I hope as many East Coast Du'ers as can go to Virginia this weekend.

[Ken Burch]

McAuliffe is losing his lead over that knuckle-dragging whackjob Cuccinelli , and without a massive grass-roots effort, he could actually lose this election. Whatever you think of McAuliffe, a Cuccinelli comeback win would be a massive morale bomb for Dems and progressives.

It's going to be up to the activists to end McAuliffe's perfect record in election campaigns and actually make sure that scumbag Cuccinelli gets the defeat he deserves.

If I could get there myself, I'd be on the next flight.

Please help.

It will be a huge black eye on the party if we let McAuliffe, the guy who lost us both houses of Congress in 1994, blow an election he has no excuse for losing.

This is going to be more important than anything else this weekend, people.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. Losing his lead? You expect a 12 percent lead to evaporate

In less than a week?

[Ken Burch]

2. The new polls say it's more like 2 to 4 points.

Trust me, this one is NOT in the bag, and a lot of grassroots work needs to be done. Coasting in means losing.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. As of Oct 30, Reuters reported 15 point lead

And other mainstream one said 7 or 8 points. Googling, only RW'er sites like Newsmax report 2 to 4 point gap.

Doesn't mean they should coast, but that's why Clinton and Obama are campaigning for McAuliffe.

[Mass]

7. One poll. Most of them give him a lead of 7 or 8. One poll shows him ahead by 4.

This does not mean we need to be complacent, but we have to stop panicking. When a candidate has been consistently ahead for month, it is a significant event, whatever the media want to tell us.

[octoberlib]

4. Quinnipiac shows a 4 point lead.

A Quinnipiac University poll finds McAuliffe (D) up by four percentage points among likely voters over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R). The survey depicts a far closer race than a Washington Post/Abt-SRBI poll released Monday, which found McAuliffe with a 12 percentage-point lead over Cuccinelli among likely voters. McAuliffe’s lead was his widest yet across three Post polls this year, while his four-point edge in the Quinnipiac poll is near his slimmest advantage in the firm’s four likely-voter surveys.



The chief difference between the surveys was the share of likely voters that identified themselves as Democrats, Republicans and independents, attitudes that both polls measured by asking an identical question.

In the Post poll, self-identified Democrats outnumbered Republicans 35 percent to 27 percent among likely voters, while Quinnipiac found Republicans with a two-point edge in party identification, 31 percent to 29 percent. Previous Quinnipiac polls this fall have found Democrats with a five- to eight-point edge on identification among likely voters; a September Post poll found Democrats with a seven-point edge.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/new-quinnipiac-survey-shows-narrower-lead-for-mcauliffe-in-va-governors-race/2013/10/30/fd2a5ca0-4169-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_story.html

[JI7]

5. why do people from outside the state need to go there ?

[Ken Burch]

8. Because it's important to all of us to see Cuccinelli beaten.

If he wins, the Tea Party and the Religious Right will use it to help revive themselves, at a time when they are both on the decline nationally.

And it will start a "The Dems are losing momentum" narrative in the MSM(they've been looking desperately for something like that).

[Mass]

11. He will lose and sending people from out of state will not help anymore than it helped in MA.

[seveneyes]

6. Who's idea was it to run him?

And what were they thinking? The party is far from desperate enough to need someone like him for such a major seat.

[Ken Burch]

9. I think, at the time, most Dems saw the contest as hopeless.

McAuliffe was seen as the designated loser(which was reasonable, given his track record).

[Mass]

10. I do not like him, but he is winning. Hand wringing is not helpful.

We had the same problem with Booker and Markey. Guess what. They both won handily.

[JI7]

12. he ran himself and nobody else got in the race, and he has been doing well and speaking of liberal

issues.

[seveneyes]

13. Perhaps, but the GOP dimwit is a real loser

I was thinking any good, honest, liberal leaning Democrat would have been an easy win.

[JI7]

14. nobody else even got into the race in the primary

[Stinky The Clown]

15. What to take from a McAuliffe win: The GOP is sooooo fucked when they lose to the likes of him.

And McAuliffe **will** win.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Quite frankly, I have my own election to worry about...

on Tuesday.

I doubt I could do much in Virginia anyway.

[Ken Burch]

18. OK. Fair enough in your case.

Remind me: what are you running for, again? Good luck, obviously.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Thanks. It's Town Trustee...

a unique office for Long Island towns that goes back to Colonial times and is kinda like a zoning board for the beach.

[Ken Burch]

21. Well...how did it go?

Hope you got in...if you didn't, well, keep fighting, and thanks for the effort.

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Lost-- along with almost the entire Democratic line.

[brooklynite]

17. Stop fixating on each new poll!

There are going to be lts of them, and they're going to be different. Look at the TREND line. Cuccinelli has basically been flat since the campaign began, and hasn't gotten over 40% in more than two polls.

[HipChick]

19. I am voting Tuesday, and going to the President Obama event tomorrow too..