Virginia blame game begins
National Republicans agree on this much about the 2013 campaign in Virginia: It wasn’t supposed to go like this.
Well before the last votes are cast in the state’s off-year governor’s race, GOP leaders are already engaged in a spirited debate over why, exactly, a fight against a Democrat as flawed as Terry McAuliffe has turned into such a painful slog of a campaign. Even Republicans who haven’t yet counted out their nominee, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, view the governor’s race as a profile in frustration for the GOP – an election that should have leaned toward the Republicans, but where Democrats have held a persistent lead in polling, money and tactical prowess.
The GOP’s internal discussion about the race mirrors much of the broader national tug of war within the conservative coalition, between officials and strategists who want the party to trim back some of its most confrontational tactics and hard-edged rhetoric, and activists bent on drawing the starkest possible lines of contrast with the Democratic party of President Barack Obama.
The clearest battle lines will emerge after Tuesday; but the Washington community has groused for months about Cuccinelli’s history of incendiary, ultra-ideological stances, while rank-and-file activists have watched with horror as well-tailored GOP donors have defected to McAuliffe. Everyone in the party – establishment and tea party alike – has fumed over the ongoing ethics controversies that have rocked outgoing Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration and undercut Cuccinelli’s anticipated advantage over McAuliffe on personal integrity.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/virginia-gubernatorial-election-2013-republican-ken-cuccinelli-99249.html#ixzz2jWAUEZC6
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I'm not knocking you RandySF for posting this -- I am just very concerned in the last few days of this race that stories like this will make voters complacent.
We have more than Cuccinelli to be concerned about. They have a lunatic running for Lieutenant Governor and a guy running for Attorney General that makes cooch look sane.
Women are in large part a reason why McAuliffe has leads in many polls. We need to get women to vote on Tuesday.
We still need to GOTV. I'm going to be taking people to the polls in my area on Tuesday.
GOTV!
This is a big deal here in our commonwealth! 
We had a member of the Democratic Party come to our house to to ask again if we were voting on Tuesday.
I told her, and I quote myself: "Not just yes, but HELL YES!"
