Election Day 2013 All of Them

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Repugs' worst nightmare is a good turnout, that's why they are full steam, blatant, unapologetic voter suppressors.

They think vagina-raper Cucci can win if turnout is in low 30%. oops

Virginia governor’s race: early turnout strong, no significant problems at precincts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/polls-open-across-virginia-in-hotly-contested-governors-race/2013/11/04/06c6205c-45d2-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html

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An Election About GOP Extremism, Unions, Wages and Dollarocracy (http://www.thenation.com/blog/176996/election-about-gop-extremism-unions-wages-and-dollarocracy)


Two states will elect governors Tuesday, and one of those governors could emerge as a 2016 presidential contender. The nation’s largest city will elect a mayor, as will hundreds of other communities. A minimum-wage hike is on the ballot. So is marijuana legalization. So is the labeling of genetically-modified foods. And Seattle might elect a city council member who promises to open the fight for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.

Forget the silly dodge that says local and state elections don’t tell us anything. They provide measures of how national developments—like the federal government shutdown—are playing politically. They give us a sense of whether the “War on Women” is widening the gender gap. They tell us what issues are in play, and the extent to which the political debate is evolving.

Here are some signals to watch for as the results come in tonight:

1. Have Republican Extremists Finally Gone Too Far?

2. Is Chris Christie as Big a Deal as Chris Christie Thinks Chris Christie Is?

3. Is This the End of Urban Republicanism?

4. Are Voters Tired of Politicians who Pick on Unions?

5. Has the Time Come for Legalization of Marijuana? Or at Least Decriminalization?

6. Doesn’t Everyone Deserve a Raise?

7. Will Big Money Keep Labels off GM Food?

http://www.thenation.com/blog/176996/election-about-gop-extremism-unions-wages-and-dollarocracy?rel=emailNation#

[boobie4three]

Surprise: Obama Bundler Bankrolling Libertarian in VA Governor's Race

Katie Pavlich | Nov 05, 2013

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book: backing a third candidate in order to beat the main competition. This time, this tactic is being used in the Virginia gubernatorial race by Democrats who are heavily backing "Libertarian" candidate Robert Sarvis in an effort to pull votes away from Republican Ken Cuccinelli. Meredith Jessup at The Blaze has all of the dirty details.

A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot — a move that could split conservative votes in a tight race.

Campaign finance records show the Libertarian Booster PAC has made the largest independent contribution to Sarvis’ campaign, helping to pay for professional petition circulators who collected signatures necessary to get Sarvis’ name on Tuesday’s statewide ballot.

Austin, Texas, software billionaire Joe Liemandt is the Libertarian Booster PAC’s major benefactor. He’s also a top bundler for President Barack Obama. This revelation comes as Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday in an election where some observers say the third-party gubernatorial candidate could be a spoiler for Republican Ken Cuccinelli.

Naturally, Sarvis' campaign won't explain the backing and refused to discuss whether he was recruited by Democrats to upset the race in Democrat Terry McAuliffe's favor.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/11/05/surprise-obama-bundler-bankrolling-libertarian-in-va-governors-race-n1737981

Yeah it's from Townhall.

Dirty tricks like these are right out of the Dems playbook.

[boobie4three]

With 38% of the vote in for the VA Guv race, Cuccinelli leads McAuliffe 50% to 43%, with 7% going to the Libertarian candidate. Exit polls however indicate McAuliffe ahead, so who knows what's going to happen.

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map showing rural VA tea bagger, and the suburban/coastal VA blue


http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2013/results

[m>s]

crawl back in your hole fucking commie

one day all of the white brothers will unite in a country again under the swastika, even if we have to cut your head off to do it. suck it bitch.

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woo hoo! the VA tea bagger medical rapist loses! Dems take VA L-G, too.

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a tea bagger also lost in Alabama

[baseline bum]

LOL a teabagger having any chance in Virginia after their retarded government shutdown put lots of Virginians out of work.

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LOL a teabagger having any chance in Virginia after their retarded government shutdown put lots of Virginians out of work.

conservatives are pissed Cucci got so close, because they wanted him beat badly to support their case that extremists like Cucci are bad for the Repugs. But VA is a Confederate state with lots of rural districts, backwoods bubbas, who always get suckered into voting against their own best (financial) interests.

In Alabama, tea bagger lost to CoC:

In Alabama, Big Business Beats The Tea Party In A GOP House Race

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/11/05/243360174/in-alabama-big-business-beats-tea-party-in-congressional-race?sc=17&f=1001

and

Alienating big business: Lack of money for conservative Republicans a trend across the country

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/05/alienating-big-business-lack-of-money-for-conservative-republicans-a-trend-across-the-country/

iow, business WANTS Big Government for itself and small govt for everybody else, just like the VRWC/1% strategy.

