Arrogant McAuliffe Pledges Colorado Like Gun Control Legislation if Elected

[AuH20]

This man is a disgrace.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/23/Terry-McAuliffe-Pledges-Colorado-like-Gun-Control-If-Elected

[Mr.NoSmile]

Poll swaying back and forth now looks to favor him in this election. Again, polls are polls, and again, it mentions how McAuliffe has the women's vote, but both campaigns seem to have been marred by issues:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/terry-mcauliffe-ken-cuccinelli-virginia-governor-2013-poll-97248.html?hp=r7


Both polls also found McAuliffe leading Cuccinelli by double digits among women, with Cuccinelli leading among men by a narrower margin, which has been consistent in many polls this summer. Both also found McAuliffe with a net favorable rating among voters and Cuccinelli with a net unfavorable rating, which has also been a continuing advantage for McAuliffe.

[PaleoPaul]

If I were Cooch, I'd be conducting a MAJOR GOTV effort in the southern parts of Virginia.

[Lucille]

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Virginia Libertarian Is Only Gubernatorial Candidate Focused on Issues
http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/16/virginia-libertarian-is-only-gubernatori


Besides, in order for Sarvis to poll well, the pollsters actually have to ask about him. But they often don’t. Last month Quinnipiac put McAuliffe ahead of Cuccinelli by six points. The poll omitted Sarvis entirely. The same goes for a Rasmussen poll several days ago, which asked: “If the election for governor of Virginia were held today, would you vote for Republican Ken Cuccinelli or Democrat Terry McAuliffe?” It also asked if the two candidates’ campaigns were positive or negative, and which one of them was the more ethical of the two. And: “Which candidate do you trust more to deal with government spending: Ken Cuccinelli or Terry McAuliffe?”

Rasmussen claims a margin of error of only 3 percentage points. That might be accurate from a methodological standpoint, but it seems hard to swallow in a broader sense when it omits a third option who has garnered from 7 percent to 10 percent in other polls. Asking people whether they buy Coke or Pepsi is not going to reflect the actual shopping habits of people who buy 7-Up.

The blackout of third-party candidates by pollsters and the media (to which, by the way, The Times-Dispatch has been an exception) has other consequences as well. For instance, it can keep them out of debates. Sarvis already has been absent from the first gubernatorial debate, held in late July in Hot Springs. He also would have been excluded from a debate hosted by the AARP and the League of Women voters, which set participation at 15 percent. Cuccinelli declined to participate, so that event was canceled.

Later this month the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce will hold another debate. A spokesman says it will exclude Sarvis for “no other reason other than our tradition to provide a forum for the two major party candidates.” That leaves just one last debate, to be held October 24. It will be sponsored by Virginia Tech and WDBJ-7. The threshold for that debate is, or at least was, 10 percent.

Sarvis reached that threshold in late August, in a poll by the Emerson College Polling Society. (If you’re skeptical of Emerson, note that its results are in line with those from the better-known Public Policy Polling, which gave Sarvis 9 percent.) Does this mean he will be invited to the October event? A spokesman for Virginia Tech said the “details of the debate in terms of format, participants, etc.” are in the hands of WDBJ-7’s news director, Kelly Zuber.

Zuber has ignored repeated inquiries.

Others, commendably, have not. Rasmussen says that it is seeing “a shift to a named third-party candidate, in this case Mr. Sarvis, so we will be including his name in our subsequent surveys of this race.”

Perhaps the press could trouble itself to do the same.

[AuH20]

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Virginia Libertarian Is Only Gubernatorial Candidate Focused on Issues
http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/16/virginia-libertarian-is-only-gubernatori

Sarvis is wasting everyone's time and money by torpedoing a quality candidate like Cuccinelli and in the process elevating a cold-blooded shark like McAuliffe to the governor's mansion. There is a reason why the CoC crowd in Virginia despises Cuccinelli and it's one of his strong points.