I know that the horse race and tendency to portray politics as a reality show is ruining the political climate of the country, but oh man, this is a fun race to watch. Gillespie digging up the dead body of Jefferson Davis and prancing him around on stage while Northam calls him a Trumpite on Fox News --
a 1m+ grassroots org denounces a moderate in the home of the nationally acceptable Moderate Neoliberal Democrat -- last four days of this are going to be fairly down.
I disagree with your end analysis, but yeah, this last week has been hell to watch. Its like both campaigns realized that they didn't want to leave any bullets left in the chamber - so they fired them all at once.
I'm (a little) joking about the Murphy result, since Guadagno doesn't have the resources to be throwing up Gillespie ads in New Jersey (this race would be Lean/Likely D even without Christie), but I really am disappointed that the Guadagno campaign isn't doing anything.
Gillespie is playing a pretty solid campaign - classic Trump/Fox 2016 playbook. Repeat, repeat, harp, motivate the base, do not for a single moment let up and make sure the terms are as brutal as can be. The Northam campaign, which exists because it needs to and not for any ideological need, is prone to falling trap to these kinds of attacks. Terrible kind of electoral politics but it's one that becomes inevitable in the changing America.
