RandallFan
05-17-2014, 04:21 PM
This blog spends a little time knocking "data journalism" (when it's dry and pointless) and promising Democratic doom in 2014, but this collection of words by Jennifer Rubin gives me an opportunity to reverse myself. "I spoke this week to GOP donors and operatives on the 'establishment' side of the party," writes Rubin. I'm sure she did, so the rampaging optimism on display here is probably their fault, not hers, though so many of its points could be obliterated with links to public polls.
Ed Gillespie in Virginia is a good example of a candidate who wins over donors and state activists who then are willing to take a chance on a race in which the Republican is still the clear underdog.
Current polling shows Mark Warner up 19 points on Gillespie, in a state Democrats were barely able to win in 2012 and 2013.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/05/09/the_dizzying_heights_of_republican_optimism.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/05/09/what-the-gop-establishment-is-thinking-about-the-2014-races/
Ed Gillespie's campaign is going to put food on the table for the needy families of GOP consultants.
Ed Gillespie in Virginia is a good example of a candidate who wins over donors and state activists who then are willing to take a chance on a race in which the Republican is still the clear underdog.
Current polling shows Mark Warner up 19 points on Gillespie, in a state Democrats were barely able to win in 2012 and 2013.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/05/09/the_dizzying_heights_of_republican_optimism.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/05/09/what-the-gop-establishment-is-thinking-about-the-2014-races/
Ed Gillespie's campaign is going to put food on the table for the needy families of GOP consultants.