It is hard to imagine that what was once a hotbed of eight Democrats living within spittin' distance of one another is now reduced to just three of us. Even so, it seems that there are more Democratic campaign signs on Browntown Road than I remember seeing before.
It's a shame that the Virginia gubernatorial campaign has become the national model for "nasty campaigns" with ugly, explotative, negative ads by Kilgore and pathetic attempts to talk out of two sides of his mouth and commit to nothing ads by Kaine. Oh well. I guess it could be worse - could be George Allen popping up on television every hour or so - AAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!
How is it down your way Win? People getting sick of the ugliness down there too? We sure are hearing a lot talk about how Kilgore is coming off looking really bad and the poll numbers are starting to reflect that - good! Finally negative ads get what they deserve - drop in the polls - hope it all shakes out that way at the polls. If nothing else maybe political campaigns will realize negative ads are just that - negative - as in not good for winning.
8 years ago
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Well, it's not something I've talked to a lot of people about, but Kilgore is from Gate City, so he's the local favorite son. There's one Tim Kaine sign on my street, but I think the area generally skews conservative. The interesting thing though is the artisan community in Abingdon, I'm sure there's a liberal base there, but probably not enough to counteract the conservative establishment. There is one loony guy online who hates Kilgore, I've just started looking at his site: http://www.sullivan-county.com/id5/
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