Romney Crushed (by Gary Johnson) in Poll by Top Virginia Conservative Blog

by: lowkell

Sat Sep 22, 2012 at 13:55:27 PM EDT

Sure, Republicans and Tea Partiers are enthused about NOT voting for the socialist/Kenyan/Muslim/blahblahblah Obama, but they are not - based on many scientific polls and anecdotal information, including this Bearing Drift internet poll - in the least excited about the father of "Romneycare," the guy who just a few years ago was a fairly progressive governor of Massachusetts - pushing for clean energy and action on anthropogenic global warming, saying that coal plants "kill people," significantly raised "revenues" (aka, "taxes"), stated that "All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual orientation," signed a permanent state ban on assault weapons (saying "Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."), was pro-choice (said "as governor of the commonwealth, I will protect a woman's right to choose under the laws of the country and the commonwealth. That's the same position I've had for many years"), strongly supported embryonic stem cell research, etc, etc. Go figure.

By the way, imagine if our poll on who you'll be voting for on November 6th had Barack Obama in second place? Fortunately, we don't have that problem; as you can see, our poll has Obama with 88% of the vote, compared to 6% for Willard, 3% for Gary Johnson, and 1% each for Virgil Goode and Jill Stein. Obviously, Obama's not going win 88% of the vote in Virginia, but Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight model DOES have Obama with a 72.1% chance of winning Virginia, and  a 76.9% chance of winning the election (note: it's 95.4% in the "now cast," which is different than the official Nov. 6 forecast by Nate Silver). I'll take it!