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    Default Virginia flips 14 seats blue in biggest Democratic pick-up since 1899

    Virginia flips 14 seats blue in biggest Democratic pick-up since 1899

    By Matthew Chapman |[COLOR=#999999 !important]NOVEMBER 7, 2017



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    Democrats scored an enormous moral victory and a blow to Donald Trump on Tuesday by electing Ralph Northam as the next governor of Virginia.But in addition to electing Northam, Democrats flipped 14 number of seats in the Virginia House of Delegates — the largest Democratic gain in a single election in the state
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    But VA is the bluest of blue states. It's bluer than NYC or L.A.

    Actually, no - it's not. Tonight was real bad for Trump's GOP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    But VA is the bluest of blue states. It's bluer than NYC or L.A.

    Actually, no - it's not. Tonight was real bad for Trump's GOP.
    Even extreme gerrymandering did not save the Virginia GOP.

    I suspect they are going to try for some sort of state level-equivalent of the electoral college next....allowing their shitty candidates to win in states where they lose the popular vote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    But VA is the bluest of blue states. It's bluer than NYC or L.A.

    Actually, no - it's not. Tonight was real bad for Trump's GOP.
    No it isn’t. Nobody is saying it is. Even on a night the democrat party wins you sound like a buffoon

    Gillespie is a swamp creature. He lost his race for governor once before.

    If I have learned anything about politics over my many years it is that voters in general aren’t very ideological. They ALWAYS want change and vote for it.

    Parties are up and parties are down.

    In 2004 Karl Rove famously said there was a reordering. He was wrong.

    In 2012 democrats said Republicans would never win another’s Presidential election

    People make big mistakes over reading election results because they want them to mean more than they do.

    You have been strangely quiet about the Virginia election now you are preening about it like it has been your sole focus for weeks now

    I don’t recall you posting at all about these elections until it was clear Northram would win. Then you slink out of your hide hole.

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    Southern, former Slave State, Virginia votes Socialist Democrat, again

    So much for the leftwing myth that the parties switched names back in the 40's ... or 70's ... depending on which socialist is telling the lie.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    No it isn’t. Nobody is saying it is. Even on a night the democrat party wins you sound like a buffoon

    Gillespie is a swamp creature. He lost his race for governor once before.

    If I have learned anything about politics over my many years it is that voters in general aren’t very ideological. They ALWAYS want change and vote for it.

    Parties are up and parties are down.

    In 2004 Karl Rove famously said there was a reordering. He was wrong.

    In 2012 democrats said Republicans would never win another’s Presidential election

    People make big mistakes over reading election results because they want them to mean more than they do.

    You have been strangely quiet about the Virginia election now you are preening about it like it has been your sole focus for weeks now

    I don’t recall you posting at all about these elections until it was clear Northram would win. Then you slink out of your hide hole.
    Triggered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    No it isn’t. Nobody is saying it is. Even on a night the democrat party wins you sound like a buffoon

    Gillespie is a swamp creature. He lost his race for governor once before.

    If I have learned anything about politics over my many years it is that voters in general aren’t very ideological. They ALWAYS want change and vote for it.

    Parties are up and parties are down.

    In 2004 Karl Rove famously said there was a reordering. He was wrong.

    In 2012 democrats said Republicans would never win another’s Presidential election

    People make big mistakes over reading election results because they want them to mean more than they do.

    You have been strangely quiet about the Virginia election now you are preening about it like it has been your sole focus for weeks now

    I don’t recall you posting at all about these elections until it was clear Northram would win. Then you slink out of your hide hole.
    Holy crap, what a meltdown.
    Breath into a brown paper bag, I can literally sense you hyperventilating.

    Do you need smelling salts and a tissue?

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    Northern Va. is a growing population. It's an extension of DC and Maryland politics,and lots of civil servants.
    The vote is close, but the northern VA is simply more populous

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    i think it's cute and adorable how much you dems extrapolate this. You just betray your own deep seeded desperation and inferiority complex


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    So far, I'd give the spin an "A" for effort - like, really trying hard. But, unfortunately, a D+ for logic and actual content.

    The talking points will hit the streets within the next 1-2 hours, and you guys can hone your message more as the week rolls on.

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    If the repubs had won, we'd be hearing the usual myth of how Va. is still a white racist slave State.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

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    Trump has done nothing but play to his hardcore base.

    His hardcore base is about 30-35% of the voting populace. He's not very big on math.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    Trump has done nothing but play to his hardcore base.

    His hardcore base is about 30-35% of the voting populace. He's not very big on math.
    And cheating Hillbag and her strap-on won 65-70% of the voting populace ... according to YOUR math.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperator View Post
    i think it's cute and adorable how much you dems extrapolate this. You just betray your own deep seeded desperation and inferiority complex
    That and they have been waiting a year literally a year so they could boast about a political win. They have all this pent up angst they are dying to unleash

    As I accurately predicted, these same people who didn’t start one thread about yesterday’s election prior to it taking place now all of a sudden think it is their path forward and it was their rapture.

    Deep down they were scared to death about yesterday leading up to it because they feared Gillespie would win and they were trying to inoculate themselves. If Gillespie had own they would have claimed they never cared about it.

    I didn’t realize how much you and I damaged poor Thingy’s fragile ego.

    Now he will spend all his time typing the word “triggered” in response to anything I say.

    I know these people better than they know themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperator View Post
    i think it's cute and adorable how much you dems extrapolate this. You just betray your own deep seeded desperation and inferiority complex
    I love when you project! <3

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