Dave Wasserman thinks the GOP can win the governor race in VA

[DemocracyWins]

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If I were Dems in VA I wouldn't sleep on this race. President Obama won Virigina by 6 in 2008 and Bob Mcdonnell the governor race won virigina the next year by 17 points, so lets not take this race for granted DNC.

Link to tweet

[spooky3]

1. No one's sleeping.

Wasserman just wants a horse race.

I cast my primary ballot for McAuliffe today.

[rogue emissary]

2. +1

I voted for McClellan, but would be happy to vote for McAuliffe in the general.

The replies to his tweet point out he has to use eight year old data to make his point.

[PortTack]

9. Oh I agree! Ya know he's not usually like that, so surprising. McAullife is very popular

Have seen some very strong polling numbers for him.

[brooklynite]

11. Why does Wasserman "want a horse race"?

People who pay $350 for a Cook Political subscription don't need to be excited to sign up.

[spooky3]

12. The question you should be asking is why he would assume that anyone in VA needs to be told

not to "sleep" about this election? What evidence is there that anyone is doing that? Or, you could ask why he interpreted the prior election data in the odd way that he did.

If you have a better answer than that he wants a horserace, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Jennifer Rubin had harsher replies to him, as you may have seen.

[brooklynite]

13. How about (just an idea): its part of his job to comment on political campaigns?

[spooky3]

14. And how about this: we are free to comment on his comments. Nt

[brooklynite]

15. You are certainly free to comment...

...but assertions without evidence ("he wants a horse race&quot don't make compelling reading.

[underpants]

3. McDonnell was a cant miss candidate. I was very surprised to hear Youngkin won

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but I read today that he was clearly better at organization and staffing and the delegate game over Cox and the others.

The first ad I saw for McDonnell I said “We can’t beat that”. Seriously he is like the perfect candidate. If he hadn’t screwed up and if he’d had some time to decompress he could have stopped Trump from getting their nomination. Alas, so goes history.

[spooky3]

4. Who is McDonald? Nt

[underpants]

8. McDonnell. Oops

[spooky3]

10. Oh, OK. I wondered if there was someone named that in this year's crop of crazies. nt

[Yavin4]

5. Here's how you run against Youngkin, or any Republican for that matter.

Mr. Youngkin, do you believe that Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020 in a fair election? Do you support Donald Trump's assertions that the election was stolen?


Ask him those questions and he either angers his Republican base or the the non-Republican base.

[WarGamer]

6. I wouldn't even call VA a purple state...

North of Confederate Battlefield-Land (Spotsylvania County, etc...) it's deep BLUE.

[uponit7771]

7. Na, Democrats have already started to demonize the GOP selection as anti democracy candidate