S*******i
发帖数: 2018 | 1 http://www.wsj.com/articles/smearing-ed-gillespie-in-virginia-1508539327
Looks like it’s panic time for Democrats in Virginia. Naturally they are
responding by playing the race card against Ed Gillespie, the Republican
candidate for Governor.
Mr. Gillespie’s rival, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, enjoys a two-to-one cash
advantage, and for most of the race he has also enjoyed a comfortable margin
in the polls. That changed in the past week, with one new poll showing Mr.
Gillespie within the margin of error and another putting him ahead by a
point. Some stories report Mr. Northam’s internal polling shows Mr.
Gillespie within striking distance.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. With Donald Trump loathed by 96% of
Northam voters, the Democratic calculation has been that in an off-year all
the party needed for victory was to tie Mr. Gillespie to Mr. Trump and make
the campaign about the President.
But Mr. Gillespie avoided that trap and stressed state and local issues,
since he’s running for a state job. The former head of the national GOP has
hit Mr. Northam hard on the economy and proposed a 10% across the board tax
cut. He’s also been running ads that focus on MS-13, a Central American
gang whose members savagely murdered a 15-year-old girl in January in a
Fairfax County park—and have been linked to other Virginia murders. The
accusation is that Mr. Northam is soft on crime, having cast the deciding
vote against a state bill that would have banned sanctuary cities.
Mr. Northam says he’s voted for tough prison sentences for gang members and
accuses Mr. Gillespie of promoting “hatred and bigotry.” On Thursday
Barack Obama campaigned for Mr. Northam, saying that “our democracy is at
stake” in Virginia and that Mr. Gillespie is stoking fears in a way he
called “damaging and corrosive.” For his part Mr. Gillespie says that his
opponents are insulting law-abiding Latino immigrants by making no
distinction between them and violent gang members.
Our guess is that what’s really freaking out Democrats is the increasingly
real prospect of a GOP upset in the only southern state carried by Hillary
Clinton last November. They know that three years ago Mr. Gillespie came
within a whisker of defeating Sen. Mark Warner even as the national GOP
failed to provide last-minute money.
Democrats have held the Virginia state house for four years—the current
Governor is term-limited—which is an exception to the GOP dominance in
state elections around the country in recent years. If Mr. Gillespie pulls
this one out, the message will be that candidate quality matters and, even
in a state trending left, Democrats need to stand for something more than
opposition to Donald Trump. | C*******h
发帖数: 6095 | 2 黑驴一现身助选右派朋友们就不用加油了，黑驴已经帮着加了，哈哈
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: http://www.wsj.com/articles/smearing-ed-gillespie-in-virginia-1508539327
: Looks like it’s panic time for Democrats in Virginia. Naturally they are
: responding by playing the race card against Ed Gillespie, the Republican
: candidate for Governor.
: Mr. Gillespie’s rival, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, enjoys a two-to-one cash
: advantage, and for most of the race he has also enjoyed a comfortable margin
: in the polls. That changed in the past week, with one new poll showing Mr.
: Gillespie within the margin of error and another putting him ahead by a
: point. Some stories report Mr. Northam’s internal polling shows Mr.
: Gillespie within striking distance.
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发帖数: 5274 | | u**r
发帖数: 810 | 4 vote!!!
d party is raping law abiding citizens particularly asian, vote them out!
【在 i**********k 的大作中提到】
: 都要去投票啊。
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