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I knew that, indy's usually pull votes from the GOP anyway. I'm talking about how fiery he was against Griffith, that surprised me majorly, but as Ive said I didn't even know anything about him. I did learn from it that he is a vet and owns a small business in damascus I believe?
I was surprised to see on WCYB this morning that a poll yesterday showed Griffith leading 47-46. They said who ran the poll, but I forgot who it was. 800 people via phone, so Im sure theres a margin for error, but was still a little surprised. Boucher really hasn't been taken to the wire in a long long time.
Found it. SurveyUSA done the poll.
SurveyUSA Election Poll #17527
I was surprised too, so surprised that I don't believe it. It's basically impossible for a candidate to fall 11 points in that amount of time without a major catastrophe in the campaign. SurveyUSA also doesn't use a call center, it's all automated, which means it has a pretty high margin of error from what even they let on - probably clicking 5. That coupled with our internal polls that have boucher up quite a bit really leave me puzzled as to how in the hell they get this number. But with that said, this is a good thing, it fires voters up and if Boucher supporters just show up on election day than we win by a landslide. He made mention of it last night at the Jonesville dinner, which I loved. Also mentioned Heaton too and said he liked him now heh. - which I do too, he not only pulls votes from Griffith, he says what Boucher can't really say in these debates.
Some reminders, there's the last debate tomorrow at 7. Then the rally Sunday at MECC at the Goodloe Center, a lot of other officials will be there too and special guest including Mr. Cecil Roberts, starts at 5. Last chance to really talk with Congressman Boucher before the election, he'll gladly sit down and answer any personal question, he's done it at every event I've worked.
How influential is Cecil Roberts nowadays? The Union isn't huge in SWVA I don't believe anymore. I may be wrong. Not like it was 20 years ago. WV maybe, but not so much SWVA.
He's still pretty big, considering most voters are older, they very well remember how big it was 20 years ago. But with younger people, you're right, he's not as influential...but he's still pretty popular from those I've talked to making calls when I tell them about the event. Pretty sure Griffith was in Norton today, I think so anyway, there was a little event right in town.
I also learned of a voter suppression issue at a local factory, the workers were told that if they voted for Boucher, they would lose their job. This is one of the dirtiest and misleading campaigns I've ever seen ran, Boucher hasn't stooped to that level one time, though I wish he'd throw some shit right back at that piece of shit.
That just sounds a little fishy and stupid.
What is? We had to actually go to the plant and talk to the workers several times during the day(shift changes at the place). I'll just say the place is in Duffield, really wasn't supposed to say as much as I did, but that's as far as I'll go as to say where it was. I've learned it's not the only place that it has happened, but the other cases were less subtle than what happened here and weren't against the law.
Temper or Joy then I guess. Joy more than likely since its a mining manufacturing company. I still find that hard to believe, because theres no way that they can find out who you actually voted for.
BTW, as I was typing this I got a phone call from one of Bouchers reps looking to speak with my wife. Why single out a specific individual in a household if both are registered to vote? I did speak with the lady, and told her I haven't made up my mind, and I cannot speak for my wife. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it seemed kind of like maybe a target to women the day before the election?