{"id":6975,"date":"2010-06-01T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2010-06-01T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:50:15","slug":"5th-district-republican-primary-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/01\/5th-district-republican-primary-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"5th District Republican Primary \u2013 Update #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/19\/5th-district-republican-primary-%E2%80%93-update-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last update: 5th District Republican Primary \u2013 Update #2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Seven days to go until this election is decided is decided in the voting booth. Let&#8217;s do a quick update on whats happened in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at each candidate (in random order)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feda Morton &#8211; Morton seems to have semi-survived her campaign&#8217;s meltdown about the nasty divorce issues and the plagiarism. She&#8217;s lost some of her endorsements, but most of her endorsement list are from the &#8220;who the hell are they?&#8221; list. Since our last update, Morton comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Jim McKelvey &#8211; McKelvey continues to run a good campaign, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/27\/jim-mckelvey-flings-some-crap-at-the-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s really stretching the truth on his mailers<\/a>. However, at this stage of the game the only way that he&#8217;s going to beat the frontrunner is to constantly attack. His &#8220;Angry Man&#8221; character is still attracting a subset of the voters. Since our last update, McKelvey comes out <strong>SLIGHTLY UP<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Ferrin &#8211; Ferrin&#8217;s having a damned good time in this campaign and it shows in his demeanor. It won&#8217;t help him pull any more votes, but it&#8217;s fun to see a candidate enjoy the race. Ferrin&#8217;s latest play is to tout his endorsement from the Frederick Douglass Foundation to get black votes. It may very well work and get him both of the black votes that will be cast. Since our last update, Ferrin comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hurt &#8211; Hurt continues to absorb the attacks from the other candidates and it&#8217;s seeming like the attacks don&#8217;t bother him one bit. He&#8217;s been very quiet over the past month and is coasting to the finish line. Since our last update, Hurt comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Mike McPadden &#8211; McPadden is keeping his head above water in this race but hasn&#8217;t done anything spectacular to set him apart from the rest lately. Since our last update, McPadden comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Laurence Verga &#8211; Is Verga still in this election? Whatever support base that Verga had is eroding quickly. Since our last update, Verga comes out <strong>SLIGHTLY DOWN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ken Boyd &#8211; Boyd is still missing from the Southside area, so I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s banking on the Albemarle County vote to carry him to victory. Not gonna happen. Since our last update, Boyd comes out <strong>SLIGHTLY DOWN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for the thoughts &amp; observations section&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike McPadden &amp; Robert Hurt are being hit with attack websites that distort their stands on the issues. I&#8217;ve got my suspicions on who&#8217;s behind this, but no proof yet. All that&#8217;s listed on the website is the phone number of 434-262-0706 which has gone to voicemail every time I&#8217;ve tried it. The sites are hatchet jobs and I won&#8217;t link to them here.<\/li>\n<li>The Bearing Drift website has endorsed Feda Morton which boggles my mind. I never thought that Nigel Coleman &amp; Bearing Drift would have common ground.<\/li>\n<li>What in the hell happened to Laurence Verga&#8217;s campaign? His campaign started out so strong, and now he&#8217;s hovering at the 1% support level.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll say it again. Ron Ferrin&#8217;s having fun with this campaign. Good for him. He&#8217;s brought some much-needed humor into this process (although he has no chance of winning)<\/li>\n<li>Thumbs UP! (hey, that&#8217;s another SC feature) to all seven candidates for giving the middle finger to the regional (so-called) pundits who have begged somebody to drop out of the race. If you&#8217;ve invested this much emotional and financial capital into your campaign, to hell with the people asking you to drop out.<\/li>\n<li>For the people that say that there won&#8217;t be a consensus winner in this primary, cram it. Yep, the winner is going to get around 40 to 55% of the vote. When you consider that there&#8217;s only going to be (at most) 5% turnout for this primary, the results are not going to be anywhere close to indicative of the November election.<\/li>\n<li>Virgil Goode is not going to run, people. Forget about it. Get over it. Next. Topic.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hurt continues his strategy of laying low. It&#8217;s working.<\/li>\n<li>Too. Damned. Many. Forums. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/25\/another-5th-district-forum-ha-ha-ho-hum\/\" target=\"_self\">as I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>). Nothing&#8217;s changed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seven days to go and the finish line&#8217;s in sight. More to come? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Last update: 5th District Republican Primary \u2013 Update #2)<\/p>\n<p>Seven days to go until this election is decided is decided in the voting booth. 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