Terry McAuliffe grabs huge lead as my family votes!

[RedCloud]

Yes it is only one household, but that makes it 3 to 0! Enough of the tea party butt kissers. Enough of the confederate flag worshippers. Enough of the gay bashers. Enough of the plastic insert rapists during ultrasound.

Come on Virginia, smash the Koch bros. puppets!

[leftynyc]

1. Excellent

Hope all your friends and neighbors are all voting today. I'm voting to get rid of an asshole of a county executive today - I even got a robocall from President Clinton.

[longship]

2. That's it!! So it's over!!

Great post, BTW.

[Raine1967]

3. 2 more from my house!

We had a nice line this morning at our polling place.

NO MORE COOCH!

[11 Bravo]

4. 3-0 in our house as well. (And next year our youngest will turn 18, so it will be 4-0!)

[SchmerzImArsch]

5. Can't get excited about a "Democrat"

Of the Rahm Emanuel variety winning. Why didn't the Democrats run a Democrat in the primaries? Maybe they did, and just spent their time and money on the "Democrat" instead.

Rightward we march, a slow Democratic Party death.

[lastlib]

6. Then get excited about a Teabagger Cooch losing!!

Then you can hold the "Democrat"s feet to the fire.

[Ishoutandscream2]

7. Amen. First things first.

[JNelson6563]

9. Exactly. This all or nothing

nonsense is really counter-productive. First keep the Nut-job out of office and then work leftward from there. Why is that so very difficult for some to grasp?

Julie

[Pretzel_Warrior]

11. Wahhhhh! Not a real Democrat!!! Wahhhh!

You sound like Sarah Palin judging who is legit and who is not.

[SchmerzImArsch]

14. I'm sorry, I'm new to this site.

I didn't realize it was poor form to comment on the quality of the candidate so long as the "D" is next to the name.

It won't happen again. I certainly don't want to be accused of being a Sarah Palin.

Yay! My team's winning! BOO-YA!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

15. Oh, you'll fit right in here. Quite a few LOVE

To attack centrist Democrats even though most really progressive candidates get steam rolled in general elections.

[SchmerzImArsch]

17. Can you point me to a steamrolled loss?

And what is wrong with being a member of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party?

[DireStrike]

20. There are quite a few, all of which the progressive democratic candidate has been ignored by the

national party.

Can't be seen supporting a loser, ya know?

[lastlib]

18. Welcome to DU!!

We need you!!

I'm as much a far-lefty as anybody breathing--I'd love to have all of our candidates WIN as far-lefties, and govern accordingly! It's not a perfect world, so I sometimes have to hold my nose a little bit and support candidates whose best quality is that they aren't bat-shit crazy Tea-Partiers. I agree with you that McAuliffe is a real stinker in some respects, but when the alternative is Cucinelli, well, there's no question who I would support. Feel free to criticize candidates as not being left enough, as I and many others do, but when the rubber meets the road, we have to support the ones who are the least imperfect. We welcome your voice, and anything you can do to help us push our country more in the direction we want it to go. I do think that letting the perfect become the enemy of the good will consign our party to the same relevance to political discourse as the Tea-Tantrum crowd if we take it too far. Once we get a "D" in office, by all means, push them toward the left as much as possible. But we have to get elected in order to govern. If those we elect, don't govern as we want, then we seek out those who will. That's the bittersweet joy of democracy.

[Whisp]

16. sometimes you really have to take what you can get

and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think McAul is a sleaze and have little respect for him, but he is about 5000 times better than his opponent and because of his win thousands and thousands more will be elligible for help from the ACA. If he changes that rule.

[tblue37]

8. Wow! How many people are there in your family?! nt

[PunkinPi]

10. Two more headed out to the polls shortly!!

[Mr Dixon]

12. Great Job

2 from my house, go Dem's, we saw some cooch rallies Saturday pretty sad.

[virgdem]

13. 2 more at my house....

in ruby red Virginia Beach, where I'm surrounded by Cooch supporters (not an easy thing to deal with on a daily basis).

[FSogol]

19. 3 from my house. n/t