2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRasmussen: McAuliffe Jumps Out to 17-Point Lead Over Ken Cuccinelli
McAuliffe 50%-Cuccinelli 33%-Sarvis 8% By Republican-leaning Rasmussen Reports? Wow.
http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/10470/republican-rasmussen-reports-mcauliffe-50cuccinelli-33sarvis-8
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)GatorOrange
(63 posts)Keep riding Mark Levin's coattails Kookinelli! Hahahaha
VirginiaTarheel
(823 posts)I know gerrymandering is a major obstacle, but could this be a state wave election?
lowkell
(671 posts)then it's certainly possible we could pick up a bunch of seats in the House of Delegates. Remember, there are 18 districts won by Tim Kaine last November that are currently held by Republican incumbents. So...if we turn out those voters, we win.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Forty-four out of the 100 House of Delegates seats have incumbents running unopposed. The majority of those are Republican seats. Unless a miracle clean-sweep of the 56 contested seats happens, which seems exceedingly unlikely, we have to figure out how to carry this momentum into the uncontested elections.
The only way I can see that happening is through crash write-in campaigns, with money nobody has.
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=8645
Virginians need to compile lists of write-in candidates for those unopposed districts--and I don't know election law well enough to know if the Democrats are even permitted to directly help at this stage.
I really hate to say this, because it sounds so silly, but I think that it is really important that write-in candidates have simple, easy to spell, easy to remember, unambiguous but unique names. Maybe we could find a willing "John Smith" in every district and run a statewide campaign for all of them under one unified banner.
Too bad Carl Peed isn't on our side.
ffr
(22,670 posts)No complacency! Thx FSogol.
Blue Owl
(50,414 posts)n/t
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)Go, Terry!!!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)DCPSR
(35 posts)Makes sense. All the polls we have been tracking at http://www.reddit.com/r/ElectionPolls/ have showed expanding leads. The surprising thing about this poll is the fact it is Rasmussen. That in of itself is bad news the GOP. The shutdown completely caused an expanding race to lead to a rout.
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gopiscrap
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