[Verginius Rufus]

How many Virginians blame McDonnell rather than the Santorum campaign and the Gingrich campaign for failing to get their candidates on the ballot? It may be that Romney would have placed second or third if Santorum and Gingrich had been on the ballot--but it's likely that Romney would have still emerged as the nominee.

My guess is that if McDonnell had chosen to run for President he would have carried Virginia in the primary. So conservative Republicans are supposed to be so angry over not having a chance to vote for Gingrich or Santorum in the spring that they would help Obama get four more years even with a governor they like as the VP nominee? Maybe some will but I doubt it will be 100,000.

Goode's main hope of making an impact is if the Obama campaign funnels money to his campaign.

[muawiyah]

We've gone over that numerous times. The cold hard facts are ROMNEY did not validate his nominating petitions either. He simply claimed a number more than set by Bolling and that was the end of that.

Bolling also changed the cut off just a couple of days before the turn-in date.

BTW, none of you guys can prove Romney actually qualified either!

Without the Mittbot nonsense we'd had a regular primary with a lot of candidates, and they would have each gotten more votes than Romney. No one can forget Mitt's pitiful 18,000 votes in the 2008 primary ~ the dude is simply remarkably unpopular in Virginia.

Picking McDonnell will undoubtedly give Democrat crossover voters pause ~ but fur shur it will drive off real Conservative voters.

[wolfman23601]

Good is very popular in the Richmond and Charlottesville areas, where he provided congressional representation for 20+ years and is polling around 10% statewide, a gap Romney has to make up. McDonnell has ruined himself in Hampton Roads (see above example), which is the state’s 2nd largest metro area besides Washington, which will go for Obama. Romney will not carry Virginia if he picks McDonnell because he will need to carry Hampton Roads by a wide margin to make up for Goode being in the race.