VA-GOV 2017: Utter Panic and Doom (General election: Nov 7th)

[BuckeyeNut]

Northam attended the Women's March today.

[BuckeyeNut]

Northam attended the Women's March today.

As did Perriello.

I saw someone collecting signatures for Perriello at the Women's March.

Hopefully their petitions don't get thrown out for collecting non-VA sigs.

[BuckeyeNut]

Team Northam feeling the heat.

Yeah, after reading this I'm definitely behind Northam. Perriello seems like Tulsi Gabbard 2.0.

... No.

[BuckeyeNut]

Perriello should run for Warner's seat if he retires (hopefully) in 2020.

Warner'll only be 65 in 2020. He's not going anywhere unless he gives up the seat to run for POTUS.

[BuckeyeNut]

Really disappointed in but thoroughly unsurprised by Virginia tonight.

[BuckeyeNut]

I totally believe they're tied, as the new Monmouth poll showed. Like Sanders, Perriello was shown to beat the GE opponent at a healthier margin, and Northam could well botch it.

[BuckeyeNut]

I would be careful saying Trump's bounce from a -25% approval to -20% is due to his response when it was probably regression to the norm after his health care slump.

I would also say thinking some Republican who already lost statewide once could win in a state Trump lost and has a -20% or lower approval rating is delusion.

I definitely agree that Gillespie must wage an uphill battle if he wants to be Governor, and that Northam will be the likely victor of this race barring a major development in Gillespie's favor. I would caution, however, that earlier posters have concluded that Gillespie looks and sounds a lot better than Northam in a debate.

He has, however, not been hurt by the events of the past week if the statistics are to be believed.

Regarding your first point, you are probably right.

Debates don't really matter; 2016 taught us that.

It didn't, really. But, regardless, no one cares about gubernatorial debates.