Democrat McAuliffe Wins Virginia Governor’s Race In A Landslide

Terry McAuliffe won the governor’s race in Virginia 48% to Tea Party hero Ken Cuccinelli’s 45%. While most Americans don’t consider a 3% margin a landslide, in a state as right wing red as Virginia, a win by a Democrat by any percentage is a clear mandate by the voters.

The only real support received by Cuccinelli was from married people, but in a southern state it is traditional for the wife to vote for the Republican/Tea Party candidate chosen by her husband. Married women are forced to be soldiers in the GOP’s war on women, and this fact had single women in Virginia voting overwhelmingly for McAuliffe. This was the same preference shown by unmarried men.

Cuccinelli made a plea for women’s support, claiming as Virginia’s AG he was the only person in the race to do anything to protect women. This may be true, as attorney general his job was as a prosecutor, but as governor he would be free to participate in the Republicans’ ongoing attack on women’s rights. Another fact that did not go unnoticed by unmarried voters in that state.

The conservatives and neoconservatives want voters to believe the vast majority believe as they do, but as the GOP loses the internal conflict with its Tea Party branch they are losing the valuable centrist vote.

The power of the business friendly/anti-worker/anti-consumer contingent of the Republican Party has been stolen by the TP members. TPers are only concerned with passing tax cuts and spending cuts, with an occasional interruption to assist in oppressing women. With such a narrow agenda, Tea Partiers are biting the hand that feeds the GOP, and Big Business is getting fed up.

If Boehner keeps caving to the will of the clueless TPers, he will become the major cause of the growing irrelevance of his party. This can only be good for the nation as a whole.

http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-governors-race-too-close-call-polls-close-010915035.html

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The right wing doesn't want to hear this. Now, governor ultrasound will be indicted, and the corruption will tarnish the image of the 'holier than though' Virginia populous.

 

Sad news , it looks that the Virginians took the message wrong .

We say NO to blowjobs
We say YES to wifebeaters .

maybe Ken's message was too complicated for them ?

 

My niece is an example of who is coming out to vote in VA in 2016; politically aware, highly motivated, late 20's liberal activist. She wasn't nearly as activistic before as now... since people like McDonnell and Cuccinelli took office. I viewed some of the dialogue between her and her friends on Facebook this past week... and realized that the extremist-Conservative activity and effect within the State of VA, have motivated Liberals and moderates to fight back against the Tea Party.

Not that 'any' victory will be easy going forward... but that Americans strongly concerned about what the rule of the Tea Party-influenced politicians means to the various communities/nation in which they live, want to mitigate the effects of the same.

Republicans ultimately need to sell something that the American people truly WANT... not merely 'claim' that Americans desire what they bring to the table. The extremism of the Tea Party brand will only get the GOP so far.

 

Right wingers will back anybody, so long as that (R) is next to their name....(soon to be indicted ex-governors included).

 

Yeah, it's a self destructive thing that kind of goes along with our American version of Conservatism.

 

Hilarious considering lefties are still backing Obama in the wake of the incredible Obamacare EPIC disaster. Obama could beat a crippled elderly woman with a sac of kittens and puppies and you guys would reload the sac for him. Bottom line people will be spitting on lefties as soon as the Obamacare hits more and more wallets of the middle class. Not only cant you keep your plan or your doctor, you cant even keep your job.
The great leftist plan of insuring the uninsured was solved by uninsuring the insured.

 

That's just negative hype. The ACA is far from perfect, but it's exceedingly better than the NOTHING that was originally being done.

 

Just another sign of this country's great divide. The fact a Republican could garner so many votes in a state where half the population works in DC should be a warning to Dims.

But as we can see by this thread, theyre still living in denial.

 

Hype my a$$. Insuring the uninsured by uninsuring the insured. Your NOTHING argument has just been moved not fixed. I also completely disagree, nothing was far better than this as nothing wasnt destroying the economy, jobs and peoples lives. Nothing also didnt get up and lie to the nation 30 times.

 

Yep. THAT is exactly what you're doing to yourself. You're spouting a bunch of overly pessimistic nonsense, caked with a Conservative bias that is easy to detect these days.

Not ALL about the ACA is excellent, but some important things truly are good.

Doing NOTHING wasn't going to work; that is certain.

 

McAuliffe defeated Cuccinelli in a surprisingly razor-thin 47-46 percent victory to become Virginia's next governor,

Land slide? Really?

 

Not a "landslide", but surely significant, considering the overall political dynamics and trends in VA.

 

Since i am following Ken for a couple of years because he is a funny guy i have to ask



who are those 8% ?

