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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 10:27 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 26 May 2009 10:27
From the Roanoke Times:
Is it essential to balance the GOP’s statewide ticket with a nominee from vote-rich Northern Virginia, where Republican candidates have performed poorly in recent statewide elections?
Those are key questions state Republicans must settle Saturday when they choose John Brownlee of Roanoke County, Ken Cuccinelli of Fairfax County or Dave Foster of Arlington County as their nominee for attorney general. The contest is the headline event of the two-day convention, which begins on Friday.
Nearly 11,000 delegates have signed up to participate, and the candidates expect as many as 85 percent of them to show up at the Richmond Coliseum. Brownlee and Cuccinelli said they have chartered buses to transport some of their supporters.
I personally think it would help to have someone on the ticket from NoVa. It’s an area that has eaten us alive for years, and it’s easy for NoVa Democrats to just dismiss the Republican ticket as not caring about their interests.
Cuccinelli, and to a lesser extent, Foster, would help with this. Somebody that understands Northern Virginia and their everyday concerns (transportation, economic development) will be better able to compete in that region.
The days are gone when we can get our tails handed to us in NoVa but still win by running up the margins elsewhere. The population up there has exploded and we have to fight for a sizable chunk of it if we want to win.