Outside groups have spent $1.5 million on the Congressional race in the 10th district and only $35,000 in the state for Presidential campaign. Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University said,
“Outside groups seek the biggest bang for the buck, and in Virginia that means putting their money into the most competitive House race — the 10th District,â€
“The widespread perception is that Virginia is blue at the presidential level this year, and the polls back that up. So why waste money on what appears to be a one-sided contest in the state?â€
I hate it that Virginia has turned blue but that appears to be the case based on average of polls. Â
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (R-10) is seeking her second term in office. Â She is running against Lu Ann Bennet, a realtor with a business in Washington DC, and the ex-wife of former Democrat Congressman Jim Moran. Â The 10th district stretches from McLean through Great Falls, all of Loudoun county, and all the way west to the West Virginia line.
Outside groups have spent $1.19 million on television ads against Bennett, including a million from the National Republican Congressional Committee. Â Groups have spent $332,377 against Comstock. Â Pro Comstock groups have spent $23,136 and pro Bennet people have spent $12,109.
On Friday Barbara Comstock said Trump should drop out of the race when the vile Tump tape from 2005 surfaced. Â Comstock said,
“This is disgusting, vile, and disqualifying. No woman should ever be subjected to this type of obscene behavior and it is unbecoming of anybody seeking high office. In light of these comments, Donald Trump should step aside and allow our party to replace him with Mike Pence or another appropriate nominee from the Republican Party. I cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump and I would never vote for Hillary Clinton.â€
Since then some Republicans in the district are upset with Barbara for her refusal to support the top of the ticket. Â Some of them will vote for Trump and skip the Congressional race. Â Will there be enough of those Republicans to cost Comstock the election? Â No, it won’t. Â Barbara Comstock will be re-elected.
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I can say this because I am no beauty queen, that woman is what they call Democrat Ugly. She is in the wrong party.
What eats chameleons, the masters of camouflage, in the wild? Probably never wondered or cared, right. These swift footed lizards best known for changing colors and blending into backgrounds are after all low on the food chain and have developed several mechanisms to hide away and remain lost to view. So why isn’t the world over run with chameleons?
One of the major sources of chameleon control are birds of prey. Yes, that is right, eagles and hunting vultures consume them in large quantities in the wild and in your back yard they run in dread from that born killer the domestic house cat. So do you get rid of the human variety of this adaptation by opposing it with a gerbil or the families’ domestic lap loving Shih Shu? No you need something with a killer instinct that seems in short supply in the local Democratic candidate corral.
She will win re-election primarily out of 10th District Republican “voter motor reflex” but with a much narrower margin then when she initially ran and with little enthusiasm or embedded voter support and her repeated opposition to the Republican presidential candidate opposing Hillary Clinton may well be the beginning of the end to her weak grasp on the 10th. When the Democrats wise up and start opposing her with eagles rather then place fillers or better yet the local voters convince a young tough political fighter to oppose her no primary will save her regardless of her ability to rapidly camouflage on demand.
If your Republican support is leaching away in your base district talk of running for state wide election is a pipe dream. Proposing a candidate like Comstock for a party senatorial slot with the implicit premise that she will attract Democratic voters just clearly shows to me how debased some in the parties’ establishment thinking has become and how desperate. Besides after months of listening to individuals and contributors on this blog claim that a significant portion of Trump’s Virginia support is from the Democrats why would she then, as a key Virginia NeverTrumper, suddenly appeal to these very individuals after her vocal opposition? Even when you push figments of your imagination it’s best to at least try to keep your stories marginally consistent and logical.
If the Virginia Republican party can’t push Donald Trump through for a state win no matter how distasteful some may find him why would anyone believe for a second that a state candidate with Comstock’s baggage will allow her to go anywhere. It sometimes appears the state party is just going through the motions rather then reading the voter pulse and driving the correct candidate to a potential win. Not a healthy sign.
If the Internationalist Crime Syndicate wins, Americans will deserve continued declining standards of living, de facto international citizenship, and a loss of meaningful sovereignty.
Barbara! Ain’t she smiling peach of a thing!
I hear her kids think she’s swell! And Luanne built a parking lot.
Comstock needs to run-up the winning % numbers in the 10th CD to convince the NRSC, RNC, and RPV to clear the field for her to run for Kaine’s Senate seat next year. It’s the “If I can win this big in a purple district, then I can win a purple state” argument.
