Jessica Taylor: “A
loss by Ken Cuccinelli was supposed to have been a wake-up call to the
tea party that deeply conservative candidates couldn’t win in swing
states like Virginia. Instead, the GOP nominee’s near-miss in Tuesday’s
race for governor has only deepened the party’s ideological
divide….when the results came in, and the margin was only three
points, many were left wondering whether a win had been within reach.
They blamed the GOP cavalry for failing to ride in, believing that
Cuccinelli’s framing of the race as a referendum against Obamacare had
been a winning message.”
Washington Post: “McAuliffe’s unexpectedly slim victory in Virginia set off an
explosion of recriminations among Republicans on Wednesday, and rather
than settling the battle between the GOP’s tea party and business
factions, the election appears to have deepened the internal divide.””
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