Posted on 11/03/2013 8:12:18 AM PST by Qbert
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WTVR) A new poll put Democrat Terry McAuliffe seven points ahead of Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race for Virginia governor. The Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University poll has McAuliffe with a 45 38 percent lead over Cuccinelli.
The poll gives Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis 10 percent of the vote. More than two-thirds of those who said they were voting for Sarvis called their vote a protest vote against the major-party candidates.
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Sarvis is particularly shaving the Republican vote: 37 percent of his voters say they would have voted for Cuccinelli if Sarvis were not on the ballot, compared with 17 percent who would have voted for McAuliffe, Wason Center for Public Policy Director Dr. Quentin Kidd said in a statement. The Sarvis voters dont like either Cuccinelli or McAuliffe, but they look like a net loss for Cuccinelli. The fact that Sarvis continues to poll around 10 percent, coupled with the fact that his supporters are becoming as firm in their decision as the McAuliffe and Cuccinelli voters, suggests that hes not going to fade.
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The Libertarians won't crack double digits.
In the end it will hinge on turnout of the GOP voters, who cannot sit home and let the Democrat get elected.
Amen!
LOL!
Well, if he was one of Sarvis’ pals, he might have thought it was juth marvelouth.
whoa - didn’t know that
Clinton didn’t start the decline. The decline started long ago. LBJ cemented the republic’s failure with Great Society socialism.
Straight talk...love it!!
The franchise needs to be limited to tax payers and those who don’t receive welfare, food stamps, etc.
Just like felons lose their voting rights
Plenty of smart taxpaying women not on welfare
Ross Perot on Abortion;
Pro-choice activist
Perot has not only taken a pro-abortion stand, his is the first presidential candidate ever to have conceived close personal and institutional ties to the abortion industry. The Perots are activists with an interest in the most radical fringe of the pro-abortion movement.
He funded an entire gynecological wing of the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, which has provided first and second trimester abortions as well as amniocentesis research. He has also been a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood.
Margot and Katherine Perot, 2005 Award Recipients:
Ms. Perot is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Dallas, board member of the Dallas Museum of Art and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Hockaday School. She is also a former elementary school teacher.
She has been a supporter of Planned Parenthood of North Texas for more than 20 years.
Margot and Katherine Perot are being recognized for their work Chairing Planned Parenthood North Texass first annual fund drive, Secure Our Mission, which raised more than $95,000.
Here are some excerpts from a 1992 Christian Science article, enough for you to start searching if you want more info on the gun issues.
The Constitution protects citizens against warrant less searches and confiscation of firearms; it requires equal protection of the laws, regardless of race. During a crime wave in Dallas in 1986, Perot set up round-table meetings between police officers and people in the news media. In those meetings, according to Todd Mason, former Dallas bureau chief for Business Week, in his 1990 biography of the businessman: Perot espoused cordoning off minority neighborhoods and searching door-to-door for weapons and narcotics.
On NBCs Today Show on Oct. 25, 1989, Perot called for suspending constitutional rights and declaring martial law to combat the drug trade: You can declare civil war and the drug dealer is the enemy. There aint no bail ... [drug dealers] go to POW camp. You can start dealing with the problem in straight military terms.
* On people who dare to defend themselves and their families with firearms. (Perot told the National Press Club that he favors gun controls much tighter than the Brady Bill.)
"Ive been emailing Sarvis campaign, urging him to do the right thing and drop out. All I get in response are requests to volunteer and to donate."
Worth a try, but I doubt Sarvis really cares. Only somebody who truly believes in the free-market and liberty would drop out if he felt he had no chance of winning, and that he was hurting an opponent who does believe in those things. Sarvis, OTOH, is a fake and doesn't deeply support either of those ideas.
In the end, if Sarvis somehow does better than expected, I think it's going to damage the Libertarian party more than help them, ironically: the typical low-information voter is going to see the Libertarian party as the party that supports taking away people's privacy rights (and supports tax hikes) by installing black boxes in cars and taxing drivers by the mile. I doubt doing a few points better in a state race is really something worth selling your soul for...
Men who vote democrat are usually a) raised by women who vote democrat and b) have sperm donor, live-in, divorced, or henpecked fathers.
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