An interesting gubernatorial contest is building in Virginia between VA Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli and former DNC Chairman, Terry McAuliffe. Cuccinelli has been an outspoken opponent of Obamacare and has joined numerous other State Attorneys General in filing court cases to deconstruct the Obama disaster.
McAuliffe has been the prototypical liberal progressive ideologically driven Democrat operative looking for another platform in the political limelight since leaving the DNC some four years ago.
Terry McAuliffe has spent four years rallying Virginia Democrats around his latest gubernatorial bid, but a new poll shows he still faces an uphill climb with voters who don't know him or who think his Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, is better prepared to be governor...
Considering that McAuliffe ran and lost the gubernatorial race four years ago, you might think he has some better name recognition numbers than he does. Then again maybe Virginia voters would just as soon forget McAuliffe and his liberal progressive politics.
In the first poll done since Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced that he would not enter the race as an independent, Quinnipiac University found that Cuccinelli and McAuliffe remain in a statistical tie, with Cuccinelli getting 40 percent to McAuliffe's 38 percent.
But the poll released Wednesday also shows that Cuccinelli holds a distinct advantage over McAuliffe in name recognition, and his work as a state senator and as the state's top lawyer has 44 percent of voters believing that Cuccinelli has the experience to be governor. And while McAuliffe is already portraying Cuccinelli as a Tea Party extremist, only 29 percent of voters think the Republican is too conservative...
McAuliffe has a deep ideological foundation in liberal progressive politics. If the economy turns south in the second half of 2013, as I believe it will, McAullife's polling numbers will turn south in parallel with a downturn in the economy just in time for the November 5, 2013, gubernatorial election, which will most certainly benefit Ken Cuccinelli and result in a Republican victory. A Republican victory in this important gubernatorial contest could be a harbinger of things to come in the 2014 congressional elections.
Read cited article in its entirety at the Washington Examiner
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