Rumor is that she and her people are panicking. Sounds like tonight's result just swept out a bunch of local elected republicans that they wanted to use in their campaign infrastructure for next year. I wonder if she'll be someone to watch on tax reform because I'm pretty sure this forces her into a far more difficult position to treat upon, if she decides to run again (always possible she decides to retire).
Big take away stuff so far going into future elections. This puts the democrats in a better position to start building up a team for higher offices. It also eats into the GOP's war chest going forward because any guy they had that lost or any open seat they couldn't retain, is a seat they can use to boost their campaigns elsewhere (not just in VA, but nationwide). Also with the pickups, the Democrats will be in a much better position to be in control of the House of Delegates after 2019. Granted with Northam and Fairfax winning tonight, the GOP is forced to abandon any ideas of gerrymandering VA's electoral college to benefit them in 2020.
Sister lives in very conservative mountain VA. Apparently there were three candidates for board of supervisors who were all "no taxes, ever." They all lost. She's stoked.
Remember NoVA is notoriously later than a lot of the rest of VA. If patterns hold Republicans will have a big early lead that collapses as the North comes in.
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Also absentee totals in the site are 180,000. Which is a decent amount for an off year.
Some of the referendums off of that link are weird.
I particularly liked "Sale of Mixed Alcoholic Beverages (FRANKLIN COUNTY)" which won by over 50 points! I mean, that's due to small sample size (69-22), but it still counts! Also, the people of Wise County got rid of Sunday restrictions on booze purchases. So yay for alcoholism?
I'm surprised that some fairly hefty bond measures for schooling were determined by incredibly small numbers of total voters. Pulaski County, $47M passed, with barely 10K voters total. Falls Church $120M (rejected) and Lee County $47M (rejected), both with less than that. That's a lot of potential money being swung by a small voter base. At least with similar referendums in Fairfax and Loudoun there were 100K+ voters.
<snip, tweet about Dem voters getting calls intentionally misinforming them that their polling place having changed
Isn't it just amazing that nearly every fucking time we see this it's oddly Democratic voters being targeted with the misinformation?
Such an odd, inexplicable coincidence that no one should ever look into.
How this shit isn't chased down in the hunt for "voter fraud", shows just how partisan this bullshit is. I mean, we knew that already, but it puts it in stark relief.
Removing someone from the voter rolls for having the same or similar name to that of a convicted felon? Protection against voter fraud.
Requiring stringent ID requirements that disproportionately disenfranchise people of one party? Protection against voter fraud.
Investigating people intentionally trying to tamper with an election results via turnout manipulation? Meh. Whatever. That's not important.
Fuck off, you partisan hacks.
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it looks like the Dillwyn, VA, town council is going to manage to retain their seats after not a single member filed paperwork in time to be on the ballot
there was literally no one on their ballots and all four were write-in candidates
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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If only there were a way for the gop to energize its base and try to save as much face as humanly possible going into the next year.... and here comes the impeachment talks.
Just You Watch.
your patience will be rewarded.
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VA House Dems supports the party that picked up 16 seats so far in the HoD
Goodness, a tie in the Virginia house. The size of the Democratic vote to achieve that must be a swing which would turn Alabama blue! Ha, I kept on saying that the elephant in the room for Trump was that 2016, where he lost the popular vote by millions, and they lost seats in the house and Senate was a republican wave election. Just that their base is small enough now that it was still a tight race. If we can get a democratic wave in 2018 and the republican one fades, we could be looking at a truly amazing situation.
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this swing is yuge for undoing the gerrymandering fuckery Republicans threw down after 2010
If only there were a way for the gop to energize its base and try to save as much face as humanly possible going into the next year.... and here comes the impeachment talks.
Just You Watch.
your patience will be rewarded.
The GOP is in a VERY bad spot right now. If they actively distance themselves from Trump, they fire up the base that already hates them and risk losing in a primary. But if they stay aligned with Trump, they risk losing in the general.
I wish I could say I pity them, but......you fuckers dug your own graves, now you sit in them, you fuckers.
to be fair though, we were saying this the weeks before the 2016 election and ....
great start, lets keep it up!
cautious optimism, though a significant difference between now and last year is the populace at large has seen Trump actually holding office and what that has meant and what that has stirred up
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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to be fair though, we were saying this the weeks before the 2016 election and ....
great start, lets keep it up!
cautious optimism, though a significant difference between now and last year is the populace at large has seen Trump actually holding office and what that has meant and what that has stirred up
I like Ezra Klein's description of why it all blew up in Gillespie's face
The reason, I suspect, is that Bannon had it exactly backward. The age of Trumpism without Trump isn’t ahead of us. It’s behind us, at least for now. Trumpism without Trump was possible before Trump was president. It might be possible after he’s president. It’s not possible while he’s president.
In 2016, Trump had the advantage of being a true outsider: He had no record to answer for, no unemployment rate to explain, no votes to justify. For all his oddities and eccentricities, he was a blank slate — a businessman to those who wanted a businessman, a culture warrior to those who wanted a culture warrior, a pragmatist to those who wanted a pragmatist, a conservative to those who wanted a conservative, and so on. He was theory severed from practice; “ism” without the reality check of is.
But now we have Trumpism with Trump, and the American people don’t much like it. Trump is no longer an abstraction, Trumpism no longer an idea. Instead, we are watching the real thing: a White House in chaos, a legislative agenda in shambles, a world in which nuclear war is likelier and America’s global leadership is diminished. Trump isn’t merely unpopular; he is less popular than any president at this point in their term since the advent of modern polling, and he is that unpopular even though the economy is growing and Americans are not dying in large numbers overseas.
If only there were a way for the gop to energize its base and try to save as much face as humanly possible going into the next year.... and here comes the impeachment talks.
