Democrat Terry McAuliffe projected to win Va. governor's race

[brooklynite]

Source: Fox News

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is projected to win the Virginia gubernatorial race, defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli in a surprisingly close victory.

Fox News projected McAuliffe as the winner Tuesday night.

The closely watched raced pitted a Tea Party-backed Republican and an establishment Democrat locked in an expensive, ideological battle whose outcome is expected to set a course for the 2014 and 2016 elections -- in large part forcing the GOP to consider whether a strong conservative candidate is the party’s best pick to win a national election.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/05/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-projected-to-win-va-governor-race-in-surprisingly/

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Anyone else love the irony that Fox News called it first?

[peacebird]

1. Been watching the results, as Cooch slipped to even with McC and hoping it continues...

[wyldwolf]

2. FOX has surprised a few times lately

[brooklynite]

3. You know it's true...

...they've stopped talking about the Election and are talking about Obamacare....

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Woohoo! Congrats VA!

Though the Cooch got a little too close for comfort. I think all the bad press ACA is getting repaired all the damage the Baggers did to the Repugs.

[Heather MC]

10. Close but no Cigar!!!

Yes my Beloved state can come out of the Dark Ages!!!!

[dlwickham]

5. I've been following it on Politico

I was worried that Cooch was going to pull it out

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

35. Following it on Politico was your problem, my friend. Politico is almost just as bad as Faux News...

About Virginia, the rural counties are called first because they are the least populous. Northern VA (NoVa) is really the D.C. suburbs and heavily Democratic. They are last to vote, last to close the polls, and very, very slow at counting. They'll probably be counting all night. We won't get the final tally probably until the morning sometime. I would be shocked--even though it's an off-year election--to see a final tally soon, and it's shortly after midnight. I could be wrong, but I'd be shocked if I am.

[Snake Plissken]

6. Thank You Jesus

Seriously, if Cuccunelli won I think I would have lost all hope in humanity.

[Heather MC]

11. I would have Moved!!! Maryland is just over the River

I have been considering buying a boat and Docking it in MD.
If the Coochie and Ewww Jackson had won, I have would have evacuated to a state with intelligent leadership!!

[PragmaticLiberal]

22. Come on over Heather. Maryland would welcome you with open arms.

[Heather MC]

26. Awww

Welp My Cousin who lives in Southern VA Just thanked Northern VA for carrying Terry to Victory.

I think I need to stick around alittle longer to help protect Southern VA from itself.

But I do have the Marina Picked out just incase

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

36. Hey, Heather MC!! We'd love to have you in our nice BLUEST of BLUE state where Obamacare is

working just fine! And our Governor and Lt. Governor are, too!!

Come on over!

[Heather MC]

41. Aww Feeling the Love. I am there every Sunday when Six Flags is Open!

Thanks for the invite. I do like feeling like My Vote made a difference. MSNBC Says NoVA Helped Terry Win the Day.

I may still be needed here. but keep the light on for me

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. Sure thing. And we Marylanders did our part, too. We came down and worked the phones, knocked on

doors, and spoke to people. I'm not a TA fan, but I am rooting for Herring. It'll break my heart if he loses.

The light is on.

However, I really do need to go to bed. I have to be at work early and here I am up as if I don't have to get any sleep.

See ya!!

[Heather MC]

44. Night Nite!

[North Carolina Knigh]

7. Financing the 3rd party candidate was brilliant

Great move by the DNC.

[last1standing]

31. I didn't hear about the DNC financing a 3rd party candidate. Can you elaborate?

I'm always interested in hearing what the DNC is doing.

[spooky3]

32. It was probably tongue-in-cheek. The libertarian got >5% of the vote but it's not

clear that Cuccinelli was hurt by this. The exit polls reported by the WaPo indicated that a lot of voters in their 20s (this demographic group voted heavily for Obama previously) went much more strongly for the libertarian this year than did other demographic groups. So the third party candidate was probably a wash.

[last1standing]

59. May I ask the source of this information?

n/t

[last1standing]

61. No, you didn't say that you'd heard it on your "local radio in southern Virginia."

So you come to DU and accuse the Democratic Party of illegally funding a third party because your local (most likely conservative) radio told you he did.

I find it interesting what sorts of sources you automatically believe.

[last1standing]

62. I took your advice and google'd it. Strange, only right wing sources popped up.

What local station were you listening to when you heard this story?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

47. bitter?

hahahahhahahhahah!!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

58. because the DNC didn't finance 3rd party candidate

so it kind of seems like you're making stuff up

[Lithos]

8. Woot!

Nice...

[grantcart]

9. too f*&*ing close!!

[jimlup]

12. It worries me that it was so damn close...

What happened to the 6% lead the polls gave him?? I'm wondering why the bat-shit crazies had as much traction at the polls as they did.

[Dopers_Greed]

16. The Repug cheating and voter purges probably didn't help.

But Obama has been getting horrible press non-stop for the past few weeks. I bet that most undecideds went for Cooch.

[GatorOrange]

13. Waaaay Too Close!

The GOP voter purge shenanigans and just a general "Meh" feelinge I know many have for Terry had me really worried heading into today. The Kook is a grade A certified nutjob that had to be defeated. I'm glad things worked out well there today.

[Myrina]

14. What's the possibility of a recount?

[Pterodactyl]

15. woo hoo

[Sophiegirl]

17. I am dismayed.

I cannot believe that the race is this close!

I'm quite sad that so many people are either grossly misinformed, completely out of touch with the present, hold primitive (and other backwater) viewpoints or have become the Stepford Wives of VA, courtesy of the ultra right wing Teato-heads.

I say this as a resident of Northern VA. SMH

[Bigredhunk]

18. HP Reported Last-Minute Robocalling

Some shit about forced abortions or easy abortions or something.

