Posted on 09/15/2013 3:19:10 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Some senior staff members working to get Ken Cuccinelli elected governor have had their roles redefined in a move that insiders say was made to reinvigorate the Republican's campaign.
The announcement at a Monday meeting in the campaign's Springfield headquarters came as Cuccinelli tries to reframe his race with Democrat Terry McAuliffe. It was also made as anxious supporters and donors take note of recent polls showing Cuccinelli trailing.
Staff members were shown an organizational chart clarifying the duties of campaign manager Dave Rexrode, senior adviser Chris LaCivita and deputy campaign manager Meredith Wall in the run-up to the Nov. 5 election, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
Not sure what happened to Cuccinelli here in Virginia. He use to be very popular but he has been way too quiet lately. Almost like he had been gagged.
Well, we didn’t stay home, and not all Virginians are simpletons. We’re in the central part of the state-—rural farm country-—which is solidly red. On election day, our polling place was crammed full of people excited to throw Obama out. But the beltway crowd in northern VA, the blacks in Hampton Roads, and the northern transplants all over the state were enough ruin things.
Romney’s campaign manager/Drudge BFF Matt Rhoades is doing opposition research for Cuccinelli. Another FAIL by Rhoades.
The GOP may already be finished here. There are too many liberal northerners flooding the state, bringing their leftwing virus with them. How can you fight that when the candidate himself doesn’t seem to want to fight?
The possibility that Terry McAuliffe could be the successor to Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.....what a nightmare.
Northern Virginia is populated mostly by government employees or contractor transplants (mostly from the northeast) who have no real cultural or political connection with the rest of the Commonwealth. But because there are so many of them, they more than balance out the geographically larger red areas and dominate state-wide elections.
I don’t think I said that all Virginians are simpletons. If I implied that, I apologize. I guess Virginia is just not going to go red in national elections again?
The GOP has a 2 to 1 majority in the House of Delegates. Statewide, though, VA is decidedly purple due to Northern VA scum.
No, you didn’t say it. No need at all to apologize. I was referring to Lancey Howard’s post, and I replied to you because you had responded to him. Lancey didn’t call us all simple, either. Sorry for the misunderstanding. :)
Hope springs eternal, but I don’t like the way the trend is headed. If McAuliffe wins, it will take a lot for us to go back.
The price of gasoline, stopping the war on coal and oil and hydro and winning the war on terror by developing hydrocarbon resources here, including offshore Virginia. Dealing with all of these aggressively against a weak candidate weighed down in corrupt "green economy" boondoggles would seem to be the ticket I can help but we have not been active for a while and are in fact now election workers, But I personally have published enough on these things and am involved in going green with gasoline now. His staff is asleep at the wheel. Energy development equals jobs, duh!
You’re exactly right. The election result maps showed a red state with blue sections in the north and on the eastern coast, yet they were enough to dominate and win.
Thank you. No I didn't mean to call ALL Virginians simpletons any more than I would call all Pennsylvanians (like myself!) simpletons because Pennsylvania voted for the African communist p.o.s. Sorry if it sounded that way.
FRegards,
LH
Does no one actually stop to think anymore, or has it come to the point that people just accept whatever they see in campaign attack ads? (rhetorical question).
It’s is nauseating to see the home of Thomas Jefferson on the verge of electing scum like McAuliffe. Considering the state has gone for Obama twice, and has two liberal Senators, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, but McAuliffe is such a slime that it still stuns.
Thanks to liberals moving in from other states, and a growing immigrant presence, Virginia seems on the verge of being lost. It’s sad but probably true that statewide Virginia is probably closer to being a blue state than a purple one. Demographics is destiny.
I know you didn’t mean it that way. I was a bit too defensive and I jumped too quickly....my apologies.
God bless
It’s like when the Massholes turned off the turnpike into New Hampshire! These people are cancer
The VA voting direction is not hard to understand: liberals in Northeast VA and blacks all over VA outnumber the numerous, but not numerous enough, conservatives throughout the state. And it matters little that the Democrap candidate is inferior, as 2012 proved.
His campaign lacks money.Lack of money has created a reverse band wagon effect. Lack of enough money attracts even less money. In the mean time carpetbagger McAuliffe has saturated TV with extremely negative ads featuring a picture of Cuccinelli as a demon.
To me, the only issue is whether Cuccinelli is running as a conservative or not running as a conservative. If he’s running a poll-based instead of a principle-based race, then he’s toast. If he’s trying to nuance his campaign, then he’s hurting himself.
He needs massive victory in rural Virginia to offset the north. He’s not going to get it soft-selling anything.
He might as well go for broke.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.