The GOP too often wants it easy.
Shame on Libertarians if McCauliffe gets elected, even if there’s fraud.
“I don’t know what the heck happened to Virginia this past 4 years”
The trememdous growth in the Federal workforce. I bet a lot of those now reside in Virginia and will vote for Obama.
I know little about Virginia, but I figure the fraud is massive. With that, and the vans driving around the ghetto, dragging people out of bed, giving them donuts and cigs to vote for Rats, the state has been turned.
Demographics. VA has been trending blue since 2004. NoVA has become the electoral tipping point. It is by far the fastest growing portion of the state. Immigration and domestic migration from mainly the Northeast has resulted in a liberal bastion where more than one-third of the voters live. It is also one of the wealthiest areas of the country.
Immigrants, legal and illegal, total 911,119 or 11.4 percent of the total population of Virginia up from 5% in 1990 and 8.1%in 2000. 378,626 of the 911,119 have arrived since 2000. 45% of the immigrant population are citizens. Virginia has the 9th highest number of immigrants in the country—more than states like Arizona and Nevada.
In Fairfax County, the largest county in the state with over a million people, the foreign-born population comprises 30% of the residents up from 15% in 1990. In the Fairfax County school system, which has an annual budget of $2.4 billion, there were about 31,500 ESOL students in FY-2012, an increase of nearly one-third from the previous year, requiring an additional per capita cost of $3,300 to provide ESOL services for a total of $104 million. And in FY 2011, the number of students eligible for free or reduced-price meal services was 42,204 (24.1 percent of all students). Yet, Fairfax County is among the five wealthiest counties in America.
VA is following a similar pattern that made CA a solid blue state. Demography is destiny.
Liberals and the taker minorities flooding in from the north, have infested Virginia, especially the northern part as well as Virginia Beach and Richmond.
Northern Virginia has been the fastest growing metro area in the country since Obama was inaugurated.