Virginia GOP Convention Over Primary: Good Move?
The Virginia Republican Party will nominate candidates during a convention in two weeks, and some experts have weighed in on the system.
When Virginia’s Republican Party made a last-minute decision to nominate candidates for the 2013 election in a convention instead of a primary, it prompted Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling to withdraw his name from the race for governor. The move made Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s current attorney general, the GOP’s de facto nominee for governor. He's expected to be officially nominated during the Virginia Republican Convention May 17 and 18 in Richmond. (See our guide to the convention right here.) See Also: Poll: Does the Virginia GOP Convention Represent True Democracy? Bolling said he dropped out of the race because he didn’t agree with the convention system, arguing that it made the nomination exlusionary. “Conventions are by their very nature …
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8:59 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
This is terribly sad but not that surprising. I was hoping that Bolling would somehow mount a challenge for the nomination as the thought of "Gov. Cuccinelli" really gives me the creeps. I hope the commonwealth doesn't take such a dramatic step backwards but history doesn't bode well for the Democrats in this election. more ›