We had that problem in TX, too. The establishment GOP seems to hate the Tea Party worst than the Dems do. I guess because the TP poses a threat to their good ol' boy power structure. The last Senatoral race was won resoundingly by the TP (ever hear of Ted Cruz?) But the the grass roots activism that the TP brings that is winning a lot of local elections is ignored.mamabearCali wrote:There is a spoiler in VA. Sarvis. A third party candidate that is sucking 10% of the vote. Additionally Cuchinelli did an unwise thing and instead of mobilizing VA local politics ( tea party types) he snubbed them and went with Washington elite advisors and then ran from himself the entire political season. That and he is being outspent something like 2:1. Virginia will likely be ok as our legislature is red. What we will get is 4 years of gridlock. The last two D governors did very unpopular things. Then McConnell was elected and then this Jan the D's smeared him, loudly and for an extended period of time. Some of that bled over to Ken. It stinks. But I am going to the polls and so are me parents and my sibling to vote for Cuchinelli. It ain't over till it is over.
Do you think that gun rights/gun control is a big swinger in the VA election? Outsiders are playing it to be but, as happened in CO, maybe after the fact and a loss, it will be about something else. Let's hope that the good people of VA override the huddled masses in Richmond, etc that rubber stamp whatever Dem is running and don't give Mayor Bloomy a victory. It will only encourage him to do this again elsewhere.