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.
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 . This victory triples the total number of Democratic state legislative pickups since Trump was elected, and reduces the GOP majority to just a few seats.Many of these individual races were themselves inspiring. There was Danica Roem, the transgender journalist who beat a virulently antigay GOP lawmaker. There was [vido=twitter;928074429019459584]https://twitter.com/flippable_org/status/928074429019459584"[/video], who will be Virginia’s first Asian-American woman lawmaker. There was [vide=twitter;928075305058750465]https://twitter.com/timfullerton/status/928075305058750465"[/video], whose reporter girlfriend was shot and killed on live TV, and who gave up his career in news to go into politics and fight gun violence.
But Democrats did even more than win big on Tuesday. They broke a Republican gerrymandering scheme in Virginia that has been in force for nearly a decade.For years, Republicans in Virginia have controlled the House of Delegates because they were allowed to draw their own district lines after the last census. GOP lawmakers played with district boundaries to pack Democratic voters into a few small districts, while spreading Republican voters out across several, thus rigging the races to skew more GOP than the popular vote.Virginia is one of the most heavily such gerrymandered states, although Republicans have used this model to rig state legislatures nationwide. Some of these schemes were so blatantly illegal the Supreme Court struck them down, as in North Carolina.Now that Virginia has a Democratic governor, and the GOP House caucus has been severely weakened, it will be almost impossible for Republicans to get a gerrymandered legislative map through when it is due to be redrawn in 2021. They will have to draw the map fairly.Democrats’ stunning, inspirational victory in the House of Delegates is a signal that not only is Donald Trump on notice, the entire corrupt GOP machine is on notice with him. And with 2018 around the corner, Tuesday night is only the beginning.
"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."
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.
Althea (11-08-2017), Bill (11-08-2017), blackascoal (11-08-2017), christiefan915 (11-08-2017), Cypress (11-07-2017), evince (11-08-2017), katzgar (11-08-2017), Phantasmal (11-08-2017)
Althea (11-08-2017), blackascoal (11-08-2017), evince (11-08-2017), Phantasmal (11-08-2017)
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.
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".
Bill (11-08-2017), christiefan915 (11-08-2017), Rune (11-08-2017), ZappasGuitar (11-08-2017)
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
Bigdog (11-08-2017)
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.
Althea (11-08-2017), Phantasmal (11-08-2017)
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.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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.
katzgar (11-08-2017), Phantasmal (11-08-2017)
"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".
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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