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VA Gov: Cuccinelli Makes Clear Case Against McAuliffe

On Saturday, VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli formally accepted the GOP nomination for Governor at the party convention in Richmond. Cuccinelli will face Democrat fundraiser Terry McAuliffe in the November election, the premier political contest of 2013. Show More Summary

Poll Shows Cuccinelli Ahead in Virginia

A new Wenzel Strategies (R) poll in Virginia finds Ken Cuccinelli (R) leading Terry McAuliffe (D) by eight points, 44% to 36%. A Quinnipiac poll released earlier this week gave McAuliffe a five point lead.

Planned Parenthood to protest Virginia GOP convention as party nominates Ken Cuccinelli for governor

by Kirsten Andersen RICHMOND, VA, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Virginia Republican Convention will have some unusual guests Saturday: Planned Parenthood. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund will hold a pro-abortion rally at the state Republican Party convention in Richmond on Saturday, the day Cuccinelli is…

VA Gov: Terry McAuliffe Has Small Lead Over Ken Cuccinelli

While the Virginia gubernatorial remains close, new polling shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe with an edge over Republican LT Gov. Ken Cuccinelli.

McAuliffe Inches Ahead in Virginia

A new Qunnipiac poll in Virginia finds Terry McAuliffe (D) leading Ken Cuccinelli (R) in the race for governor by five points, 43% to 38%. Said pollster Peter Brown: "The governor's race remains tight and could well go all the way to November as a close contest. Show More Summary

Terry McAuliffe Opens Slight Lead on Cuccinelli

THE WAR on women could not have a better example than the Virginia governors race between Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli. Quinnipiac’s latest polling shows McAuliffe up 5 points in a race where neither man is seen to have a clear advantage. McAuliffe is as connected a Democratic elite politician can get, tied closely to [...]Show More Summary

Democrat McAuliffe up in Va. governor's race

(CNN) – Six months before Virginia voters choose a new governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a slight advantage over his Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli, a poll released Thursday showed. McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and major party fundraiser, had the support of 43% of registered voters in the Quinnipiac University survey, […]

Terrymentum?

A new Quinnipiac poll shows longtime political fixer Terry McAuliffe (D) with a 5 point lead over Ken Cuccinelli (R). The PollTracker Average now gives McAuliffe a microscopic.6 advantage in the race....

Don't Let Wannabe-Governor Ken Cuccinelli Photobomb Your Uterus

Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate and current attorney general Ken Cuccinelli loooves telling women how to take care of their bodies; it's as if he wishes he could be with us at the doctor's office and in the bedroom 24/7. Now you can show your friends what life would be like if Ken Cuccinelli was really everywhere by inserting him into your photos. Read more...

Give Cuccinelli his due

I’ve been tough on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s gubernatorial campaign, primarily because it has been contentless. In the absence of any positive image he leaves himself open to attacks that he is ideological extreme. But he’s kept challenger Terry McAuliffe … Continue reading ?

VIDEO: The Week Ahead: Immigration, Syria, Cuccinelli officially nominated

NBC's Domenico Montanaro looks at the week ahead in politics. The focus on Capitol Hill continues to be immigration, President Obama will be pushed on Syria by Turkey, and Ken Cuccinelli to be officially nominated as the Republican candidate to be the next governor of Virginia.& …

Does Terry McAuliffe Stand a Chance?

mou-ikkai/Flickr I argued yesterday that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli—the Virginia GOP’s right-wing nominee for governor—is likely to win the state’s gubernatorial election, for reasons of turnout. Barring a strong mobilization effort...Show More Summary

Poll shows close race for Virginia governor

(CNN) – With less than six months before Election Day in Virginia's gubernatorial race, a new poll indicates the race is still tight. Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a slight 43%-41% advantage over Republican Ken Cuccinelli among registered voters, according to a new NBC/Marist poll released Wednesday. When looking at likely voters, however, the race flips [...]

McAuliffe's Woman Problem

Jill Lawrence says Terry McAuliffe (D) has a potential problem with women voters even though he's running against anti-abortion candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R) for Virginia governor.Passages in McAuliffe's book include him "ditching his...Show More Summary

Cuccinelli Holds Slight Lead in Virginia

A new NBC News/Marist poll in Virginia finds Ken Cuccinelli (R) leading Terry McAuliffe (D) in the race for governor among likely voters, 45% to 42%.Among all voters, McAuliffe holds a small lead, 43% to 41%.

Cuccinelli takes page from Romney playbook with new tax plan

Ken Cuccinelli, Republicans’ candidate for governor in Virginia, unveiled a major new tax plan on Tuesday, and it very much resembles proposals by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans from over the past year. Cuccinelli debuted a new …

For Terry McAuliffe To Beat Ken Cuccinelli, He Needs To Win Over Democrats

Virginia gave President Obama a fairly comfortable 4-point victory (51 percent-47 percent) victory in 2012.  Yet the Washington Post has just released a poll showing Democrat Terry McAuliffe trailing arch-conservative Republican Ken Cuccinelli by 5 points in the race for the 2013 Virginia governor’s office. Why the discrepancy? Well, elections will always going to be harder [...]

Ken Cuccinelli Is Winning. Here's Why.

Gage Skidmore/Flickr The race between Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli isn’t as bleak as the fight between Godzilla and Moth-Ra (thanks, Jonathan Chait, for the comparison), but it’s close. Fairly or not, McAuliffe is seen as a soulless...Show More Summary

A. Barton Hinkle on the Embarrassing Political Grandstanding of Ken Cuccinelli

Virginia Attorney General and outspoken conservative Ken Cuccinelli is currently seeking the governorship of the Old Dominion. If he loses that bid, writes A. Barton Hinkle, one contributing factor is likely to be the very sort of political grandstanding that Cuccinelli himself has long practiced. View this article.

The Embarrassing Political Grandstanding of Ken Cuccinelli