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Facing Questions About Anti-Gerrymander GOTV Operation, VA GOP Expresses Confidence In Dems’ Obama Ads

‘It’s not going to be a television ad that wins the day. It’s going to be that person-to-person contact that ends up putting us over the top. So we’ve engineered our campaign that way,’ Ryer said.

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With a major funding deficit compared to Democrats and a slow-to-start get-out-the-vote operation underway, Virginia Republicans say anti-gerrymandering sentiment and a polarizing Barack Obama will help them defeat Democrat efforts to rig the congressional map.

In a Monday briefing organized by Virginians for Fair Maps, a group co-chaired by former Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and former Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares, and hosted by Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Ryer, Republican strategists said the Democrats’ plan to garner support will backfire among independents and Republicans.

Grafting in people like Obama, who is at the center of constantly-running, pro-gerrymander ads, will polarize many across the state, the strategist who spoke on background said, because his approval rating among Republicans is essentially nonexistent.

He added that Obama’s involvement also signals the highly partisan nature of the referendum to independents who do not necessarily want their U.S. congressman decided by the handful of highly populous, deep-blue counties in the commonwealth’s northern D.C. suburbs.

The referendum — which would take Virginia’s congressional delegation of six Democrats and five Republicans and transform it into a delegation of........

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