[boobie4three]

Here's some things to think about.


1 Progressive Democrats had to cheat to win. They placed a faux libertarian (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362690/sarvis-libertarian-nope-charles-c-w-cooke), who in no way even upheld libertarian principles, and was bankrolled by an Obama bundler (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/05/revealed-obama-campaign-bundler-helping-fund-libertarian-in-tight-va-gubernatorial-race/), in the race to subtract votes away from the Republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli. Less than a week ago, the Libertarian candidate was showing 12% of the vote. He ended up with 7% as the news surfaced that he was a democrat plant. Unfortunately, this revelation happened the day of the election and apparently many libertarians didn’t get the news. However, if this news had been made available only a few days ago, shaving 1 or 2 percent off the phony libertarian’s numbers, Cuccinelli would have won.

2 Obamacare is, and will continue to be a bloodbath for democrats. Less than a week ago, respected polling firm, Rasmussen Reports showed McAuliffe easily winning (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2013/virginia/election_2013_virginia_governor). As news has came forward that Obama and his minions have progressively lied about Obamacare’s promises, McAuliffe’s numbers came crashing down. This should strike fear in the hearts of Democrats come 2014, as these lies will only become more transparent.

3 Virginia is packed with government employees who benefit from big government, something Cuccinelli is diametrically opposed to. Based on this alone, especially following the partial government shutdown, which was incorrectly blamed on Republicans, should have given McAuliffe a landslide. Instead, McAuliffe barely squeaked by by only three percent? If a democrat can’t win handily in this state, then what will 2014 bring nationwide?

4 The Republican Party establishment did virtually nothing to support the conservative, Cuccinelli. In 2009, the RNC spent $9 million and won the Virginia governor’s race by a whopping 17 points. This time, they spent a paltry $3 million, mainly on their Opportunity Project infrastructure, a tiny sum for a race of this importance with a candidate that truly upholds Republican Party principles.

5 The Democrat Party “victory” is a shallow one. Even the far-left rag, Mother Jones, admits that McAuliffe is a sleazebag (http://www.tpnn.com/even-mother-jones-recognizes-that-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-is-a-sleazebag/). Good luck, Virginia!

6 McAuliffe won by a miniscule margin even though he outspent Cuccinelli by a large margin. Even the Democrat Washington Post admits this (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-consistently-outspent-cuccinelli/2013/11/05/e991653e-4651-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html).

The Virginia gubernatorial race should have been a landslide for democrats. They outspent by wide margins. They were so desperate that they had to cheat to win. They had to revert to sleazy tactics, unable to honorably win on the issues. Democrats recently had a gargantuan lead, and they lost it, largely because of Obamacare.

The GOP’s lack of support for this race sent a message that they would rather lose, than support a candidate who they deem as “too conservative,” i.e., someone who actually upholds their own party principles. Watch for the blame game to start. The RINO establishment will blame the Tea Party. The Democrat Communist Progressives will blame the Tea Party. The reality is that despite the Democrat’s cheating and the complete lack of RINO support, the Tea Party still made this an extremely close race, with Cuccinelli losing by only three percent.

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boobie brain continues to be full of shit

any Dem is better than a tea bagger and MOST Repugs.

[angrydude]

Grey Davis says hi

[Th'Pusher]

Here's some things to think about.


1 Progressive Democrats had to cheat to win. They placed a faux libertarian (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362690/sarvis-libertarian-nope-charles-c-w-cooke), who in no way even upheld libertarian principles, and was bankrolled by an Obama bundler (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/05/revealed-obama-campaign-bundler-helping-fund-libertarian-in-tight-va-gubernatorial-race/), in the race to subtract votes away from the Republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli. Less than a week ago, the Libertarian candidate was showing 12% of the vote. He ended up with 7% as the news surfaced that he was a democrat plant. Unfortunately, this revelation happened the day of the election and apparently many libertarians didn’t get the news. However, if this news had been made available only a few days ago, shaving 1 or 2 percent off the phony libertarian’s numbers, Cuccinelli would have won.

2 Obamacare is, and will continue to be a bloodbath for democrats. Less than a week ago, respected polling firm, Rasmussen Reports showed McAuliffe easily winning (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2013/virginia/election_2013_virginia_governor). As news has came forward that Obama and his minions have progressively lied about Obamacare’s promises, McAuliffe’s numbers came crashing down. This should strike fear in the hearts of Democrats come 2014, as these lies will only become more transparent.

