Rachel Maddow - Razor thin margin in VA attorney general race

[Galraedia]

[marble falls]

1. The country is extremely divided. Unless the fact that voter turnout is never much higher than ....

30% in the most heated of elections - 30%+/- of the country is extremely divided. If we were truly divided as a nation, voter turn out would still be .007% margin, but the numbers of voting would be at closer to 50% at least, right? Why do people not vote, when not voting works most of the time against them. How do we overcome this sense of defeat/cynicism?

Election polls are becoming marketing polls.

[Gothmog]

2. I am worried about the nuclear option

If the Tea Party candidate appeals this election to the state legislature, then the GOP members of the VA legis can ignore the election and elect the teabagger.

[FBaggins]

3. I'm not

The blowback on republicans would be more useful than the AG slot.

[Gothmog]

4. You are assuming that the GOP cares about blowback

The GOP seems to incapable of feeling shame and so I am not sure that they are worried about the blow back. I am hoping that people discussing this possibility will raise enough public awareness that the sane members of the VA GOP caucus will not risk the blow back

[FBaggins]

5. Not at all

I'm not saying that they won't do it because they're worried about blowback... I'm saying that if they DO do it, I won't be that upset because I prefer the blowback. In the extreme it could even win back the legislature for us (and I care more about that than the AG slot).