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Does McAuliffe's narrow victory mean Virginians are anti-gun?
Small Government Times ^ | 2013-11-07 | Steve Adcock

Posted on 11/07/2013 7:04:29 AM PST by sdnet

Anti-gunners across the nation are reveling in the victory of Terry McAuliffe in the hotly-contested Virginia Governor’s race with claims that McAuliffe’s “F” rating by the National Rifle Association indicates the American people are rejecting the so-called gun agenda.

But in reality, the McAuliffe victory proves once again the powerful roll that money plays in political elections in our fair nation. McAuliffe was expected to easily win the election, but ended up barely squeaking out a victory on election night despite dramatically outspending his opponent.

In the days leading up to the Virginia election, McAuliffe outspent Republican challenger Ken Cuccinelli $705 to $285k. The Governor-elect also enjoyed support from Michael Bloomberg’s well-funded anti-gun group to the tune of $346,000. Further, a rich Texas Democrat funded a professional signature-collection effort to get Libertarian Robert Sarvis on the ballot in the hopes of taking away votes that would otherwise have been placed for the Republican.

(Excerpt) Read more at smallgovtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; cuccinelli; guncontrol; guns; gunvote; mcauliffe; va2013
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To: fwdude
Any state which doesn’t verify the identity of the voters at the polls is ripe for rampant fraud by the Demonicrats.

Are you familiar with how that verification is done here in VA?

61 posted on 11/08/2013 9:19:27 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ScottinVA
Are you familiar with how that verification is done here in VA?

No, but I do know that voter I.D. isn't yet in effect, but has been enacted to PREVENT voter fraud.

62 posted on 11/08/2013 9:24:39 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
No, but I do know that voter I.D. isn't yet in effect, but has been enacted to PREVENT voter fraud.

Well... I am. And verification of name and address are done on the spot. If one of the two can NOT be verified, the ballot is held as a provisional and it's then up to the voter to return with proper ID for their vote to be counted.

Now.. are you familiar with how VA processes paper ballots? Because I'm going to dispel the notions there are "boxes of ballots" laying around waiting to be counted.

63 posted on 11/08/2013 9:37:09 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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Disregard everything I said.. just heard a report on ABC News several thousand ballots “lost” due to a clerical error have just been found in..... get ready for it..... Fairfax County. Fecking amazing.....


64 posted on 11/08/2013 2:08:12 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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