Monday, November 4, 2013

Down the Stretch: McAuliffe vs. Cucinelli

In the final day of the hard-fought Virginia governor's race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a 46 - 40 percent likely voter lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, with 8 percent for Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll completed last night and released today.

This compares to a 45 - 41 percent McAuliffe lead in an October survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Today, 5 percent of likely voters remain undecided and 5 percent of those who name a candidate say there's a good chance they will change their mind by tomorrow's Election Day.

Libertarian Robert Sarvis continues to get almost one in 10 votes, apparently taking many of the Republican and independent votes Cuccinelli needs," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institut, added. "If Sarvis' supporters stay with him in those numbers it is difficult to see where Cuccinelli can find enough votes to turn his fortunes around.

"To make a comeback in the final hours Cuccinelli will need to take virtually all the undecided; peel off a few percent from Sarvis and hope that his turnout operation is superior to that of McAuliffe. Obviously that is a longshot formula for victory. The good news for Cuccinelli is that his supporters seem more enthusiastic about their guy than are the McAuliffe backers, but there just doesn't seem to be enough of them to get Cuccinelli over the top."

10 comments:

  1. A vote for Sarvis is a protest against McAullife and Cucinelli and a rejection of the two wings of the same party.

    Better yet, don't vote, else you're lending legitimacy to a corrupt political system until the next election.

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    1. Protest votes are a waste of time. Voting for libertarians is a complete waste of time usually. Both major parties are awful but at least Cuccinelli sued over Obamacare. I would vote for him for that reason alone. Well, that and the fact that he seems relatively honest as politicians go and McAuliffe is a complete Clintonian dirt bag.

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  2. Since Obama is an admitted murderer of children, an obvious liar, and he's been spying on one and all for years, it is truly shocking that anyone would still vote Democrat regardless of how inept or statist the opponent might be.

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    1. Wake up, the spying started under W and everyone knows it. Obama is only the latest sock puppet as the next President will do it too.

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    2. Yes the spying started after 9/11 to protect us but it is well documented that Obama took it to a whole new level!

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    3. Wow, you really are a sheep if you believe that.

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  3. Republicans like to pretend libertarians are a sort of "wing" of their side in politics. Many also claim to lean libertarian.
    In that case they better learn that libertarians don't play the "lesser of two evils" game because it amounts to perpetuating the exact same crap we've seen for decades. So what if you "hold your nose" or stick a label on it that it is the "lesser of two evils"? Are you not still voting for the same type of scum bags? Are you therefor not perpetuating the legitimacy of the GOP? Are you not still giving these snake oil salesmen from the Republicans exactly what they want? What "change" are you hoping to achieve, exactly, by still bowing down for the statists? Did you think they were going to listen? Why should they, when despite everything you STILL vote for the bastards?

    Time to play hard ball. Republicans need to lose every race until they realize that their policies SERIOUSLY need to turn libertarian, not merely in rhetoric, but in action. We've seen from the NSAA, the debt ceiling debates and the government shutdown situation that the so-called "Tea Party" guys are full of hot air and just blow smoke up their constituents' asses. This isn't about Sarvis winning. He's a LINO. This is about Cuccinelli losing.

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  4. anonymous: You are the most useful fool that the statists can always count on. I predict the statist McAuliffe will win Virginia by a margin smaller than Sarvis total vote count. But he will win and we will lose. Way to go you ignorant axxhole.

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