BREAKING: Brand new Q-Poll has McAuliffe up 6 pts. Over Crazy Ken Cuccinelli in VA-Gov Race

[lowkell]

http://bluevirginia.us/diary/9973/qpoll-mcauliffe-48cuccinelli-42-among-likely-voters

[Little Star]

1. Oh please. I'd love to see McAuliffe beat out Cuccinelli even though I'm....

not from Virginia. Think I've been listening to Rachel Maddow too much. She's been on a roll for quite a while about those ass-wipe republican's in VA.

[mountain grammy]

2. This is good news, but the crazy, rich right wingers aren't finished..

They're gearing up for a big smear of McAuliffe. Really doesn't matter if it's true. We can only hope Virginia voters will vote for what's good for them and not the 1%.

[DFW]

9. Confirmed, unfortunately

I was on the phone about ten minutes ago with someone very involved in the campaign, and he says that we should expect an outright avalanche of Republican money being thrown into this race on the Republican side. It doesn't mean we lose at the last minute, but it does mean no slacking off until the day after the election. No Charles Evans Hughes surprises permitted.

[mountain grammy]

10. Yep, I can see the likes of the Kochs writing those checks with a sneer on their faces.

My best day will be a McAuliffe victory and the Kochs crying over more wasted millions. Meantime I'll send McAuliffe a donation.

[rurallib]

3. Cooch openly takes bribes and still gets 42%

That says a lot about Virginia voters.
Throw in a murder or 2 and he might drop below 40.

[iandhr]

5. Its also says something about...

... Terry McAuliffe as a candidate.

[freedom fighter jh]

4. I know almost nothing about McAuliffe but

he'd have to be record-setting awful to be worse than the Kooch.

[jeff47]

7. He's pretty close, actually.

McAuliffe is one of the architects of the Clinton administration's "third way" policies.

There's no particular reason to vote for McAuliffe, but there's plenty of reasons to vote against Kooch the insane.

[mountain grammy]

11. No doubt, he's real close to the Clintons and loves the smell of money any time of the day..

but he'll be a decent governor for Virginia and bring some sanity back to that state. One more step towards saving America from the Republican party.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. But will people who support McAuliffe be able to cast their vote?

[freedom fighter jh]

8. Can't speak for the whole State of VA but

where I live in VA you have a choice between electronic and paper ballots.

Paper ballots are what we need, but the way it's set up they're almost meaningless because:

* even the paper ballots are counted electronically, leaving open the possibility of systemic fraud, and
* as long as a lot of the votes are done on computer, votes can still be flipped and some paper ballots won't make any difference.

Usually the lines for computerized voting are longer than the ones for paper ballots. Go figure.

[mgcgulfcoast]

12. we have this one in the bag.

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