Congratulations! You called it perfectly. Best thing we can hope for now is that Critz is put on the spot having to vote for amnesty or cap and tax, then go face the voters again with that on his record.
The military service was also a factor, as you pointed out and that’s what helped McCain.
What I don’t quite get is how far the polls were off in this election, at times giving Burns a 6 or more point lead. Were they oversampling Republicans?
Undersampled Disney characters and the dead.
One other factor is that this guy ran as a conservative, very conservative. My own sister was buying into a Dem preaching conservative values in VA. I guess it's hard for everyone to be as cynical as you need to be with these frauds.
Yes, while also undersampling dems. Every poll that showed Burns leading was doing it, except one by Norm Coleman's PAC(IIRC), that used pushpoll questions to drive votes to Burns.