Posted on 10/28/2013 4:24:05 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
There’s still time for victory in the Old Dominion.
Ken Cuccinelli is accustomed to winning political races against the odds. Now the conservative Virginia attorney general faces what might be his longest odds yet in his bid for his state’s governorship in the election eight days from now. But wise conservatives won’t count him out just yet.
First, the bad news: Both of the two most recent two polls on Cuccinelli’s campaign against Terry McAuliffe, an infamous political fixer during the Clinton presidency, show Cuccinelli trailing by seven points, and an outlying poll on October 20 had him down 17. It is a campaign where all the luck has seemed to go against the Republican attorney general: a scandal enveloping current Republican governor Bob McDonnell; a GOP nominee for lieutenant governor who has done more to hurt than help his party’s brand; and the horribly mismanaged federal-government shutdown that left Republicans politically battered nationwide and that particularly angered the hordes of federal workers who live in northern Virginia.
The worse news is that while McAuliffe proved yet again to be a prodigiously talented fundraiser, Cuccinelli has been hampered by the bizarre reluctance of conservatives and Republicans to fully fund the only highly competitive race of the year, anywhere in the country, that featured a clear-cut choice between Left and Right. All year long it has seemed that right-leaning groups have been more interested in funding internecine warfare than in actually winning general elections. McAuliffe’s $26.3 million raised through September dwarfed Cuccinelli’s total of $16.8 million raised during the same period.
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So why, then, should anybody still give Cuccinelli a chance?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
If the GOP isn’t smart enough to come up with a BLITZ of ads that expose Mcauliffe for the flim flam man he is, and can’t convince the women of Virginia that all those McAuliffe ads are full of lies (about birth control, divorce etc), Cooch loses
So far I haven’t even seen the GOP try. The helpless weak party vs sharks will lose
The problem conservatives have in elections is that we have to win beyond the margin of fraud.
McAullife’s ads are about abortion, abortion, and abortion. He apparently thinks that’s all women care about.
He must be right about that, or he’d be trailing in the polls.
The GOP never supports conservatives and sometime actively undermine them.
For example, Steve Lonegan had a chance in New Jersey but the GOP didn't give him a dime. The fey Cory Booker had 5 million from the Big Banks and lawyers while Lonegan had a paltry 200,000. Booker beat him by 140,000 votes, which is only 3% of the total registered voters in New Jersey.
Worked for obama in 2012. I hope like hell that the Cuccineli campaign can afford to fight back with TV ads this week. MaAuliffe's campaign has been incredibly sleazey, dishonest and negative. I think he's turned a lot of people off...now Ken needs to give them a reason to vote for him.
Now I have to tell them to wait and see ...
If Virginia elects Mcauliffe as their governor ... the slow decline will accelerate ... freedoms will be lost ... and the stage will be set for a Clinton win in 2016.
Past elections show that Virginia Dem’s win by turning out the urban vote in sufficient numbers to overwhelm the rural areas, which tend to vote Republican by large margins. I suspect that McCauliff leads in polls (and will win) because few rural Republicans are likely voters this time around (the federal “shutdown” fiasco discouraged conservatives through the show of weakness and lack of resolve).
In my central VA district, the only contested local election is a single seat on the school board (one candidates will draw Democrats). None of the Republicans running for State office are even putting up signs here.
Only a massive rural turnout will save this for Cuccinelli. But it turns out that you actually have to “campaign” for statewide office, and in the stinky backwash areas where your voters live. With all their outsider $$, the Dem’s have an easy task turning out their concentrated urban whordes. Chalk this one up to the despicable, unprincipled con-artist.
The Republican “establishment” in Va was for Bill Bolling. When Cuccinelli worked to move Bolling aside, many in the party were alienated. If Cuccinelli loses, it will be for this reason.
Recently Cuccinelli has aired anti-McAuliffe ads, not so much directed at independents, but those within the Republican party who may stay home if they don’t get off their butts to vote against McAuliffe.
This is the hill that Cuccinelli must climb.
I’m voting for KC, and like him better than Bill Bolling, just can’t understand the animosity some of my ‘Pubbie friends have for him.
When Va. elects a Democrat Governor speed limits go down and taxes go up. Elect a Republican then vice versa.
That’s exactly what I want to know——how much funding has the GOP supplied to Cuccinelli?
That's true for many of them. My local news showed a clip of a McAuliffe event in Blacksburg. The attendees were overwhelmingly female....also overwhelmingly fat and ugly. Some idiot college student with a moon face and a huge overbite gushed about womens' "rights."
Cuccinelli said the race is now a toss up.
(Poll I saw was that there’s only a two point difference.)
What matters NOW is to GET OUT THE VOTE! Call your friends in VA, and if you live in VA, volunteer to make phone calls.
WOW! It is so great to read a “positive” article about the Governor’s Race in VA. Thanks for the Post.
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