Posted on 10/18/2009 4:45:14 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
With just over two weeks left until Virginia’s gubernatorial election, Democrat Creigh Deeds is left with a narrow path to victory, one that hinges on energizing key demographic groups and the durability of the Old Dominion’s new politics.
Even as Deeds trails Republican Bob McDonnell by eight and nine points in two of the most recent polls, his campaign and other analysts can still envision a comeback made possible in no small part because of the state’s political turn leftward.
Virginia’s Washington, D.C. suburbs, where one-third of voters reside, have gone from being a battleground region to a Democratic bulwark in recent elections, making it dangerous to write off Deeds just yet.
“The demographic shift of the state combined with what we have done as a party allows us to have air in our lungs,” said Deeds campaign manager Joe Abbey.
Deeds, a state senator, represents the first true test of just how much the tectonic plates of the commonwealth’s political culture have moved.
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McDonnell winning will be huge. A GOP sweep will be nothing short of colossal.
There was a poll breakdown the other day presented on either Fox or Lou Dobbs that indicates that McDonnell is ahead even in northern VA.
It will come down to the ground game, though. With ACORN and other corrupt rat organizations involved, it’s hard to say that Deeds can’t pull out an illegitimate win. They did it in MN’s U.S. Senate race.
I agree. It’s very likely. Unless the pubs have a good ground game and watch every ballot like a hawk, they can easily lose any election no matter if the polls show their guy ahead 65-35.
This Daggett guy in NJ is going to hand the governorship for Corzine by bleeding votes from Christie. Why does this always only happen to pubs? Are there so many seemingly conservative independents willing to do this, or were they rat stealth shills from the first day they entered politics?
What’s the story on Daggett? Sleeper agent for the rats or legitimate candidate?
Christie will lose in NJ, sad to say. Daggett’s presence assures that.
Yes, losing because of a 3rd party candidate happens primarily to Republicans, but it also happened in Florida in 2000, when Ralph Nader got 90,000 votes, so Bush was able to beat Gore.
Another thing.......winning in VA will be valuable, of course, but it will be brushed off as VA being basically a red state except for the last election, so move along folks, nothing to see here. What would be huge would be to win in NJ, but I seriously doubt that will happen. The presence of Daggett in the race assures a Corzine win. NJ has been reliably blue, so a win there would have been an earthquake, but a pub win in VA - not so much.
There simply hasn’t been any of the ACORN and La Raza visibility in No. VA that we had in 06 and 08. There seems to be a lot of apathy, if not disillusionment, among the likely Deeds supporters quite possibly because the Bammy didn’t deliver.
True (as far as we know, anyway). But it’s almost always the pubs who get hosed in 3-way races. Recently, that’s how we got “Al Franken.” That’s how we got Bubba. Twice.
Gotcha now.
So, do you know the story on this Daggett guy? Why is he in the race? Is he a stealth sleeper shill from way back, a recent recruit to the underground rat party, or another pie-in-the-sky unintentional spoiler with a dream?
Dems will pull out Jersey through hook or crook. Remember when they wheeled out old man Lautenberg in violation of their own state rules after Torrecelli had to drop out? Which goes back to your original point, if Christie took NJ it would be huge. Couldn't even begin to imagine what the Dems would do in response, but it would probably have something to do with a long night and long knives.
That’s why I have to think this Daggett guy is just a little too good to be true for the rats for his candidacy to have just happened on its own. It’s just too convenient.
Rats win again. The dumb, slow pubs couldn’t/wouldn’t play the same game. Hell no.
All that’s left is for McDonnell to choke. He will do this by uttering things that sound “Democrat socialist lite” over the next two weeks out of panic over pieces exactly like this one. I’ve seen it too many times. Make no mistake, the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms are just waiting for McDonnell’s “macaca moment”, and barring that, any hint from him of capitulation to their liberal / socialist agenda that they can use as a wedge against the conservative base.
Oh, and I’d also like to know if Daggett’s got any money and, if so, where it came from. Of course, the slow-witted pubs probably haven’t looked into this at all. If they ever do, it will be AFTER they lose - again - when nobody cares and nothing can be done about it instead of doing it NOW and exposing it BEFORE the election.
Something really stinks. But the pubs remind me of Charlie Brown (or whomever it was) trying to kick the football a thousand times and always having it pulled away, yet he falls for it every time.
Yep. The dim-witted pubs fall for the same tricks over and over and over. The rats must have a great time yukking it up, drinking and dining on the taxpayers’ dollar while they laugh their asses off at how marvelously stupid their opponents are.
Crappy economy of democraps and Obama are the reason that Deeds is losing, or at least its given McDonnell a running start.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Dee Lusional please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Dee Lusional please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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