Posted on 11/01/2013 12:37:34 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Is Ken Cuccinelli closing in on Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race? The latest poll from Emerson College shows McAuliffe, the Democrat, with 42 percent support and Cuccinelli, the Republican, with 40 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis has 13 percent in the poll of 874 likely voters.
The two-point lead for McAuliffe is the smallest he's had in any poll since September.
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I don’t know how he is splitting the vote, being the second leftist in the race.
Doesn’t matter what Sarvis thinks...matters what those 13% supporting him think. If they are limited government libertarians, they’ll likely take Ron Pauls advice and vote Cooch. If they are just pro dopers or anti Christian types, they’ll probably stay with Sarvis....
Yes, because that’s not what many of Sarvis’ voters think....
It sure looks that way. The key to these polls is who turns out. Here in central va I can tell you I’ve seen clear momentum. I’ve not encountered one McAuliffe volunteer. They may exist but I’ve not seen them. I’ve heard that McAuliffe has written off nearly all the state ourside of NOVA and I can believe it. He will win 3 congressional districts at best and while those are vote rich districts he will be struggling to turn out voters who largely don’t like him either. Cuccinelli on the other hand has majority of voters who are casting a positive vote for him.
How is Sarvis “a third party to the right”??
He is a leftist. He doesn’t want to cut taxes, for instance.
I think so too. The serious libertarians will wake up. The young idealists probably not but then again they were most likely not going to vote or lean Democrat.
Sarvis does have a direct impact if this data is close to being accurate.
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McAuliffe’s strongest area of support are in the north within Congressional district 8 (75%-13%),
district 11 (58%-32) and district 10 (52%-37%).
Cuccinelli is winning all the other districts with his strongest support in district 7 at (49% to 27%).
Sarvis is pulling support in Cuccinelli areas of district 1 at 13%, district 2 at 16%, district 4 at 20%,
district 5 at 16%, district 6 at 18%, and district 7 at 14%.
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which is why the democrats want sarvis there as a vote splitter.
it hides the fraud.
I hate to say it, but Sarvis should drop out. Anything to keep McAwful out.
The last poll I saw showed that Cuccinelli had 68 percent support among Republicans. In a two point race, the problem here isn’t entirely with Libertarians. it’s with RINOs who will not support a conservative candidate.
In short, this is why the Republican Party is about to lose its base.
But don’t discount Dems backing Sarvis to hurt Cooch.
If the 3rd party wasn’t running, those voters would have to go somewhere. But I do see your point, RINO’s are a big problem too
What is Sarvis offering that Cooch isn’t? Whatever it is, Cuccinelli should offer it too. McCommie needs to lose at all cost.
Granted. That much is obvious from the numbers alone. But I do think it’s telling that this race seemingly can’t be won by the Republican Party alone, based on that information.
The problem we’ve faced is that McAuliffe is running ads lying claiming Cuccinelli is going to ban birth control and that he is anti woman which is just not true. Sarvis for most is a protest vote. Its nothing he is offering. He does have a few interesting ideas about Doctors and growing the number of health care professionals but mostly the guy just goes on about gay marriage. The irony in this race the only two candidates obsessing on social issues are McAuliffe and Sarvis.
“Sarvis, are you reading this? Do the right thing. Drop out!!!”
Yeah, agree. However, he won’t do it. I sometimes wonder what these libertarians use for brains.
Mark Levin railed against Sarvis for being a LINO...not being for lowering taxes, not having a plan to cut spending, not being against Obamacare, etc. Levin argued convincingly that Cuccinelli is not only more libertarian than Sarvis but might become the most libertarian governor in the country based on his positions.
I’ve been saying for years we need runoff elections, or instant runoff ballots, to prevent this 3rd party spoiling. The Dems are going to learn sooner or later that if they ask a few of their big donors to fund the libertarians as a spoiler, they can slaughter Repubs, and make us virtually extinct. This is only possible when someone is allowed to be elected without having received 50% of the vote. If there was no runoff between Cruz and Dewhurst, Dewhurst would have won with almost the same numbers as McAuliffe has now. The runoff forced Cruz and Dewhurst into a two-man race, which Cruz won handily, while Dewhurst’s numbers stayed where they were in the first round.
Introduce some form of runoff elections in most races, or the Republicans are going to be doomed to extinction even though a majority of voters would never elect that many Dems to power otherwise.
I hope that the turn out for Ken is stellar and beats that slime McAuliffe like a wooden drum
all those ‘independents’ out there better decide that Ken is a way better deal than throwing away a vote on someone which will guarantee a McAuliffe win
Fraud in Virginia is difficult we always have very good poll watchers and this election the books have been cleaned of voters who have registrations in more than one state and are deceased. Its going to be much harder this election to commit fraud.
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