Virginia 2009 Megathread

[Joe Republic]

Why is McAuliffe supposedly so popular with blacks?

[Frodo]

I guess it is safe to say that about 200,000 turned out to vote today... 

And that's not counting absentees. 

[Lunar]

Why is McAuliffe supposedly so popular with blacks?

He had Clinton stumping and recording ads for him. 

Plus the black areas are sort of out of the home territory for his two opponents, so I think he may have been overpolling them based on name recognition

[Frodo]

Has either Brian Moran or Terry McAuliffe conceded yet?

[Lunar]

Has either Brian Moran or Terry McAuliffe conceded yet?

Moran just conceded

[Saxwsylvania]

So Mcaulliffe won?

Haha
+1 for us

. . . No.

[Lunar]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/06/video_deeds_declares_victory_a.html

Two concession speeches and a victory speech, what what

[BM]

I liked watching Terry's.

Deeds's voice and demeanor irritate me for some reason.

[Eraserhead]

Wow, Terry did horrible. Watching this guy lose stuff is becoming one of my favorite pastimes. Congrats to PPP and SUSA for basically capturing the last minute Deeds mega-surge.

[Lief 🗽]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/06/video_deeds_declares_victory_a.html

Two concession speeches and a victory speech, what what

Deeds sounds genuinely surprised to have won more than 15% of the vote.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

With the filing deadline having passed yesterday, it appears as if there will be no third-party candidates on the ballot for any of the three statewide offices.

[Saxwsylvania]

Wow.  Terry McAuliffe takes his experience from Hillary Clinton's failed campaign and apparently learns no lessons from it, losing in almost exactly the same way.  Unbelievable.

[Brittain33]

Wow.  Terry McAuliffe takes his experience from Hillary Clinton's failed campaign and apparently learns no lessons from it, losing in almost exactly the same way.  Unbelievable.

How was this the same as Hillary's loss?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

On to victory with Deeds! 

[Saxwsylvania]

Wow.  Terry McAuliffe takes his experience from Hillary Clinton's failed campaign and apparently learns no lessons from it, losing in almost exactly the same way.  Unbelievable.

How was this the same as Hillary's loss?

Overconfidence, 'inevitability', etc.

[Lunar]

You know what's funny and maybe has been noted before in this thread?

Terry did the worst among the people who actually voted for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Here's an interesting article on what may have done it for Deeds: http://www.clickz.com/3634043

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Here's an interesting article on what may have done it for Deeds: http://www.clickz.com/3634043

Interesting.  I probably got 10 facebook messages from Deeds groups on Tuesday alone.  Hopefully this carries over into the GE.

[© tweed]

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...

[Lunar]

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.

[© tweed]

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?

[Lunar]

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?

He wouldn't be if he weren't some type of Catholic missionary weirdo ()


Also, did Kaine refuse to let anyone be execute during his tenure or was he simply symbolically opposed to it (honest question)?

[Frodo]

Also, did Kaine refuse to let anyone be execute during his tenure or was he simply symbolically opposed to it (honest question)?

I think we had a few executions during his tenure in office, so his opposition was largely symbolic though I have no doubt his personal view toward the death penalty is as heartfelt as Governor O'Malley's. 

[minionofmidas]

Also, did Kaine refuse to let anyone be execute during his tenure or was he simply symbolically opposed to it (honest question)?

I think we had a few executions during his tenure in office, so his opposition was largely symbolic though I have no doubt his personal view toward the death penalty was as heartfelt as Governor O'Malley's. 

9 of them.

[Tender Branson]

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