How did Ken Cuccinelli Lose by only 2.5 Points?

[WinstonSmith4740]

2. My thoughts exactly.

I was getting REAL nervous watching the returns Tuesday evening. He had a pretty sizable lead with something like 70% of the votes counted, and the media was still saying "too close to call". I thought that was more than a little weird since we've all seen elections called with 5-10% of the votes in. Polls always reflect the electorate...lots of people may have said they were going to vote for McAuliffe, but never got to the polls. Others were probably completely unaware until they got there that Cuccinelli had them thrown off the voter rolls. Like I said, I was real concerned about his voter suppression tactics. It amazed me when I saw that women were voting for this looney tune. Married women voted for him in pretty big numbers...it was the single women that carried the day.

But I'll tell ya what...the Democrats better not sit on their hands until 2014/2016. These assholes are only going to ratchet up the voter suppression machinery because of the closeness of this vote. They'll just keep making it tougher and tougher for anyone besides old white men to vote. You can bet they're in their back rooms right now planning on who they have to target next.