GAME TIME for Wayne Powell (to defeat eric cantor!)

[elleng]

I will be brief - tomorrow is the biggest day yet in our campaign to defeat Eric Cantor and our most urgent deadline yet. We need to have all the money in the bank by close of business to fund our most robust Get-Out-the-Vote operation Virginia has ever seen.

Please help us - a little bit can go a long way to helping us have the urgent resources we need before this weekend's kick off tomorrow.

So many of you have already given, thank you but we need to have no regrets the day after the Election. That means Wayne needs your urgent support now. Please contribute now.

On to Victory,

Christian Rickers
Campaign Manager
Wayne Powell for Congress

P.S. If you have not seen our new ad with Madeleine Stowe - it's amazing, check it out now and contribute to keep it up on the air through Election Day. This is how we win - expose Cantor's record. Contribute now.

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http://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.aspx?X=nnH5UqlGXVdFqwQYSNfMTv5XA6vMNUWV

[TheBluestEye]

1. What are the polls looking like for this race? n/m

[elleng]

4. Powell campaign not spending funds on polling but:

Culpeper County Democratic Committee Canvassing results from Wayne Powell's campaign: twice as many respondents say they are voting for Powell as for Cantor. If that translates to actual votes, we'll have a winning candidate! The sample includes moderate voters from both parties plus independents.

'Cantor’s own campaign admits Powell is the congressman’s most serious opponent since he took on Dukes of Hazzard star, Ben “Cooter” Jones, back in 2002. Cantor won by a big margin, but his numbers have slipped in the decade since, giving Powell hope that he can unseat the Majority Leader.

A look at Henrico County, the district’s largest and home to the Richmond suburbs, bears that out. In 2002, Cantor won Henrico by 46 points. In 2006, he won it by just 27 points. (Democrats didn’t run a candidate in 2004 and Cantor beat Independent, W. Brad Blanton, by a 3-to-1 margin.) In 2008, the margin in Henrico slipped to 22 points and by 2010, it was just 19.

It mirrors Cantor’s shrinking margin of victory across Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District. He won re-election in 2002 by 39 points, then saw the gap narrow to 30 points in ’06, 26 points in ’08 and 25 points in 2010. It was a solid margin, to be sure, but half of what it once was.

Wayne Powell still has an uphill climb in his campaign to win the Virginia seat, but the numbers show that the odds of him pulling it off aren’t nearly as long as they once were. Dave “Mudcat” Saunders is a longtime political strategist who helped Jim Webb and Mark Warner win in Virginia. He’s working for Powell now and Monday on The Daily Rundown, Mudcat said that Virginia is the tale of two states. He says in the northern part of the state, it’s “hard to find a Republican with a search warrant,” but even so, the national Democratic party writes off Virginia. Mudcat says the Democrats need to come to Virginia with a message that gives more credit and respect to the Old Dominion’s culture.'

http://www.powellforva.com/news/58-cantor-counter-taking-on-the-house-majority-leader

[jsmirman]

2. Just gave again - good luck!

[elleng]

3. GREAT and THANKS AGAIN!

[beac]

5. I would love to see that ad.

I did find this great "How many steaks can you eat, Eric?" clip from her appearance for Powell at a rally:

Nice to see her using her star status to help us try and rid the Congress of that Cantor Cancer!

[elleng]

6. Top of the page:

http://www.powellforva.com/

[jsmirman]

7. It's a great one - worth checking out!