3 Virginia is packed with government employees who benefit from big government, something Cuccinelli is diametrically opposed to. Based on this alone, especially following the partial government shutdown, which was incorrectly blamed on Republicans, should have given McAuliffe a landslide. Instead, McAuliffe barely squeaked by by only three percent? If a democrat can’t win handily in this state, then what will 2014 bring nationwide?

4 The Republican Party establishment did virtually nothing to support the conservative, Cuccinelli. In 2009, the RNC spent $9 million and won the Virginia governor’s race by a whopping 17 points. This time, they spent a paltry $3 million, mainly on their Opportunity Project infrastructure, a tiny sum for a race of this importance with a candidate that truly upholds Republican Party principles.

5 The Democrat Party “victory” is a shallow one. Even the far-left rag, Mother Jones, admits that McAuliffe is a sleazebag (http://www.tpnn.com/even-mother-jones-recognizes-that-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-is-a-sleazebag/). Good luck, Virginia!

6 McAuliffe won by a miniscule margin even though he outspent Cuccinelli by a large margin. Even the Democrat Washington Post admits this (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-consistently-outspent-cuccinelli/2013/11/05/e991653e-4651-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html).

The Virginia gubernatorial race should have been a landslide for democrats. They outspent by wide margins. They were so desperate that they had to cheat to win. They had to revert to sleazy tactics, unable to honorably win on the issues. Democrats recently had a gargantuan lead, and they lost it, largely because of Obamacare.

The GOP’s lack of support for this race sent a message that they would rather lose, than support a candidate who they deem as “too conservative,” i.e., someone who actually upholds their own party principles. Watch for the blame game to start. The RINO establishment will blame the Tea Party. The Democrat Communist Progressives will blame the Tea Party. The reality is that despite the Democrat’s cheating and the complete lack of RINO support, the Tea Party still made this an extremely close race, with Cuccinelli losing by only three percent.

A feux libertarian who in no way upheld libertarian values had 12% of the electorates vote at one point? :lol libertarians only vote for the L in front of the name :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Here's some things to think about.The biggest takeaway from that is butthurt Republicans are butthurt.

Field a candidate that isn't terrible. Maybe you could beat a terrible Democratic candidate.

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A feux libertarian who in no way upheld libertarian values had 12% of the electorates vote at one point? :lol libertarians only vote for the L in front of the name :lol

these guys will never set the world on feux :)

[ElNono]

:cry moral victories :cry

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Maddow: If you’re glad Cuccinelli lost, thank a woman

Beltway press about this race all along there’s been this kind of gauzy wonder,” Maddow said, “about how it is that Terry McAuliffe is doing so disproportionately well among women.”

what Cuccinelli and the Republicans did to drive them away.

From closing clinics across the state to mandating trans-vaginal ultrasound probes for any women seeking an abortion (which earned McDonnell the nickname “Gov. Ultrasound”), it is almost as if the Republican Party in Virginia went out of its way to alienate women.

“Turns out, you know, that Ken Cuccinelli is not that much of a mystery,” she said. “He’s the harder-to-spell, dark-haired human embodiment of Bob McDonnell’s social conservative agenda.”
Not only does Cuccinelli want abortion made illegal in Virginia, he’s against contraception access and any form of sex outside the heterosexual missionary position.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/06/maddow-if-youre-glad-cuccinelli-lost-thank-a-woman/

iow, VA women won this battle in the tea baggers/Repug/VWRC War on Women.

VRWC? yes, Kock Bros:


Koch brothers poured tens of millions of dollars into anti-choice movement

tax documents show Koch-directed “pro-business” groups threw their money and resources behind legislative initiatives designed to shut down women’s health clinics and deny women access to contraception, reproductive health services and abortions.

“There is little doubt that the rash of anti-choice measures that flooded the legislative dockets in state capitols in 2013 was a coordinated effort by anti-choice groups and major right-wing donors lurking anonymously behind the facades of the non-profit “social welfare” organizations unleashed to tear up the political landscape, thanks to the high court’s decision in Citizens United,” Stan wrote.

“Helping to drive the right-wing offensive in the states and in Congress is a network of deep-pocketed business titans convened by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, principals in Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held corporation in the United States,”


Politico detailed (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/behind-the-curtain-exclusive-the-koch-brothers-secret-bank-96669.html) how the Koch network uses the shell company Freedom Partners as a clearinghouse. A bloc of around 200 donors give an average of $100,000 per year to Freedom Partners.

