Virginia Governor's Race 2013 -Who's Gonna Win?

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Cucinelli is a Santorum-esque nut, and the FBI investigation into McDonnell can't end well for him.


McAuliffe is a terrible candidate whose policies are just the Democratic Party Platform.

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The Virginia GOP have given the Democrats a great line of attack. You can bet that even if Cuccinelli manages to move to the center, the Democrats will be able to lump him in with E.W. Jackson, who has said such great lines such as these:

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Plus, Mark Obenshain is the nominee for Attorney General, who is far from a perfect candidate, seeing as he drafted a bill that would force women to report miscarriages to the police or face jail time.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/20/2035411/virginia-gop-nominee-for-attorney-general-would-force-women-to-report-their-miscarriages-to-police/?mobile=nc

Even though McCauliffe is far from the perfect candidate, Aneesh Chopra is a great candidate and neither of the Dem candidates for AG look like they'll have trouble beating Obenshain. Overall, that helps McCauliffe.

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Plus, Mark Obenshain is the nominee for Attorney General, who is far from a perfect candidate, seeing as he drafted a bill that would force women to report miscarriages to the police or face jail time.

And he withdrew the bill when he realized it would do that.

I don't plan on voting for the guy, but let's be fair to him here.

I'm being as fair as the press and his opponent will be to him. That's what matters come November.

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Chopra has conceded

This and Rosalyn Dance staying alive makes me disappointed in VA Primary voters, but whatever.

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Most commentators (Including Sabato) have crowned McAuliffe the winner of today's debate, or that he exceeded expectations at the very least.

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Honestly, I continue to think it will be cuccinelli. People don't break a trend so easily...

Except they totally do.

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http://gawker.com/virginia-republican-totally-shunned-ted-cruz-last-night-1441720335

Cuccinelli had the common sense to not hang out with Ted Cruz at last night's fundraising gala, making a few short remarks that had nothing to do with Cruz, then running away before someone photographed them together.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/virginia-governor-election-cuccinelli-98089.html?hp=r5

Cuccinelli is scaling back his ad buys, meaning either A) The campaign is out of money or B) The GOP is giving up.


Either way, I'm declaring this campaign dead. TOD: 10/10/13

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Yes this is late, but Wish Virginia Democrats (not voters because they had no choice) used this opportunity to put forward a fresh progressive candidate. This was always a winnable race, for the life of me I don't understand why there wasn't options other than Terry McAullife.

Tom Perriello said no, and that's as far as the Virginia Democratic bench goes.

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Why is Terry McAuilffe considered to be so mediocre?

Because he's the definition of "Generic Democrat". He's mainly known for being unprincipled, and mainly cares only about Democrats winning elections.

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From Cuccinelli's Twitter

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The definition of loserspeak

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The Cuccinelli campaign didn't do any polling after October 18 because they couldn't afford it.