Just You Watch.
your patience will be rewarded.
The GOP is in a VERY bad spot right now. If they actively distance themselves from Trump, they fire up the base that already hates them and risk losing in a primary. But if they stay aligned with Trump, they risk losing in the general.
I wish I could say I pity them, but......you fuckers dug your own graves, now you sit in them, you fuckers.
They dug them, and they're now balancing on a tightrope high above them. The national GOP has been artificially staving off the demographic shift with their redistricting. If Dems are allowed to redraw the lines and breakup their strongholds, not to mention create new strongholds of their own, that's potebtially going to be a long hard fall.
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I was reading about some of the other races, like for lieutenant governor. Saw the pictures of the candidates, thought, "wait they seem familiar" and remembered this:
There's so much terrible crap that it's hard to remember everything, hold all that awfulness in mind, but I guess Virginia voters did, and kept out the racist reactionary. Good for Fairfax, and good for Virginia.
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Ed Gillespie, thy nickname is "speed bump".
The best way to inspire loyalty is to avoid all responsibility and throw people under the bus.
The special elections
To replace Cabinet members in hard right seats that saw Republican support collapse, just not collapsing enough.
Moral victories never taste as sweet as this.
Rumor is that she and her people are panicking. Sounds like tonight's result just swept out a bunch of local elected republicans that they wanted to use in their campaign infrastructure for next year. I wonder if she'll be someone to watch on tax reform because I'm pretty sure this forces her into a far more difficult position to treat upon, if she decides to run again (always possible she decides to retire).
Big take away stuff so far going into future elections. This puts the democrats in a better position to start building up a team for higher offices. It also eats into the GOP's war chest going forward because any guy they had that lost or any open seat they couldn't retain, is a seat they can use to boost their campaigns elsewhere (not just in VA, but nationwide). Also with the pickups, the Democrats will be in a much better position to be in control of the House of Delegates after 2019. Granted with Northam and Fairfax winning tonight, the GOP is forced to abandon any ideas of gerrymandering VA's electoral college to benefit them in 2020.
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
But he failed, hence his date with a Greyhound.
Huh. So that's what schadenfreude sounds like.
Gonna be close
Some really open blatant racism anyway
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i am super fucking proud of my state right now
gonna sleep well tonight and get back to work on the next step tomorrow with wind in my fucking sails
Alec MacGillis is a writer for ProPublica.
Alt-right's already turned on Gillespie too. Trump can't fail, he can only be failed.
Yes Santa Claus there is a Virginia
(I mean there's a decent chance)
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[sarcasm]Yeah he wasn't bigoted enough.[/sarcasm]
The whip (and projected majority leader) lost too
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It definitely feels nice to finally append a "YEAH" to the customary "FUCK"
Hooray VA!
I particularly liked "Sale of Mixed Alcoholic Beverages (FRANKLIN COUNTY)" which won by over 50 points! I mean, that's due to small sample size (69-22), but it still counts! Also, the people of Wise County got rid of Sunday restrictions on booze purchases. So yay for alcoholism?
I'm surprised that some fairly hefty bond measures for schooling were determined by incredibly small numbers of total voters. Pulaski County, $47M passed, with barely 10K voters total. Falls Church $120M (rejected) and Lee County $47M (rejected), both with less than that. That's a lot of potential money being swung by a small voter base. At least with similar referendums in Fairfax and Loudoun there were 100K+ voters.
Removing someone from the voter rolls for having the same or similar name to that of a convicted felon? Protection against voter fraud.
Requiring stringent ID requirements that disproportionately disenfranchise people of one party? Protection against voter fraud.
Investigating people intentionally trying to tamper with an election results via turnout manipulation? Meh. Whatever. That's not important.
Fuck off, you partisan hacks.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Virginia.gov Dillwyn Election Results
there was literally no one on their ballots and all four were write-in candidates
Just You Watch.
your patience will be rewarded.
VA House Dems supports the party that picked up 16 seats so far in the HoD
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The fundraising never ends
lol though on the $17 suggested donation. $17 for a 17 member sweep and a HoD majority. Cute.
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Goodness, a tie in the Virginia house. The size of the Democratic vote to achieve that must be a swing which would turn Alabama blue! Ha, I kept on saying that the elephant in the room for Trump was that 2016, where he lost the popular vote by millions, and they lost seats in the house and Senate was a republican wave election. Just that their base is small enough now that it was still a tight race. If we can get a democratic wave in 2018 and the republican one fades, we could be looking at a truly amazing situation.
OneVirginia is a non-profit promoting redistricting reform in the Commonwealth
this swing is yuge for undoing the gerrymandering fuckery Republicans threw down after 2010
The GOP is in a VERY bad spot right now. If they actively distance themselves from Trump, they fire up the base that already hates them and risk losing in a primary. But if they stay aligned with Trump, they risk losing in the general.
I wish I could say I pity them, but......you fuckers dug your own graves, now you sit in them, you fuckers.
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great start, lets keep it up!
cautious optimism, though a significant difference between now and last year is the populace at large has seen Trump actually holding office and what that has meant and what that has stirred up
I like Ezra Klein's description of why it all blew up in Gillespie's face
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/7/16621994/ed-gillespie-ralph-northam-va-gov-trump
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They dug them, and they're now balancing on a tightrope high above them. The national GOP has been artificially staving off the demographic shift with their redistricting. If Dems are allowed to redraw the lines and breakup their strongholds, not to mention create new strongholds of their own, that's potebtially going to be a long hard fall.
There's so much terrible crap that it's hard to remember everything, hold all that awfulness in mind, but I guess Virginia voters did, and kept out the racist reactionary. Good for Fairfax, and good for Virginia.