Freedom Partners awarded more than $236 million in grants to anti-choice groups and other far-right causes since its inception in November of 2011. The group’s outlay is second only to Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which has awarded more than $300 million to conservative causes and politicians.

Among the groups who have been on the receiving end of Freedom Partners’ largess include the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a virulently anti-abortion and anti-Obamacare group; the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, a right-wing social pressure group; Generation Opportunity, a group that targets “Liberty-loving” young people and Americans for Prosperity, a think-tank and policy group that works closely with the Republican Party on the presidential nominating process.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/06/koch-brothers-poured-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-into-anti-choice-movement/

[TeyshaBlue]

:cry moral victories :cry

Christie took NJ with 30% of the dem vote.:lol

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Did someone say Chris Christie?

http://www.ontheissues.org/Chris_Christie.htm

0.1% Wall st fat, morbidly obese, cat on the issues. shame the bankers but don't regulate them? what else from a Wall St vet? etc, etc. etc.

[ElNono]

Christie took NJ with 30% of the dem vote.:lol

Next prez, IMO

[Nbadan]

Next prez, IMO

Southern Tea Party voting for a Yankee ..

hmmm......Cruz or Christie.....or both....

[Jacob1983]

Chris Christie is not gonna win in 2016. He is too fat to be president in this America. The media will devour him.

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Pundits blow it again: No, Christie is not the next great moderate hope (http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/pundits_blow_it_again_no_christie_is_not_the_next_ great_moderate_hope/)

The media will want to crown Chris Christie as the GOP's new model centrist. Here's why that's ludicrous

while it’s true that Christie has at times shown an admirable willingness to buck the most extreme elements of his party’s base, it’d be going too far — much too far (http://www.salon.com/2013/06/04/dear_everyone_chris_christie_is_conservative/) — to call the man a moderate.

To stay alive in these politically hazardous environs, blue-state Republicans make a show of breaking with the rest of their party — on issues that may be prominent in terms of media attention, but are actually of secondary or tertiary importance from a policy perspective. So, for example, you get the once omnipresent images of Christie walking side-by-side with President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation; or you get Christie’s decision to drop a clearly doomed appeal to a judge’s ruling ushering in gay marriage in his state.

In both instances, Christie ticks off just enough conservatives for it to get noticed (Matt Drudge (https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/397811311641640961), for example, is not a fan) but not so many as to actually, materially damage his position within the broader conservative movement. On the real, bedrock issues for modern conservatism — low taxes on the wealthy, cuts to public services and attacks on the workers who help provide them, and opposition to women’s reproductive health — Christie is about as conservative as they come.

Christie is “easily the most conservative politician elected to statewide office in New Jersey in the past 60 years, and possibly longer.”

The normal Republican blueprint in the Northeast is to run as a center-right candidate on fiscal matters and center-left — if not left — on social issues (remember, Christine Todd Whitman opposed a ban on partial-birth abortions). On fiscal matters, Christie has been pretty hawkish, taking on the state’s teachers’ unions, overseeing cuts in spending and lowering taxes. Even on social issues, he has been fairly conservative, especially by Northeastern standards — he’s pro-life, against gay marriage (though he does support civil unions), and he even cut state funding for Planned Parenthood. This is an unusually conservative overall profile for a successful Republican politician in the region, much less for one of the most successful Republican politicians there in a generation.

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/pundits_blow_it_again_no_christie_is_not_the_next_ great_moderate_hope/

How's that lap-band surgery workin out for ya, Chris? 9 months later, you're got the body of an Iron Man athlete! :lol

but morbidly obese (clinically diseased) Christie would epitomize 2/3 of America, so maybe as symbol of Biblical sin of gluttony (like Hagee), CC would be appropriate President.

(ain't gonna happen)

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NRA Loses Big At Home

Yesterday's gubernatorial election in Virginia was a remarkable setback for the Virginia-based National Rifle Association. Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli, despite McAuliffe's support of expansive new gun control laws, like universal background checks and limits on assault rifles and high-capacity magazine. Indeed, McAuliffe had an "F" rating from the NRA, compared to Cuccinelli's "A" rating. And yet, even in a state with a lot of rural, pro-gun voters, McAuliffe emerged victorious.

McAuliffe's victory is a boon to gun control advocates. Ever since President Barack Obama's failed effort to pass new gun control laws died in the Senate, many people have worried that support for gun control was a death knell to elected officials outside of a handful of solidly blue states. That worry only became more pronounced when two Colorado lawmakers who voted for that state's recently enacted gun control laws were recalled in a bitter election contest in September.