[spooky3]

33. I got some claiming McAuliffe took out fraudulent life insurance policies on

people in order to profit from their deaths. This smear was thoroughly debunked in the media but one of these calls came in the day before the election. Lies, lies, and desperate lies.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-10-11/local/42926762_1_terry-mcauliffe-insurance-scam-identities

Other robocalls featured a woman's voice urging me to "vote (my) Catholic values" and you can imagine what BS followed. By the way, I am not Catholic.

[watoos]

19. In one way it is better that it was close because

the wing nuts will keep putting out Taliban candidates. They will not learn from this defeat.

[BlueEye]

34. I agree. The media has been calling this election a referendum...

on what kind of candidates the GOP should field in 2014 and 2016. Of course Christie easily won reelection tonight. But the Cooch lost narrowly enough that the Teahadists will continue their mindless primary crusade where they nominate unelectable whackos. I am fearful that Christie could give Clinton a run in the general, but if they put up Cruz??? We'll slaughter them.

[leftynyc]

48. Agree

Someone mentioned that last night. That the establishment republicans were hoping for a moderate wins/extremist loses (Christie/Cooch) to send a message to the teabaggers to take a back seat. That didn't happen so I'm sure we can look forward to more crazy right candidates in 2014. The Democrats need to challenge each and every one of them.

[dawn frenzy adams]

20. McAuliffe win says something else.

It wasn't that Cuccinelli was that strong. McAuliffe was not a good candidate. Since he pulled off this win, it reveals how much people couldn't stand Cuccinelli. Besides, as long as we trust the Republicans to count our votes, we should be worried. After all, how many times have we accepted the exist polls were wrong? Hell, how many elections have they stole?

[RoccoRyg]

21. And the Cooch goes down!

Perhaps, from now on, the Republicans shouldn't nominate people who want women who get miscarriages to report it to the local sheriff so he can investigate. That kind of thing may turn people off.

[Snake Plissken]

23. that's not the kind of insanity you can just turn off like a switch

They put in a tremendous amount of effort to become that batshit crazy

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. It was a classic "voting against" election.

[Snake Plissken]

25. Usually you can say in a few weeks from now no one will remember who he ran against and beat

In this case, a few weeks from now no one will remember who the batshit crazy guy in Virginia lost to.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. Terry just said the people of Virginia are glad the TV ads are now over....

Were they THAT bad?

[Still Waters]

29. Yes. And the airwaves were flooded with them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Just scouted YouTube for a few.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

37. I live in Maryland, and we are so sick of that shit! Finally I can work out in the gym in peace! :)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. This is why people zone out with ipods.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

45. Yeah, I typically have mine on, but sometimes they turn the t.v. volume up so high and the tv's are

right there in your face. Hard to ignore. You get distracted.

Or... maybe it's time for me to get some new and better music to run to. Hmmm...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

46. "The Song Remains the Same" soundtrack has a 26:52 version of "Dazed and Confused".

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

52. Thank you!! I'll check it out.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

55. It's up on YouTube...

[KamaAina]

38. So are the people of DC and MD.

Who were subjected to them because NoVA is part of the DC market.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. That explains why the DC pundits were so obsessed.

[Beacool]

28. I just have an enormous sense of relief.

[KamaAina]

39. "Don't go out there looking like your dog just got run over."

-Roger Ailes, Faux News* magus, to his troops on Election Night 2012, after he (and he alone) had seen exit polling confirming President Obama's re-election.

[OldRedneck]

49. As of 0630 Wednesday morning, Democrats sweep Virginia top three offices

As of 0630 Wednesday morning, Democrats have won the top three elected positions in Virginia.


Governor
McAuliffe: 47.75%
Cuccinelli: 45.27%
Sarvis (Libertarian): 6.52%

Lt Gov
Northam: 55.14%
Jackson: 44.49%


Attorney General
Herring: 49.91%
Obenshain: 49.88%

HOWEVER:

1. Absentee votes are still being counted in some districts, mostly in heavily-Democratic Northern Virginia.

2. There likely will be a recount in the AG race.

3. Republicans still hold the Virginia House of Delegates, 67 to 33.

3. The State Senate is still a 20-20 tie; Ralph Northam (D), as Lt Gov, will vote in case of a tie.


In his concession speech, Ken Cuccinelli ranted about how this election was a referendum on Obamacare. It was not, except in the minds of a few Tealiban. The election was about Cooch, Jackson, and Obenshain . . . three of the most radical rightwing nutjobs ever put together on a single ticket.

[Ohio Joe]

50. Congrats VA!

Nice job

[Bluenorthwest]

51. Awfully close margin considering the 'experts' said Terry was going to take it by 10 points because

he was super competitive. It is almost as if the 'experts' are just guessing about who is 'competitive' as they are unable to quantify their margins. I thought it was landslide time from what the pros were saying yesterday. I wonder if the 'experts' might have botched the call in NJ as well, it might have been wise to at least try to win there instead of folding because 'experts' claimed to know the future.

[Beacool]

53. Exit polls showed that the problems with the roll out of the ACA hurt McAuliffe.

He probably would have had an easier win if so many people weren't ticked off by the glitches with the ACA website. The Right wing media and even some of the MSM have been bashing Obama and the administration relentlessly over this issue. It was bound to affect McAuliffe in VA.

[appleannie1]

54. My daughter called last night singing her version of "LaCooch a Roca". She went to work late to be

able to vote against him. She said "he lost Chesapeake and if he lost Chesapeake, he lost the state". Looks like she was right.

[Phlem]

65. " in a surprisingly close victory."

So tired of the FOX spin.

-p

[blkmusclmachine]

66. I guess McAuliffe should be grateful to Sarvis, the Cuccinelli sucking Independent on the ballot.