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"if the whole plan is for conservatives to ditch the GOPe to beat Dems then does it make sense to blame lost elections like this on lack of help from them? If we dont need them then how can we blame losses on them for not helping enough?"

The real issue, I think, is different though. It appears that the RNC made a decision early on that the VA Gov race was a lost cause to some reason, and decided to allocate even more funds to the NJ race (which, like the NY mayorial race, was basically a no-brainer). That's just bad politics- you allocate resources to where candidates who are behind can use them.

And I will ask for the umpteenth time (not to you personally, but in general)- we learned after the 2012 presidential race that the Romney internal pollsters had no idea what they were doing. With the VA race this close in the end... Who the h-ll is doing such a poor job of internal polling for the GOP??!!!

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RE :”The real issue, I think, is different though. It appears that the RNC made a decision early on that the VA Gov race was a lost cause to some reason, and decided to allocate even more funds to the NJ race (which, like the NY mayorial race, was basically a no-brainer).”

Now that I believe, plus any biases they have are to be expected.

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RE:..” we learned after the 2012 presidential race that the Romney internal pollsters had no idea what they were doing”

Their biggest mistake on that was estimating who will come out to vote, and having an effective get out the vote in swing states.

Recall Rush was saying all the (nearly) external polls were wrong, that Romney would win big inspite of polls.