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Redstate
Virginia
By:
Erick Erickson
November
6th, 2013
Ken
Cuccinelli is a friend and I am sorry he lost.
In
2009, the Republican National Committee spent $9 million to win
Virginia by a big margin. For the past 48 hours, the party bosses
have been screaming to everyone about how much money they poured in
this time in Virginia. We’ve had a few diarists at RedState
document it and suck it up as gospel truth that the RNC did all it
could this time.
The
RNC spent $9 million in 2009 to win and spent $3 million this time,
pulling money out of Virginia, to lose by a hair. The RNC truly
screwed up in Virginia this time and no amount of spinning can
distract from that screw up. It was Election Day itself when someone
finally noticed the 3rd party candidate, Sarvis, had been funded by a
major Obama donor. Election Day the GOP finally notices this!
Cuccinelli
had all the insiders aligned against him. He was the outsider. The
gays hated him, the Chamber of Commerce hated him, the kid killers
hated him, the GOP establishment hated him — all the insiders hated
Cuccinelli and his campaign made the strategic blunder to try to work
their way inside instead of dancing with the folks who got him to the
dance. The campaign manager was fired too late and the campaign fell
behind by double digits. Compounding that, the Democrats massively
outspent him, Governor McDonnell is involved in a scandal, and the
GOP voted to raise taxes with Cuccinelli struggling to distance
himself from both.
The
Obama Machine took advantage of all of this and went into high gear.
They intended to deliver the state for McAuliffe decisively.
Then
something happened.
We
call it Obamacare. As stories about Obamacare grew, Cuccinelli’s
deficit in the polls started shrinking. He lost last night in a race
everyone, myself included, expected to be a blowout for Terry
McAuliffe. Obamacare poisoned McAuliffe’s campaign at the end.
Reporters widely noted the President did not mention Obamacare went
he went into Virginia to campaign for McAuliffe.
Liberals,
last night, began spinning quickly that McAuliffe’s victory proves
Obamacare is not a drag. He went from a double digit lead to a race
too close to call for several hours after the polls closed. The GOP
kept the Virginia House. Obamacare continues to be a millstone around
the Democrats’ neck…
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the rest of the article at Redstate
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