Impact. 1570 a. M. Reporter just off main street in rocky mount, virginia, up this set of stairs is the National Campaign headquarters of former sixterm republican congressman virgil goode. Until now rural Franklin County was best known as the nations moon shine capital, but with ges goodes conservative base, he could be a spoiler siphoning off critical votes from the leading president ial candidates and impacting the states 13 electoral votes. Ive heard a number of times that a vote for virgil would be considered a protest vote and i said well, a protest against what . And the answer normally is well, i dont like either candidate. We love the fact that goode is running here. Reporter late into the night, democratic volunteer annette ma is working the phones at obama headquarters scrambling to capitalize on the goode factor. We do believe its going to make a difference. Those votes that are going to go for goode were probably intended for romney. Reporter goode is on the ballot in 26 s
and on the ground, the situation remained extremely tense as russian forces continue to occupy ukrainian military installations and maintain their black cade of ukrainian military ships in crimea. in the eastern part of the country, meanwhile, scuffles broke out between pro-russian demonstrators and those who support a united ukraine. back in the united states, conservatives had a message of their own as complicated and worrying as the situation in ukraine may be, it is also a perfect justification for everything they already believed. this is a symptom of a greater problem. it really in many ways started with benghazi when our consulate was overrun and our first ambassador was killed in 30 something years in the line of duty. three other brave americans died and not one person has been held accountable. you re sending the wrong signal to our foes around the country and putin is not going to stop his aggression until he feels the sting. on the right it seems it always c