3rd party candidate funded by Obama donor tips Va. governor’s race to Dems
Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday by a razor thin margin, with a big assist from a 3rd party candidate that reports say was funded by a major Obama donor.
With nearly all precincts reporting, McAuliffe was ahead with just 48 percent of the vote, to Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s 45 percent, Fox News reported.
Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis garnered 6.7 percent of the vote, or just over 130,000 votes.
Heavily outspent and trailing in the polls for much of the race, Cuccinelli made it surprisingly close, according to Fox News. Exit polls show the disastrous launch of Obamacare was very much a factor, with voters opposed to the health care law breaking big in favor of Cuccinelli.
“Despite being outspent by an unprecedented $15 million, this race came down to the wire because of ObamaCare,” Cuccinelli said in his concession speech. “That message will go out to the entire country tonight.”
As close as the race was, a report out Tuesday by The Blaze indicates that there were shenanigans at play:
“A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot.”
According to the report, campaign finance records show that the Libertarian Booster PAC made the largest independent contribution to Sarvis’ campaign.
The Blaze identified Austin, Texas, software billionaire Joe Liemandt as the Libertarian Booster PAC’s major benefactor. He also happens to be a top bundler for President Barack Obama.
How the Republican Party missed this is surprising, to say the least.
“This was clearly a very winnable race, in spite of what people say about conservatives or the government shutdown,” Breitbart’s Mike Flynn wrote following Tuesday’s election.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11/06/3rd-party-candidate-funded-by-obama-donor-tips-va-governors-race-to-dems-86639 (http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11/06/3rd-party-candidate-funded-by-obama-donor-tips-va-governors-race-to-dems-86639)
Rapunzel, is that you? Excuses and spin, spin and excuses.We get that you hate conservatives and think you're smarter than anyone here, but stop the snark at other posters.
We get that you hate conservatives and think you're smarter than anyone here, but stop the snark at other posters.Not right. I am a conservative, but not of the narrow definition which you currently use.
Not right. I am a conservative, but not of the narrow definition which you currently use.
But fortunately you are not the sole source for defining conservatism.
BTW are you scolding me in your role as Moderator?
Does your role as Moderator give you the right to state "you hate conservatives," with impunity?
Is that a good example for other moderators, and posters in general?
Not right. I am a conservative, but not of the narrow definition which you currently use.
But fortunately you are not the sole source for defining conservatism.
BTW are you scolding me in your role as Moderator?
Does your role as Moderator give you the right to state "you hate conservatives," with impunity?
Is that a good example for other moderators, and posters in general?
Those are damned good questions, T_S.
:shrug:
Stay out of it DC.
Like hell I will.
I have just as much right to post in here as you or anybody else.
You have no business being a moderator. None.
I didn't post as a mod... if you bothered to read this thread you'd see I hadn't posted on it but your friend used it to go after me...
I'm not limiting this thread as the source of my opinion on the matter.
You're one of my favorite posters Rap, but........ :chairbang:
When someone makes a personal attack on me... I will not bite my tongue.
How does it feel? You repeatedly take shots at me, so I gave you back a taste.
When someone makes a personal attack on me... I will not bite my tongue.
Well, golly!
Doesn't that work for some of us who find ourselves continuously being pigen-holed? And in posts from a person who happens to be a Moderator?
It's a two-way street, Rap. :beer:
How does it feel? You repeatedly take shots at me, so I gave you back a taste.
I have bit my tongue many times, when you took shots at me.
If anyone moderates here we do it as MOD... those are far and few between.
If I have something to say about or to you DC I say it to your face and as me, not as a mod. If you think it's appropriate to make a personal attack on a mod and expect they will just take it because they also happen to be a mod you're wrong. A personal attack is still a personal attack and that post was done deliberately to attack me on a thread I was not even posting on. You're going after the wrong person here!!!!!
The GOP lost this winnable election, because their candidate was too extreme for his electorate.
In 2009 GOP McDonnell got 58.6% and easily won.
In 2013 GOP Cuccinelli got 45.5% and lost.
Here is what a leftist source said in analyzing the race:
(you may not like or agree with them, but they hit the nail on the head)
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/11/05/2888221/cuccinelli-defeat-wing-record/
Again, opposing abortion for rape cases, is too far for most electorates, and makes the candidate an extremist.
