I did find a couple of him with Obama though...
Maybe those old women in the 9th would like to see these.
Posted on 07/30/2010 10:58:05 AM PDT by mrsmith
VA-09: Women Propel Democrat Boucher to 15th Term in Congress: In an election for US House of Representatives in Virginia's 9th Congressional District today, 07/21/10, incumbent Democrat Rick Boucher defeats Republican State House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith 52% to 39%, according to this latest exclusive WDBJ-TV poll conducted by SurveyUSA. Among men, the contest is tied; among women, Boucher leads by 25 points. 1 in 4 Republicans cross over to vote for the Democrat. Independents split. Those with favorable opinions of the Tea Party movement back Griffith 3:1; those with unfavorable opinions of the Tea Party back Boucher 14:1.
http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/7259/va09-boucher-leads-griffith-by-13
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/07/poll_gives_rep_boucher_13-poin.html
Is this district rotten with federal drones?
Not my district, but a disappointed ping nonetheless.
The Ninth in Virginia is the far southwestern portion of the state...mountainous, rural and conservative, but also traditionally Democratic, with a heavy union presence thanks to all the coal mines, and also a couple of good-sized universities (Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and Radford University in Radford) on top of that. Boucher’s been down there forever, is fairly socially conservative for a Rat, and has brought a lot of pork home to the area. He’s about as entrenched as an incumbent can get.
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Thank you. That explains it.
Proverbs 27:22
The GOP had a chance to get rid of him this time around but blew it at the GOP Convetion (no primary) on May 22 when it selected party hack and professional politician Morgan Griffith over several very promising Tea Party grassroots candidates. Griffith doesn't even live in the district and has no connection with the coal industry, and is DOA.
That explains even more.
I don’t think the GOP will survive the 21st century.
Outmoded, unreliable and redundant.
Maybe those old women in the 9th would like to see these.
Don’t believe everything you see or hear on TV. I am in Boucher’s 9th distric, and whats being brofadcast just isn’t so.
The problem is that Blacksburg is the home of Virginia Tech which has 20,000 students and Radford with another 8,000...that is where he gets his votes.
I’m in the Ninth too. Boucher’s entrenched and Gtiffith’s imperfect but I think we have a good shot. People are fed up with the Dems.
No, that's not necessarily true. Boucher is a very good, very glib retail politician who spends a great deal of time out and about in his district whenver he's not in Washington. He knows his constituents well and knows exactly what to tell them to keep their loyalty. Like Robert Byrd, he's also a big pork-meister, and has brought hundreds of millions of $$$$$ worth of federal aid into SWVA.
He's also got this little project going on under the radar:
Grundy, Virginia and the $200 Million Bridge to Nowhere
SWVA's residents are mostly Conservative religious folk, but they are also New Deal-style Democrats who have yet to realize that their party has been hijacked by Communists and Socialists.
My father is one of these, and has just come to the realization this past year that he got snookered when he voted for Obama. Now, he denies he ever cast that vote (despite him telling me so the day after the 2008 election).
And that's how Boucher protrays himself---as a modern New Deal Democrat and a friend of coal (despite helping write the House Cap & Tax bill, which got him into some trouble last year).
Grundy! I drove through there once on US 460 years ago with friends from VT, on our way to hang out at Breaks Interstate Park. Beautiful country, but a strange town. Three miles long and a hundred yards wide thanks to that river and those mountains!
I understand doing work on flood control given the geography there, but the rest of it looks like nothing but pure USDA choice pork.
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The big open space on the left of the Levisa River in that picture used to be a mountain that was literally moved. The promised Super Walmart has yet to materialize, even though contracts have supposedly been signed and money pocketed.
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