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

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With all the crooked politics McAuliffe pulled with the Clintons, he should be seen as bad news. He'll be Hillary Clinton's running mate most likely that is if he wins.

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With all the crooked politics McAuliffe pulled with the Clintons, he should be seen as bad news. He'll be Hillary Clinton's running mate most likely that is if he wins.

Doubt it, he's close with Bill, not Hillary. And she'd want someone relatively young and popular. Of she wanted a Virginia running-mate, she'd go with Warner or Kaine.

Indeed. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are successful politicians with appeal in Virginia. McAuliffe will probably become governor because he is the least negative option, not because the voters in Virginia love him.

I'm hoping not but with the way the state elections of Virginia seem to match the federal government, we'll probably see four years of a Democrat next followed by four years of a Republican unless Obama's approval ratings plummet between now and November.

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But remember, Virginia matches the federal government, by doing the opposite. We elected a Republican in '77 as a rejection of Carter, Democrats in '81, '85, and '89 to counter Reagan and Bush 1. In '93 Republican George Allen was seen as the canary in the coal mine of the Clinton backlash. In '97 another Republican was elected coinciding with Clinton's 2nd term. In '01 and '05, Democrats countered Bush 2. And then in '09 we had McDonnell pull an Allen and portend the anti-Obama wave in 2010. If McAuliffe wins, it'll be the first time Virginia elected a governor in agreement with the new President since the 1970s.

Excellent point. I was only looking at the president's numbers.