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[moderatevoter]

Not sure, but it does show it is a very good thing Warner didn't rest on his laurels and assume victory.  Could have been bad.

That's actually precisely what happened. Sure, there were ads on TV, but the ground game was virtually non-existent. Other than the intermittent ads (which, by the way, was nothing remotely close to the pummeling we received in 2012 and 2013), you'd hardly know there was an election going on this year. I think people were worn out from the 2013 Governor's race as well.

Not sure, but it does show it is a very good thing Warner didn't rest on his laurels and assume victory.  Could have been bad.

Even candidates a notch above Gillespie/Brown, and this would've been R+11. Shudder.

Disagree. If the Republicans had openly put more effort into this race, I think Warner wins by a comfortable margin. Warner got complacent, and the Dem base was essentially caught napping. If the outside groups had suddenly started dumping money into this race, then the Dems would have realized something was up.

[moderatevoter]

Not sure, but it does show it is a very good thing Warner didn't rest on his laurels and assume victory.  Could have been bad.

That's actually precisely what happened. Sure, there were ads on TV, but the ground game was virtually non-existent. Other than the intermittent ads (which, by the way, was nothing remotely close to the pummeling we received in 2012 and 2013), you'd hardly know there was an election going on this year. I think people were worn out from the 2013 Governor's race as well.

Not sure, but it does show it is a very good thing Warner didn't rest on his laurels and assume victory.  Could have been bad.

Even candidates a notch above Gillespie/Brown, and this would've been R+11. Shudder.

Disagree. If the Republicans had openly put more effort into this race, I think Warner wins by a comfortable margin. Warner got complacent, and the Dem base was essentially caught napping. If the outside groups had suddenly started dumping money into this race, then the Dems would have realized something was up.

Fair enough.  Had he put more time into the race, do you think (because of the environment) he still would have scrapped by with just a few points?

Unlike people here, I never thought Warner would win by 20. I thought he'd win by 7-8 percent.

[moderatevoter]

What can we say? We like to keep things interesting.

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