they ve been struck off the voter list. counties are not being required to notify voters that they were purging them, and they ve purged more than 40,000 people off the list. so, 40,000 people have been purged. who knows how many of them have been notified that they ve been purged. they re going to turn up to vote tomorrow with no notice that there s been any problem and no indication of what should happen once they point that out to voting officials. so, tomorrow may be a weird day at the polls across virginia. in the past, republicans have not liked to admit publicly what they will sometimes admit privately and what has become an article of political science faith, which is that lower turnout elections benefit republicans. higher turnout elections benefit democrats. that s always been sort of a known thing in political science. it s something that republicans will talk about behind closed doors and in sort of the conservative movement, but for some reason, this year, this has now bec
been notified that they ve been purged. they re going to turn up to vote tomorrow with no notice that there s been any problem and no indication of what should happen once they point that out to voting officials. so, tomorrow may be a weird day at the polls across virginia. in the past, republicans have not liked to admit publicly what they will sometimes admit privately and what has become an article of political science faith, which is that lower turnout elections benefit republicans. higher turnout elections benefit democrats. that s always been sort of a known thing in political science. it s something that republicans will talk about behind closed doors and in sort of the conservative movement, but for some reason, this year, this has now become something that republicans are no longer embarrassed about. this has become something that republican officials will actually get less shy about saying in public and to reporters. so, in virginia, heading into tomorrow s big statewide race
they re going to turn up to vote tomorrow with no notice that there s been any problem and no indication of what should happen once they point that out to voting officials. so, tomorrow may be a weird day at the polls across virginia. in the past, republicans have not liked to admit publicly what they will sometimes admit privately and what has become an article of political science faith, which is that lower turnout elections benefit republicans. higher turnout elections benefit democrats. that s always been sort of a known thing in political science. it s something that republicans will talk about behind closed doors and in sort of the conservative movement, but for some reason, this year, this has now become something that republicans are no longer embarrassed about. this has become something that republican officials will actually get less shy about saying in public and to reporters. so, in virginia, heading into tomorrow s big statewide race, the chairman of the virginia republica
promoting the welfare of elephants. right. and we all know she does have a book coming out. in her 2008 campaign, hillary clinton s stance on iraq was an issue. is her similarly hawkish stance on syria going to be a problem for her if she does, indeed, decide to run in 2016? no. no, it s not going to be a problem. we thought that was going to be it the joe biden of msnbc. come on. no, seriously, we re in an era of turnout elections, no middle to be fought over. the democratic base loves hillary to death. the women of america love and admi admire hillary to death. people are not going to misunderstand syria, which would be extraordinarily difficult for any leader. no good options. the rebels are led by an al qaeda group. so helping tacitly helping them is helping the enemy. helping assad, known to have gassed his people, more than once, up to 25 times, some have
ferrari and the $145,000 in cash, and the $6,000 rolex and the oscar de la renta suede jacket and all the rest that he s taken. nice haul, right? as governor, bob mcdonnell gets paid $175,000 as his real salary. he doesn t the have to take it from anybody, it s paid to him officially. and he gets a free place to live. now there s a new twist in all this, when governor mcdonnell first got elected it was not a surprise that a republican won the virginia governorship. i mean, virginia has been trending blue in presidential election years, but when virginia holds its statewide races in odd off years it ends up being a lower turnout affair, and lower turnout elections often tend to benefit republicans.