What I think is forgotten here is that perhaps once in awhile, posters just agree to disagree and move on.
That would quell a lot of the tension, IMO.
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Cuccinelli lost by a mere 2.5 percentage points because the GOP establishment refused to support him. The RNC gave Cuccinelli a paltry $85,098, but gave McDonnell $2,253,500. The Republican Party of Virginia gave McDonnell $2,704,348, but gave Cuccinelli only approximately $850,000. Cuccinelli's worst enemies were often Republicans. There was no shortage of prominent RINOs crossing the aisle to endorse leftist McAuliffe, including Boyd Marcus, former chief of staff for Eric Cantor, Dwight Schar, former RNC finance chairman, Judy Ford Wason, a GOP strategist who worked for MCDonnell; former state senate president pro tempore John Chichester; state senator Russ Potts; and former House of Delegates members Vince Callahan, Katherine Waddell, and Jim Dillard. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, sore loser that he was, petulantly refused to endorse Cuccinelli and worked hard against him.
This is only a case of the left wing of the GOP backstabbing a true Conservative. Next time please do your homework before regurgitating such bile.
You continue to push the same stale Akins anti tea party conservative meme on thread after thread as if he represents any of us here or the tea party in general and its gotten really old.
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Cuccinelli lost by a mere 2.5 percentage points because the GOP establishment refused to support him. The RNC gave Cuccinelli a paltry $85,098, but gave McDonnell $2,253,500. The Republican Party of Virginia gave McDonnell $2,704,348, but gave Cuccinelli only approximately $850,000. Cuccinelli's worst enemies were often Republicans. There was no shortage of prominent RINOs crossing the aisle to endorse leftist McAuliffe, including Boyd Marcus, former chief of staff for Eric Cantor, Dwight Schar, former RNC finance chairman, Judy Ford Wason, a GOP strategist who worked for MCDonnell; former state senate president pro tempore John Chichester; state senator Russ Potts; and former House of Delegates members Vince Callahan, Katherine Waddell, and Jim Dillard. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, sore loser that he was, petulantly refused to endorse Cuccinelli and worked hard against him.
This is only a case of the left wing of the GOP backstabbing a true Conservative. Next time please do your homework before regurgitating such bile.
The dems used dirty tricks with this as well. They financed a third party guy and the guy lied and said he was a libertarian. Why doesn't someone with money to throw around- finance someone to challenge Hillary? Fight fire with fire.
It was a coincidence that the thread I was on....immediately preceding this one...was where Luis was attempting to explain that triangle.
So that explains my tack....and tact here, I hope.
You were right in the middle of it over there.
And for the record, what started THAT confrontation was Lipstick going after Luis again. For no logical reason except to throw a shot.
....and you joined in as you're apt to do. :laugh:
I failed to explain the triangle?
:dammit:
Yeah...read it twice and STILL didn't know what the hell you were talking about! :beer:
This is only a case of the left wing of the GOP backstabbing a true Conservative. Next time please do your homework before regurgitating such bile.
Yes this was the first ever case of a GOP candidate not getting everything they wanted from the RNC. First time ever.
Cuccinelli received 3.8% of the amount that the RNC gave McDonnell. That's right, 3.8%. Can you honestly state that this is a case of a GOP candidate not getting everything he wanted from RNC?
The reality is that Cuccinelli had the door slammed in his face---in a very winnable election over one of the most despicable democrats. Thanks RNC!
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/363241/does-rnc-deserve-blame-cuccinellis-loss-jim-geraghty
Jim Geraghty at Nat Review says your numbers are wrong.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/363241/does-rnc-deserve-blame-cuccinellis-loss-jim-geraghty
Jim Geraghty at Nat Review says your numbers are wrong.
He also says that the race was far from "very winnable".
a 2.5% difference between the two main candidates says otherwise in my opinion. It probably would have also helped if Christie would have come down and campaigned, but he didn't want to be associated with a true Conservative.
If the polling had shown a closer race, the RNC undoubtedly would have committed more money. But only two out of 25 polls conducted in Virginia since mid-September showed McAuliffe leading by less than 5 points. Most had the Democrat leading by 7 to 9 points.
From your own link:
The GOP can only make campaign spending decisions based on the polls leading up to the election, not on the post-election results, which is where you're getting your 2.5% from.
If the election was winnable, and McAuliffe was so detestable, why did the voters not vote the other way.