Other than the fact that Virginia has turned blue in a Prez election year, Comstock also has a Trump numbers problem. Comstock won the 10th CD by about 36,000 votes in 2014. About 35,000 people voted for Trump in the 10th CD during the March 1st primary. Her anti-Trump posturing before and ever since the primary hasn’t helped reconcile those two numbers.
Obviously, not all of those 35,000 Trump voters will vote against Comstock, but she runs a very serious risk of being denied the big % win she needs to clear the GOP field for Senate (or Governor) in 2017.
Clearly she didn’t appreciate that Mr. Hill allowed her the nomination to save taxpayer monies — he will not be so generous in the Senate Shakoff!
As much as I despise Trump’s comments, I refuse to follow my generation’s trend of getting our political views from friends’ biased liberal Facebook posts, so I will still vote for him over Clinton.
I will also vote for Comstock, because I see no value in being represented by Bennett. I want to see more leadership from Comstock though in the future. For example, did she reach out to Trump directly back in the summer and express her concerns more forcefully, or did she just only talk about her concerns to the Washington Post.
Trump people will elect Barbara, she will pretend they didn’t.
I hope that is not the case. I will be disappointed if it is.
Welcome to the 10th district!
We’re the fun bunch!
Meanwhile, there’s this:
Donald Trump’s campaign is “pulling out of Virginia,” a move that
stunned staff in the battleground state, three sources with knowledge of
the decision told NBC News.
The decision came from Trump’s headquarters in New York and was
announced on a conference call late Wednesday that left some Republican
Party operatives in the state blindsided. Two staffers directly involved
in the GOP’s efforts in Virginia confirmed the decision.
The move to pull out of Virginia shows Trump is “running essentially
a four state campaign,” with the focus now shifting to battlegrounds
critical to his chances in November: Pennsylvania, Florida, North
Carolina, and Ohio, a source with knowledge of the decision told NBC
News.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-s-campaign-pulling-out-virginia-n665541
Can I get your perspective on Hillary’s statement concerning how she wants a borderless world? As expressed to a group of Brazilian bankers… not sure how much she got paid for this nugget of wisdom. Was it 250,000 or did she give them a discount? Never mind…
Are you too bloody stupid to understand that a borderless US, which we essentially have now after W Bush and Obama, means that US taxpayers have to foot the bill for the poverty of the world. Spare me the We are a Nation of Immigrants crap.. We are now a nation of debt with economic growth rates and an employment structure that cannot provide jobs for the world. We provide crap service jobs that have to be subsidized by the US Treasury in the form of WIC, Section 8 housing (where Obama’s Auntie lived and she should not have because she was illegal) a myriad of payments to asylees via Social Security, etc etc. Not to mention the cost to taxpayers to educate the influx of third world children and this at the local level. See Fairfax County VA, site of Obama’s million child march back to baby momma living in Arlington.
So… how is the US going to pay for the surging immigration and Hillary’s borderless world? I nominate you to be taxed at 70 percent.
Because they don’t think about consequences, they think about the warm fuzzies they get from helping the less fortunate (with other people’s money) and the votes and power from yet another ghetto/plantation.
“Eventually you run out of other people’s money”.
Bad news for the democrat party, means Virginia is Trump and on to the next competitive state.
I find it extremely difficult to believe Trump is pulling out, once Trump is in he stays in and there is nothing you can say or do to make him stop.
Corey said ‘I got it from here’ and freed up troops for other battles.
No, I would guess Trump supporters didn’t support him with anything but talk.
It takes $$$$$$$$
I don’t think that’s an issue.
In a choice between money and volunteers, I will always take volunteers.
Barbara seems to be blanketing the district with people but I don’t know if they are paid or volunteers. It doesn’t really matter if they knock on doors for her.
The best volunteers money can buy.
Making too many enemies.
She originally ran as a conservative but has not seen any Obama proposals she did not like. Bennet’s a crooked Dem and not the most acute candidate but their voting records may be similar in Congress. Of course, it would eventually impose different part Speaker and Committee Chair if all the RINOs failed.
It is time to start voting D to get rid of the RINO’s and GOPE’s, because all three are one in the same. Comstock is like so many others that used and rode in on the Tea Party/Conservative coattails. The whole thing was a sham nationwide. These people need to be shut down, otherwise you never get rid of them, they are like fleas, roaches, and mice, they carry disease every where they go and in everything they do.
Acute candidate? Just look at Sheila Jackson Lee and Hank Guam Turnover Johnson, now those two are some acute candidates. If Comstock loses to Bennet, which I hope, at least you know Bennet is an honest crook by nature, unlike Comstock that is a deceitful crook.