Posted on 11/13/2013 5:52:03 AM PST by 1010RD
I think a lot of republicans were really mad that the VA GOP gave them a choice between Romney and Ron Paul in the presidential primary. I recall many folks saying that was the last straw for them.
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The rats poured 20 million into terry’s coronation... voter intimidation, voter fraud, stealing votes, buying votes and a republican party aligned with terry and the rats... and their absolute abandonment of Cuch... this is what cost Cuch a Victory.
These “wealthy” Virginians for McAwful are the U.S. government employees surrounding D.C.
The govt. shutdown did affect NoVa, and Kooch.
Third party probably didn't help, but I did hear mixed results. Knowing now that the fake libertarian was bought and paid by liberals tells me his intention (if not result) was to hurt Kucinelli.
My take hasn’t changed. The GOPe made little effort to GOTV of their country club GOPer set. That’s why KC lost. KC wasn’t their guy and they didn’t have much desire to carrying him over the finish line.
What I find interesting is that the VA gov race was much more important to the Dems than the GOP. That’s why they won.
The GOP basically admits they’d rather have a Democrat win than a Tea Partier.
OK, so the voters demography turn out seemed to favor Republicans.
Yet the article barely mentioned if the votes Cuccinelli supposedly lost went to the libertarian candidate. Is there a demography break-down of what the 3rd candidate attracted?
Black thugs outside white polling places? Seriously?
Another thing I should point out. This article relied heavily (if not solely) on the exit poll numbers.
Even if (bold) we assume the exit poll numbers are correct, this does not account for the ‘unseen’ votes Democrats almost always get.
To base your next campaign strategy on the faulty analysis is risky.
As far as I could discern, Cucinelli lost because he was so busy appealing to the base that he failed to sell his ideas to the center. The ads I saw were terrible. Frankly, I put this loss at the feet of the DC consulting class, which is RINO to the core, IOW, it was a classic RINO backstabbing, as they did to any number of TEA Party candidates. The GOPe will not suffer challenge, because their status is more important to them than are the ideas the Party supposedly exists to advance.
Even if (bold) we assume the exit poll numbers are correct, this does not account for the ‘unseen’ votes Democrats almost always get.
I don’t think you have to fall back on anything nefarious here.
The bottom line is the Dems made this race a priority and the RNC/RGA did not. In a close race that is enough to win. The Dems did what they frequently do. Pull a lousy candidate over the finish line and into the winners circle. Until the GOP has a similar mindset they will continue to lose many winnable contests.
I’ve read the GOP was very very stingy on the funds for him.
yes... third party = Dem win
The GOP was the reason, they did nothing to counter the former clintoon goon...
Yea... I read the same kind of crap when Perot gave Clinton the win over Bush Sr. I don’t believe it for a second.
For those of us in Virginia, any pretense that the GOP would play ball with Conservatives has been wiped away. It WAS that bad. It will only get worse..
I agree with your first two sentences, but fail to see how they mesh with the rest of what you wrote. Virginia is still a center-right state, as it has been for 25 years, but any Republican must pick up most of the independents and moderates in the center to win a state-wide election.
Fortunately, the Virginia legislature is still mostly conservative and will be able to limit the damage that McAuliffe can do in four years.
While there were many factors that came into play, fundamentally Ken lost because of Ken.
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