Obama Blue by 17% last year back to solid Red in Virginia.


Blowout carries down ticket it appears too

Hopefully you are happy because he is the best man for the job, and not just because you think it sucks for Obama and makes him look bad.

All of the above

Sucking for Obama is a bonus.

Majority of voters say Obama was not a factor in their votes. Sorry to throw a cold shower on the right's hysteria!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/03/...4455.shtml

(11-03-2009 10:35 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Majority of voters say Obama was not a factor in their votes. Sorry to throw a cold shower on the right's hysteria!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/03/...4455.shtml

Nice of you to defend Obama Mr. "I want a balanced budget".

You're a man with no principles, only a party. That, in my opinion, isn't a man. .....and you ain't.

Obama campaigned for them. And a majority said he wasn't a factor. Your throw of a cold shower missed.

If you had read your link, of those who said he was a factor, you might have noticed that in all cases, voters said they voted against instead of for Obama.

(11-03-2009 10:35 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Majority of voters say Obama was not a factor in their votes. Sorry to throw a cold shower on the right's hysteria!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/03/...4455.shtml

Well, they don't call it the spin room for nothing. 40-44% of voters saying that the president did affect their vote is a HUGE percentage. (And for the record, that was split pro- and anti-Obama).

Anyway, taking a number out of context is remarkably ignorant, "Hey the air was only 44% carbon monoxide, the other 56% was clean air. Shouldn't make a difference!"

Obama's approval rating in the South is 28%, over 70% in the Northeast

Obama was campaigning in Virginia just 5 days ago before he went into damage control mode.

try winning in 2012 without states like Virginia, oh merciful one

(11-04-2009 08:44 AM)GGniner Wrote:  try winning in 2012 without states like Virginia, oh merciful one

Nice poster. It's all about Obama. Geesh. Oh wait, you can make out a blurred sign for "Deed" in the background.

That's probably why the guy lost, Obama supporters didn't see Obama's name on the ballot so they didn't know what to do.

Creed was not popular man in Democratic circles. The serious polictical wags didn't think Creed ran a vigourous nor effective campaign.

As one from Virginia who actually voted yesterday, let's be clear about a few things. If Obama was all that, then his word would have sent out thousands of his minions to do his bidding. They either (1) stayed home as about 1/3 of the African American vote or (2) voted Republican. Either way, Obama has some egg on his face. Secondly, McDonnell ran an excellent and disciplined campaign, stayed positive and focused on the issues like, jobs and his opponent Creigh Deeds ran a terrible campaign in that he started negative early and stayed negative. Health care polled way down on the list of things important to voters yesterday, by the way. Deeds did win a three way democratic primary, but his campaign in that was to duck while McAuliffe and Moran threw crap at each other and when the smoke cleared he won. Another big loser in this is the Washington Post who endorsed all democrats at the top of the ticket and in a very spirited way. They ran one of the most nasty endorsement pieces, I've ever seen. It appears that McDonnell won Fairfax County (the largest DC suburban county in Virginia). So, the Post and Obama in my view were the big losers yesterday.

(11-04-2009 04:01 PM)EastStang Wrote:  As one from Virginia who actually voted yesterday, let's be clear about a few things. If Obama was all that, then his word would have sent out thousands of his minions to do his bidding. They either (1) stayed home as about 1/3 of the African American vote or (2) voted Republican.

During the last 2 days I've heard an awful lot about how the blacks didn't show up in large numbers to vote. Was it racial? Do they only vote when they believe their candidate will make their house payments for them? What is the reason? You can't scream that you hate whatever party is voted in if you don't make an effort an vote.

(11-04-2009 10:09 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(11-04-2009 04:01 PM)EastStang Wrote:  As one from Virginia who actually voted yesterday, let's be clear about a few things. If Obama was all that, then his word would have sent out thousands of his minions to do his bidding. They either (1) stayed home as about 1/3 of the African American vote or (2) voted Republican.

During the last 2 days I've heard an awful lot about how the blacks didn't show up in large numbers to vote. Was it racial? Do they only vote when they believe their candidate will make their house payments for them? What is the reason? You can't scream that you hate whatever party is voted in if you don't make an effort an vote.

That doesn't surprise me. Many blacks in this country haven't come to the blatant conclusion that they're Americans, and not "African-Americans". They thought this in the early to mid 1900's; they just lost it when the liberal social engineers got their hands on them. That's why you saw a 95% vote for Obama. Didn't matter about his policies. What mattered was he was a black dude.

I'm not black, and won't say I can walk in their shoes, but if I was I'd be pretty damned offended if someone were to refer to me as a hyphenated American after all they'd worked and fought for. It's why I use "bLack pAnthers", in that spelling, when referring to those radical Islamic sumbitchs. They are NOT the "Black Panthers", a decorated unit that served this country with honor in World War II.

black vote came out in CLT for mayors race

(11-04-2009 10:24 PM)GGniner Wrote:  black vote came out in CLT for mayors race

Black guy running? If so, I'm not surprised. It's almost tribal. ...and I mean no offense with that. It's called conditioning. I'll vote for anyone who I agree with. Color be damned. I'd LOVE for Herman Cain to run.

yep, an inexperienced democrat, barely won Mayors race. CLT is probably following the same path ATL has.

business in CLT is screwed, will be good for surrounding counties though.