"The story line we were told by so many pundits after the Colorado recall was that gun control is dead, that no candidate in his right mind would campaign on gun control," says Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

McAuliffe's victory counters the view that gun control supporters can't win in hotly contested purple states with lots of guns. Virginia, typically a battleground state, boasts a population of over 2 million gun owners. And it's also the home base of the NRA, whose headquarters is located in Fairfax. That's partially why the NRA fought hard to see to it that McAuliffe didn't win. The gun rights group spent half a million dollars on ads to defeat him. The money, it turns out, was not well spent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/nras-loses-big-at-home_b_4226975.html

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Mann 2, Cuccinelli 0: Climate Denial Becomes Wedge Issue, As Hockey Stick Beats Tea Party (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/06/2899121/mann-cuccinelli-climate-denial-wedge-issue/)

The pro-science side has won the latest skirmish in the climate wars. In a tight race where climate denial became a focus, pro-science candidate Terry McAuliffe was elected governor of Virginia over anti-science candidate Ken Cuccinelli, who infamously launched a (losing (http://blog.ucsusa.org/can-attacking-scientists-be-a-political-liability-292)) witch hunt against leading climatologist Michael Mann.

And in a timely coincidence, that most vindicated of climate scientists (http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/07/01/206340/michael-mann-hockey-stick-exonerated-penn-state/) has just published the paperback version of his excellent new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. Anyone who wants to be informed about real climate science and the state of the climate fight should get a copy here (http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Stick-Climate-Wars-Dispatches/dp/0231152558/).

Chris Mooney noted in his 2012 article on my blogging (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/why-arent-politicians-listening-to-joe-romm-about-climate-change/263432/), “For years, he’s been arguing that talking about the science of warming is a winning political strategy. Now, new polling data are backing him up.”

More and more public opinion analysis is making clear that a candidate advocating climate action drives a wedge between the anti-science Tea Party extremists (http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/02/380400/koch-denial-backfires-independents-other-republicans-split-with-tea-party-on-global-warming/) and the rest of the Republican party (and independent/moderate voters).

In fact, a Pew poll (http://www.people-press.org/2013/11/01/gop-deeply-divided-over-climate-change/) out just this month finds that the Tea Party is the only major political group in this country mired in denial. While 67% of all Americans say “there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades,” and 61% of non-Tea Party Republicans say that, only 25% of Tea Party Republicans agree with that basic statement of fact.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/06/2899121/mann-cuccinelli-climate-denial-wedge-issue/

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Minimum wage: Today SeaTac, tomorrow the nation?

Well, no. If the trend holds and SeaTac voters approve a $15-per-hour minimum wage, it will be very hard to translate this victory into a national movement.

SeaTac is a tiny municipality with only 12,000 registered voters. It has a large number of low-wage restaurant and hotel businesses that are captive to their proximity to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They will have little choice but to pay the new wage.

For that same reason, SeaTac won’t likely be a useful laboratory to examine the unintended consequences that critics warned about, or the benefits that supporters claim.

Enacting the wage in a city such as Seattle would be much more difficult, even though Mayor-elect Ed Murray has paid lip service to it. Business community resistance would be fierce and potent. And businesses would have more options: Move, close, cut back hours and refuse to hire the least-skilled workers.


America does face a serious inequality problem that drives support for measures such as the SeaTac vote. At one time, businesses shared productivity gains more widely with workers. That stopped in the 1970s. If the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity, it would have been $21.72 an hour last year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Instead, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 and $9.19 in Washington, the highest in the nation.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/jontalton/2013/11/06/minimum-wage-today-seatac-tomorrow-the-nation/

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G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing

Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say would result in the selection of less extreme contenders.

The push comes as the national Republican Party is grappling with vexing divisions over its identity and image, and mainstream leaders complain that more ideologically-driven conservatives are damaging the party with tactics like the government shutdown.

The debate intensified on Wednesday after Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the deeply conservative Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, lost a close race in which Democrats highlighted his opposition to abortion in almost all circumstances, his views on contraception and comments in which he seemed to liken immigration policy to pest control.

The party leaders pushing for changes want to replace state caucuses and conventions, like the one that nominated Mr. Cuccinelli, with a more open primary system that they believe will draw a broader cross-section of Republicans and produce more moderate candidates.

Similar pushes are already underway in other states, including Montana and Utah,

“Conventions have a flimsy track record of selecting the most electable candidates,” David Kochel, an Iowa-based Republican strategist, said in an interview on Wednesday. “There’s just no good substitute for a full-scale vetting by a large universe of primary voters.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-of-right-wing.html?from=homepage