A blowout in VA would have repudiated the teabaggers. A close race like this means they stay alive.

[Stinky The Clown]

[Lex]

1. They still lost.

So there's that.

[Trekologer]

24. They'll think that they would have won if only the candidate was even more crazy

[spooky3]

2. Well, that's Chucky Todd's take on it. My take is that had the Dems run a better candidate

it would have been a D blowout. Coulda woulda shoulda, and all that.

[Divine Discontent]

18. good point! and even with a less vibrant DEM candidate, we still beat a tea party darling in an off

year election! woohoo! good if they're still alive as a 'tea party' because they can just keep on losing! lol



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[Blaukraut]

3. Which is good for Democrats. As long as establishment repubs and teabaggers infight, Dems win n/t

[bluestate10]

22. I agree. As long as Democrats win tonight, having close races is beneficial long term

to Democrats across the country. Teabaggers will take the close races as assurance that their views are acceptable to voters, which will prove to be toxic for the republican party candidates across the country in 2014.

BTW, President Obama need to get the health care implementation fuck up solved fast. I think the President coming to Virginia was a negative for Democrats, given circumstances his visit didn't help Democrats and fired up teabaggers. If things don't change, Democratic candidates across the country would be better off not to invite the President to speak at their rallies unless they are in deep blue states of districts. If health care implementation gets cleaned up by the end of November and people across the country see the benefits, then having the President come in September through Election Day in 2014 will be a good decision for most Democratic candidates.

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. Yep ...

That's my take on it.

As long as the tea-party is around, the House is in play for 2014.

If the VA election had been a blow out, establishment republicans could have told the tea-party to sit down and shut up. By losing by less than 10, with a libertarian candidate pulling votes away from cooch, the tea-party can/will argue the election had nothing to do with them ... it was that damned libertarian guy.

[StrayKat]

4. Is that bad?

The teabaggers seem to be holding the GOP back and working to help the left gain more traction.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Stinky, they will not go quietly into that good night.

And we were naive to think they might do so. They are passionate - jaw-droppingly awful, but passionate.

We have just begun the fight.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. I have to confess . . . . I was really hopeful that Cooch would get his ass kicked.

The fact he hung in there could, in fact, make the teabaggers even MORE passionate and MORE crazy.

[madinmaryland]

23. Might that actually help us in the long run? Anything to see the repukes put up weak candidates

that are far out of the mainstream of the country is all the better. I want to see the republican party split and see the split be VERY ugly. FUCK THEM.

[scheming daemons]

6. i want the teabaggers alive thru 2014

It will help us.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Chris Christie is a loser then.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. We'll find out next year. GOP will kill tea party.

You don't win nationally or even many statewide contests as a tea bagger.

[NightWatcher]

9. they don't get to claim Moral Victory on this one

This was their referendum on Obamacare.

They lost, we won

[JaneyVee]

10. Good. They can keep losing.

[baldguy]

11. "Cuccinelli was too liberal."

Right. You go with that, teabaggers.

[hrmjustin]

12. Teabaggers like roaches will always be here to annoy us.

[busterbrown]

13. let the Poison continue... The more insanity the more this will spread...

[ChiciB1]

14. I'm Going To Try To Stay Positive...

IT'S A START IN THE "CORRECT" DIRECTION! Not gonna say "right" fer nuttin'!

[CatWoman]

16. I can't see how you can say that considering all the underhanded shit Cuchinelli pulled

i.e., throwing THOUSANDS off the voter rolls.

Yet Terry Mac still kicked his ass

[malaise]

17. 1,000

A win is a win

[onenote]

32. "kicked his ass"?

Too much celebratory bubbly?
I worked for Terry M and supported him with my checkbook. But the fact is that he didn't kick anyone's ass. He is going to end up with less than 48 percent of the vote and a victory margin of less than 2 percent. Compare that to McDonnell's 17 percent win over Creigh Deeds or Tim Kaine's 5 plus percent win over Kilgore. Compare it to Northam's Lt. Gov. 10 percent win over certifiably nutjob Jackson for Lt. Gov. Or Christie's 20 plus point win over Buono in NJ.

We survived. And I'll take it. But I refuse to pretend that this some bellweather moment. We have to do better.

[kydo]

19. don't forget the cooch tried to slant the race his way by dumping voters from the rolls

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. They'll run someone even more conservative next time.

[Erose999]

21. T-baggers and the far right are what cost them. Exit polls showed moderates favored T-Mac and

independents favored T-mac or the libertarian candidate. And the libertarian got 11 and 12% of the vote in some of the light red counties.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. So the infighting in their party gets worse.

This is a good thing.

[lostincalifornia]

26. The biggest problem will be the media making it seem like the tea bagger won

[iloveObama12]

27. A Win Is A Win

[Agschmid]

28. In some ways this was a blowout...

Yes not by the measured % of vote received... but historical precedent says the Reps should have won that race handily... and they did not.

[truebluegreen]

29. The upside of that means they will just get crazier...

which will continue to hurt them...IF the effin' Democrats show up.

[Coyotl]

30. A very respectable margin of victory ............. and the Obamacare referendum FAILS.

[onenote]

33. That's spin.

Maybe spin is what we need to do, but a win of less than 2 points is not "very respectable" particularly when the repub nominee was as bad as Cooch.

And when you win with less than 48 percent of the vote, I'm not sure you can claim to have won a referendum on anything much.

Sorry to seem like Debbie Downer, but I've lived in Virginia my entire life and we got very very lucky today.