The recent virginia gov election, although won by the dem, shows some disturbing indicators for the democratic party.
Mcauliffe was consistently up by double digits in polls and was expected to 'win easily' by 10-12 points. His conservative opponent was said to symbolize the recent so called disasters of the tea party and republicans in general, who are supposed to be on the verge of extinction and irrelevency according to the media. Virgina has also been trending left in recent major elections. Lastly, mcauliffe outspent his opponent 10-1, having collected massive sums from out of state donors including Bloomberg, and had rallies held for him by no less than bill and hillary clinton, and president obama.
Yet despite all these factors, on election night he ended up trailing most of the evening, before catching up and winning by barely 2 points. Incredibly, the libertarian 3rd party candidate who was funded by a major obama donor in order to bleed votes from cuccineli, had his name on the ballot and got 7% of the vote, votes which otherwise would have given cuccinelli the win.
What we see here is the dem party going all out with fundraising, endorsements, efforts, and massively outspending the opponent, including funding and getting the name on the ballot of a 3rd party candidate, I mean totally blew their load on this election, and STILL just barely squeaked past someone considered a weak candidate from a dying party on the verge of irrelevency. Pretty telling if you ask me. Oh and lastly, fuck the democrats
