The spotlight turns to Virgil Goode
Virgil Goode
We’ve written several times about Virgil Goode, his bid for president and what kind of effect he’d have on the race in Virginia and perhaps nationally.
But a number of national outlets jumped on the Virgil Goode story today:
– The Associated Press (this story is on the Roanoke Times website but it’s AP-written)
– Time’s Swampland political site (in a story that included a trip with Goode to Farmville)
– Fox News (another version of the AP story that also includes more discussion of Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s candidate)
What do you think? What percentage of the vote will Goode win in Virginia, and will it be enough to throw the election to eitehr of the major-party candidates?
August 1, 2012 - 2:35 PM
I predict Virgil Goode will win less than 300 votes in Virgina. I feel I am being generous.
Coming back from NC last month I was driving on a byway and did a double take when I saw the one and only ‘Goode for President’ yard sign I’ve seen so far staked on the side of the road.
Why would Goode waste time and money on something he has zero chance of winning? What a joke.
The hick of hicks is sure to appeal to a certain proportion of the tea partiers in Va. He’ll get a few thousand. And the more he gets, the fewer Rmoney gets. Go Virg!
Can’t wait for the debates.
Moderator: “Mr. Goode, what is your position on tax increases for the top 2%?”
Virgil: “Walll, fawl mawll chunga cheww mally wowll figgupp!”
Moderator: “What’d he say?”
I think he will get around 2500 votes. There are people from his area that LOVE him b/c he is an attraction. Always been around, like the general store or something.
@3 @4- Bet you wouldn’t be saying those things if he was black.
6 – yes, this kind of bigotry is alive and well on the left, as long as it’s directed at the right people.
No, no, no #6 and #7… it’s not bigotry in this day and time unless there was something that happened 151 years ago or so that was really unfair.
Therefore the lefties can make fun of an American with a job all they want.
“Bet you wouldn’t be saying those things if he was black.”
Virgil was born in Kenya? Where’s the birth certificate!!
He can’t talk. How is that bigotry? He opens his mouth and sounds like he has an entire pack of Skoal tucked under his tongue.
That being said…I wish Mr. Goode much success in the state of Virginia. He might be just what the state needs.
#8 Yeah, MMM, that’s why folks make fun of Goode, because he has a job.
Getting tired of making up lies yet?
#10 Of course it isn’t bigotry, Kristen. Goode knows he talks funny and would acknowledge that. Hey, he also collects comic books (or at least he used to). I talked to him for a couple of minutes recently when he cruised by our block sale.
So insulting someone by calling them a hick, is just hunky dory in liberal land. As long as the target of ridicule is conservative and white, these kinds of personal attacks and insults are A-OK.
Hell, even females are fair game as long as they’re conservative (just ask Sarah Palin).
“I wish Mr. Goode much success in the state of Virginia.”
As do I. About time we had a Republican spoiler.
It’s about time you started hoping and praying for spoilers and anvils to fall down from the heavens. Your guy is in a flat spin and it will take nothing short of miracle to pull him out of it. Getting the job was half the battle for Obama, he just wasn’t able to do the job. Now it’s time for the smoke and mirrors to try and eek him into a second term. Not going to happen.
#14 Actually, TOR, Goode would almost certainly wear “hick” as badge of honor, although, as I said, I don;t think of him as one. A little weird? Yes. But not a hick.
And you can cut the faux outrage. Calling somebody a hick is nothing like calling somebody the “n” word.
LMAO JohnBrown…Obama has never once not led Rmoney. I guess that could be called a “flat spin”. It could also be called…WINNING!!!
@Kristen, You need to watch a little more closely sweetheart, Romney is up by 5 points in the latest Rasmussen presidential poll.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
JohnBrown, the only “poll” worth looking at online is RCP’s aggregate and on that one Obama has never not led. Even with the nonsense from Rasmussen in the mix it can’t pull Rmoney ahead.
“Forty-seven percent of registered voters nationwide who lean towards a candidate back Romney, while 46 percent support the president. Four percent are undecided. The 1 percentage point difference is within the survey’s three-point margin of error.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57475178-503544/obama-romney-in-dead-heat-in-presidential-race/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Burn.
@Kristen – Rasmussen predicted the Obama/Mccain race within 1 point and the Bush/Kerry race within half a point. I hope you and the rest of the Obama folks ignore this poll and are dumbfounded on election night.
So what? Pew Research has Obama +10.
Overall he’s up 2.7, which is down from yesterday’s 2.8. But at no point has he not led Rmoney. It also has Obama crushing Rmoney in the “battleground states”.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/
It’s not shaping up to even be close.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
Obama 247 Rmoney 191
That’s the real picture.
@22
Yes rasmussen is extremely accurate in presidential races.
Disregarding a respected accurate polling agency that has been within 1 point on the last two elections? Ha sounds about right for the Obama crowd.
Disregarding any poll this far out is a relatively safe bet. I watch Nate Silver.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
And Rasmussen has tarnished their own brand. No one else did it.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/
NY Times? Talk about a bias tarnished brand. They’re about as respectable as the supermarket tabloids. Rasmussen had the last two presidential elections within a point. You can’t really argue with that. Well you can, but it would just be logic defying liberal spin that hurts your credibility.
Rasmussen beat Nate Silver? Not hardly!! The NYT is a sum of its parts and Nate Silver is a gem.
Do you want other sources for how Rasmussen is viewed?
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/75161/the-rasmussen-problem
“But the more problematic dynamic is Rasmussen’s symbiotic relationship with the conservative base. The habitual practice by conservative pundits of quoting only Rasmussen polling reinforces conservatives’ overweening certainty that they embody public opinion.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/do-rasmussen-polls-lean-right-nate-silver-sorta-defends/
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/30/independent-pollster-scott-rasmussen-headlines/186270
“On his website and during interviews, Scott Rasmussen portrays himself as an “independent pollster” who doesn’t have a stake in the fortunes of either political party. Yet Rasmussen, who has been criticized for producing polling that favors conservatives, recently headlined two Republican fundraisers.“
Rasmussen got it right at the end in 2008. But on 8/1 they had McCain up by 1. On 8/27 they had Mccain up 1. On 9/14 they had Mccain up by 3. On 9?27 they had the race even. As late as 10/27 they had Obama up by only 3.
So the point is, today’s poll has nothing to do with what the polls will be saying on 10/31 or 11/1. By mid October in 2008 all the reputable polls had Obama ahead from 5 to 8 points with a margin of error of around 3. So come back and tell us what the polls say in mid to late October. That will have some meaning. Today’s numbers mean jack.