From the article:.....Based on the crosstabs of a CNN exit poll, it appears that statewide, Sarvis voters leaned toward McAuliffe as their second choice.
If this is true it means without Sarvis McAwful would have won by a larger margin.
I am hearing all sorts of mixed results based on who Sarvis voters would have voted for and whether or not he was trying to sabotage Cucinelli or not.
I mean, look, Cucinelli was a candidate closely associated with the Tea Party and with Rick Santorum type social conservatives and was running in a state that is increasingly swamped with DC and Maryland transplants; parts of Northern Virginia have basically become carbon copies of the Maryland/DC area. And the GOP happily hung him out to dry, Christie, that Republican that Bill Maher can get behind, refused to aid in Cucinelli’s campaign because of how much he wanted to focus on his own campaign, never mind that his own NJ election was basically a done deal. All factored in, Cucinelli faced a hell of an uphill battle to start with.
While I think there should be a lot of criticism at those Libertarians who helped McAwful get elected because of differences with Cucinelli over some social issues, the time for letting accusations fly between Libertarians and actual, legit Republicans has to end either way. Republicans need to work on galvanizing their conservative base more and articulating their message to Independents, Lord knows they struggle real hard in the latter territory. And Libertarians should make getting votes away from Democrats a priority as well. As I said above, one of the good things about Gary Johnson, given that there were numerous problems with him, was that he was able to tailor his Libertarian platform in order to get votes away from Dims and not just Republicans.