# Scott Walker drawing huge throngs in support of Cooch in Virginia (not)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 3, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-drawing-huge-throngs-in-support-of-cooch-in-virginia-not/672996 "2013-11-03T17:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-drawing-huge-throngs-in-support-of-cooch-in-virginia-not/672996/121 "2013-11-14T00:45:15Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> You may be right about all tha global warming stuff but so what? Are you trying to win a state election or advocate for federal policy?

Land use is state and local policy. The eastern third of Virginia is known as the Tidewater part of the state. I’ll give you one guess why.

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> You do realize that a significant part of Virgnia is coal country, right (its not like they drew teh west virginia border so that all the coal mines were on the West Virginia side)?

Just most of it. Along most of the VA/WV border you’ve got mostly limestone, not coal, speaking as one who’s done his share of crawling around inside that limestone. You’ve got to go a long way down before you get to coal country, and that’s in the most sparsely-populated corner of the state. Meanwhile, the areas of the Commonwealth that would be subject to increased coastal/estuary flooding in the event of continued global warming are quite heavily populated.

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> Add to that, the gun regulation stuff in a state that might as well have Eddie the Eagle as its state bird.

That’s certainly true in parts of Virginia, but a larger and larger percentage of Virginians are growing up in cities and suburbs, without guns.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-drawing-huge-throngs-in-support-of-cooch-in-virginia-not/672996/122 "2013-11-14T02:21:24Z")

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> Quoth **Damuri Ajashi** :
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> So what? Most of the confederates that died at Manassass weren’t slave owners.
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> The world is ful of useful idiots.

Except that lately, those idiots are proving to not be as useful as the puppeteers would like.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-drawing-huge-throngs-in-support-of-cooch-in-virginia-not/672996/123 "2013-11-14T03:48:22Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Except that lately, those idiots are proving to not be as useful as the puppeteers would like.

Do Not Call Up Any You Cannot Again Put Down!

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