Virginia 2009 Megathread

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I feel like Terry's ace in the hole might be the minority vote

Why the hell would blacks back an uber-anti-Obama hack?

are they going to remember?

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Still waiting for someone to show me some anti-Obama statement Terry has made that can be used against him.  All he's done, that I've seen on Youtube looking around, is make delusional and constant hackish Hillary claims that she was still going to win.

Which prove that he's a fucking moron who belongs nowhere in office. Would you trust J. J. as a leader?

I doubt Terry believed anything that he said towards the end.  he's not a moron, but, quite simply, the worst person ever to have lived.

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Anyone want to take a guess as to turnout?  I'm thinking it'll be around 600,000, but it's hard to know.  2006 saw a turnout of 155,000; 2008 saw 986,000.

lol, a lot closer to the 155k than the 1m

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SurveyUSA stuff


McAuliffe 38
Deeds 22
Moran 22


McDonnell 44
Deeds 39

McDonnell 46
McAuliffe 39

McDonnell 46
Moran 34

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The polls have McDonnell getting at least 21% of the black vote against each of the candidates. Needless to say, that's not going to happen. But it brings up an interesting point, why do blacks poll for Republicans but don't end up voting for them?

subsample MoE

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as a human being, I obviously hate McAuliffe, but I also don't much want constine to strut around here jerking off for the next five months, so I'm a bit torn now that it appears as if Moran will finish third.

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I'd gladly take Deeds over McAuliffe and I'll be excited if he wins. Moran would make the best governor though, imo.

why do you care who would make the best governor?

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Deeds is pretty horrible


# Deeds supports removing the "trigger-man" clause, restricting the death penalty to those who physically committed the action, in Virginia capital punishment law.[6]
# In 2005, Deeds said that he disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling making it unconstitutional to execute juveniles. He argued that it was the jury's duty to determine when and where the death penalty should come into play.
Deeds voted to designate English as the official language of the Commonwealth[13]




and so on...

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Or about the same as all electable Democrats in Virginia history (Warner/Kaine/Webb/Wilder) -- minus the presidential election of course.  But McDonnell is no joke.

Kaine is anti-death penalty, no?

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Rasmussen:

Deeds leads !

Creigh Deeds (D): 47%
Robert McDonnell (R): 41%

Forty-two percent (42%) say Deeds, a state representative from Bath County, is also more likely to win in November, while 34% give the edge to McDonnell.

Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Virginia Democrats now favor Deeds over McDonnell while McDonnell has the support of 78% of Republicans. Among unaffiliated voters, McDonnell has a seven-point lead.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of state voters have at least a somewhat favorable view of Deeds, including 22% very favorable. Twenty-seven percent (27%) regard him unfavorably, with nine percent (9%) very unfavorable.

McDonnell is also viewed at least somewhat favorably by a majority of voters (52%), with 19% who have a very favorable opinion of him. Twenty-eight percent see the Republican unfavorably, including eight percent (8%) very unfavorable.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2009/virginia/election_2009_virginia_governor_election

Called this, still nice to see.

yeah we all need some more 14-year-olds executed

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both are garbage.  I'm not sure why I have to 'support' either of them, especially considering how irrelevant my opinion is.

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Deeds should be in line for a nice job with the American Society for Executing Twelve Year Olds.

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fwiw, Intrade now gives Corzine a small structural lead.