Virginia 2009 Megathread

[Lunar]

idle question, how many of VA's Democratic governors (Wilder, Kaine, and Warner) have been solidly liberal on the issues?

[JohnnyLongtorso]

idle question, how many of VA's Democratic governors (Wilder, Kaine, and Warner) have been solidly liberal on the issues?

None of them. Wilder is very anti-gun, but I don't think he was a liberal firebrand. He spent most of his term preparing to run for President or for the Senate. Warner was a centrist. Kaine has vetoed death penalty expansion legislation because of personal beliefs. They've all been pretty middle-of-the-road.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Deeds' fundraising numbers are out: he raised $600k. Not bad considering he couldn't raise money for half the period.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Good numbers for Deeds.  He could fundraise for a lot of the time, and still managed to stay close to what Moran raised.  This is good.

[Rowan]

Hopefully Deeds and Moran split the Anti-McAuliffe vote, and Terry wins with 35%.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Hopefully Deeds and Moran split the Anti-McAuliffe vote, and Terry wins with 35%.

I see Terry and Moran splitting the liberal vote, and Creigh wins with 35.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Pat Edmonson dropped out of the Lt. Governor race, she's running for the House of Delegates instead. Makes it a three-way contest between Bowerbank, Signer and Wagner now.

[Holmes]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

[Lief 🗽]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

I know a lot of College Dems supporting him for some reason.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

I know a lot of College Dems supporting him for some reason.

Who I assume were hardcore Obama supporters. Did you let them know about his anti-Obama extremism and desire to perform cunnilingus on Queen Hillary?

[Lief 🗽]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

I know a lot of College Dems supporting him for some reason.

Who I assume were hardcore Obama supporters. Did you let them know about his anti-Obama extremism and desire to perform cunnilingus on Queen Hillary?

I'm sure they're fully aware of that, BRTD. These are people that read DailyKos, 538, etc. daily and intern on the Hill and volunteered on the weekend for a special election for freaking county supervisor like a month ago. Though a fair number of them did support Clinton in the primaries, at least in January and February, if I remember.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

Yup.  He and Moran will split the NOVA/youth vote 40-40-10, and Deeds will easily dominate the Southwestern vote, and win the primary with 34-36%.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

Yup.  He and Moran will split the NOVA/youth vote 40-40-10, and Deeds will easily dominate the Southwestern vote, and win the primary with 34-36%.

If Deeds does that poorly in NoVa, he's toast. Phil Puckett won 80+% of the vote in SWVA for the 2005 LG race, and still came in last.

[Lunar]

Also, Hillary isn't exactly unpopular in Southwest Virginia, eh?

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

Well, more specifically, Terry should do well with partisans, many of whom are liberal

[Rowan]

Does Virginia have open or closed primaries?

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Does Virginia have open or closed primaries?

There is no party registration in Virginia, so you can pick whichever you want.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also, Hillary isn't exactly unpopular in Southwest Virginia, eh?

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

Well, more specifically, Terry should do well with partisans, many of whom are liberal

Why would partisan Democrats flock to the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party in decades?

[Eraserhead]

Also, Hillary isn't exactly unpopular in Southwest Virginia, eh?

Terry splitting the liberal vote??

Well, more specifically, Terry should do well with partisans, many of whom are liberal

Why would partisan Democrats flock to the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party in decades?

Well, to be fair, many of them are pretty dumb.

[Lunar]

indeed, partisanship and wads of cash that overwhelm your opponent in primary off-years


well it's not a bad combination of events.

as to why they're support Terry?  You'll have to ask them that.  Most of the electorate aren't people who realized what a ridiculous persona Terry created for himself during the '08 primaries

[Lief 🗽]

Frankly, I doubt very many people care that McAuliffe was a huge Clinton hack in '08. Most Democrats like Clinton quite a bit now, and it's not as if Obama lost because Clinton stayed in until June or something. Hell, if not for Terry and the rest of them, Obama may not have won Indiana or North Carolina.

[Lunar]

As I said earlier in this thread, it's not like he ever said anything very negative about Obama, his biggest hack contribution was constantly and blatantly denying that Clinton wasn't winning...he's an insanely positive person

[Eraserhead]

He's a liar and a scoundrel.

[Lunar]

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2009/04/virginia-republicans-are-for-lesbian-lovers.html

[Rowan]

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2009/04/virginia-republicans-are-for-lesbian-lovers.html

Looks like someone forgot which account he was logged into.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

First quarter fundraising reports were due today. Here's the statewide rundown:

Governor

Creigh Deeds - $803k starting balance, $729k raised, $319k spent, $1.2m cash on hand
Terry McAuliffe - $718k starting balance, $4.2m raised, $2.5m spent, $2.4m cash on hand
Bob McDonnell - $2m starting balance, $2.2m raised, $755k spent, $3.5m cash on hand
Brian Moran - $770k starting balance, $807k raised, $753k spent, $824k cash on hand

Lt. Governor

Bill Bolling - $716k starting balance, $302k raised, $285k spent, $733k cash on hand
Jon Bowerbank - $181k starting balance, $494k raised, $244k spent, $431k cash on hand
Mike Signer - $0 starting balance, $249k raised, $73k spent, $176k cash on hand
Jody Wagner - $284k starting balance, $377k raised, $249k spent, $413k cash on hand

Attorney General

John Brownlee - $126k starting balance, $105k raised, $114k spent, $118k cash on hand
Ken Cuccinelli - $220k starting balance, $86k raised, $146k spent, $161k cash on hand
David Foster - $54k starting balance, $44k raised, $76k spent, $22k cash on hand
Steve Shannon - $746k starting balance, $273k raised, $95k spent, $923k cash on hand