 

What happened to if you like your plan you can keep you plan.....PERIOD? Are you admitting that was a lie. Some people like carrying low insurance and low payments and do not want to pay for more coverage that they dont want which is exactly what you are trying to imply above. Its only a better plan if you wanted more coverage. People who didnt are now forced to buy coverage they dont want for more money. This proves Obama is a liar.

This is like going to a restaurant ordering a burger and then the waiter brings you out dessert and appetizers that you did not order or wanted, and when you tell the waiter you didnt want or order those he says "If you like your burger you can keep your burger, the appetizers and desert are half price today, its a good deal. You should be happy". That waiter sounds like a real bunghole doesnt he?

 

No it wasnt, making it exponentially worse is not the answer, that is certain also. Do lefties cut their arm off to fix a splinter? I mean you gotta do something to fix the splinter right?

 

Lol, I didn't expect it to be a landslide, but I did suspect a dishonest op from you and its confirmed. 3% is not a landslide. Go ahead, celebrate your faux miracle. Everyone knew the GOP candidate was about as far from center as they come today, and that a libertarian was drawing away GOP votes. This in a supposedly "super red right wing state" that votes for Obama twice. *rolls eyes*

 

Landslide? Without the libertarian where would you be? Let me know when you break 50 before you gloat about landslide.

You see libertarians? When you vote libertarian party you get far left socialists like fast terry.

Virginia is going blue anyway. Being bought up by high paying government work. DC is too small to fit all the Obama cronies and special interest groups. Plus Reid and Pelosi's cohort is surprising they haven't taken over West Virginia too. Those government taxpayer sponsored havens for the ruling class are recession proof too. Good times they take. In bad times they take more.

 

Despite the sour grapes of the right-wingers, a victory by a Democrat in one of he reddest states in the union is a landslide. Even if he won by only ONE vote.

 

If you have an insurance policy that only covers a small % of potential injury, then when the unexpected happens, someone else has to pay the emergency room cost and treatment cost that will most likely exceed 10 times what your deductable was, which you were obviously not going to be able to pay.

If you are in the situation, where you have decided you only need minimal health care, and you are well off enough economically, to afford a full cover plan, then you are being selfish, and expecting others to have to bear the cost for your risk.

If your reason to have only minimal coverage is because you cannot afford the full coverage, then you have a valid reason, however, if a plan can be offered to you which DOES provide full coverage, for no more than you are paying for you limited plan, then it should be the logical choice, as the same doctor,the same emergency room, same hospital, will be payed, regardless of which insurance program. So might as well take advantage and get full coverage for same cost as your current junk low coverage insurance plan, with a subsidy provided, according to your current economic level.

Basically what ACA is, is a means tested Medicare/Medicaid type of insurance. If your are in the wealthy class, you will probably have to pay more. If middle class, you will get higher coverage plan, for the same cost or less of your current not so good coverage plan. If low income or poor, you will be subsidized according to your ability to pay.

Im sure if ones economic condition changes, say from poor to middleclass, then the subsidy will be less, and eventually, if one reaches upper middleclass, or wealthy, then the subsidy ends, and you may have to start paying more out of pocket. However, thats fair, given that you are able to now afford to do that, while those who may remain poor,or lower income will not be able to, until such time as they might be able themselves to become more affluent.

Its really quite simple, and logical. This is probably why some people cannot understand it, in the context of a pyramid capitalist system, where only those who acquire some measure of wealth are deemed worthy of health care, while the poor are considered expendable. Sorry, but this is the 21st century, and our society is integrated, diverse, and much more educated than the old paradigm of privelaged class. WE THE PEOPLE demand EQUALITY concerning basic rights, of which healthcare has now become a necessary one for the benefit of ALL of us.

 

It is all the "doing" that caused the problem in the first place. You lefties act like government was t heavily involved in health care before and that it isn't responsible for the rising costs.

 

I disagree,,FRAUD is never better than nothing. The public is slow, had this current conversation about Obama care been outed a while ago I believe this race would look like Obama's approval numbers....
It will catch up, bet on it.....

 

You want equality of outcome. Shelter is necessary. Do you want equal shelter next?

My plan was great. It is being canceled. I am now having to get an inferior plan for 250% more. Keep towing that lefty line. No matter what they say next run with it. When the employer plans get canceled get ready for your next story to spin.

Pyramid scheme? You mean like social security and Medicare?

It is selfish to buy your own care, but not selfish to want others to buy yours for you?

Where do you think this money comes from? Where do you think the money for new jobs will come from? How many people do you hope to get on welfare?

 

I am just glad I don't live in Virginia. I don't know much about Cuccinelli but Mccauliffe wants to make things I own illegal.

 

We disagree, at least for now.

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And while I'm surely not anti-Right at my core... I can indeed say that the extremism of those presently controlling the Right, has compelled me to move even further toward the Left.