I'm still very cautious about all this, all I can think about is all those years of losing, all those years in the wilderness, it could all be over in one week. I'm pretty much convinced this race is over, but by the looks of polling now is how much will it be over by? The DCPost poll has McDonnell up by 11%, and ahead even among women. They still managed to mentioned the thesis in the second paragraph, but oh well.
The Survey USA poll just out has McDonnell +17, Bolling +14, and Cuccinelli +16. Insane, these numbers and the fact that it was just 12 months ago Virginia was swept by the Democrats. The question now is how deep will this go.
The Public Policy Poll, a group out of North Carolina that is DEM heavy outfit, they have a new poll that doesn't even have Wagner or Shannon breaking 40%. Their numbers are McDonnell +15, Bolling +12, and Cuccinelli +16.
Seriously, how bad of a campaign has all three of these Democrats run. I mean, the landslide looks to be so big that you can no longer even call it a bellweather on Obama, though its part of it. Whatever the Democrats did in the 2000s, these three aren't doing it. Deeds has been awful, but I want more scrutiny on Shannon and Wagner. Wagner seems to have been aimless, focusing on attacking Bolling rather than doing anything of note positive and everything in her professional political background is failure upon failure. Of all the candidates, she is the most closely aligned with Tim Kaine and a refecltion on him. Whatever the polls say about Tim Kaine, Wagner's failure to get anywhere in this race against Bolling shows that the Tim Kaine Record is not something anyone can run on and get elected.
As for Shannon, I think he has fallen into the trap that so many other Democrats have when dealing with Ken Cuccinelli. They assume that his political ideology will do him in and fail to realize his true strength is his ability to relate those very conservative principles to kitchen table issues. Shannon has never had to work particularly hard in his career in the House of Delegates and I think he figured Ken was the right-wing maniac that nobody would or could relate too. Like so many Democrats, he never saw coming how can is so great and eveloping together his ideology, his work ethic, and his popularity. People like Ken, and Democrats and Shannon were arrogant enough to think that because they don't like his politics that that would translate into the rest of the state and they wouldn't have to work hard at it.
Ken's race is also a show of how strong, potentially, tea party and conservative grassroots activists can be. You don't get as conservative as Cuccinelli and to win in the manner of which he is winning so far (knock on wood) its impressive.
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