2021 VA Governors race

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Anonymous wrote:Biden’s approval rating would be a lot higher if Republicans in Congress had any interest in doing their job. Their only goal is obstructing the work and appointing judges. They won’t even agree to raise the debt ceiling to cover Trump’s spending.

Regardless, I don’t care about his rating for the VA election. Youngkin is fully in on trump’s plan to eliminate the integrity of our elections. Youngkin is fully in on stoking and fueling culture wars that are promoted in right wing media.

He is all wrong for VA and i hope Democrats turn out and Independents think of all the big issues at stake in protecting our democracy and our civility.

Why are there no Republicans who will stand up for voting rights? The old Republican party had no problem reauthorizing federal voting rights bills. Why are there no Republicans who will stand against climate change? Why do they refuse to govern and avoid helping solve the country’s problems?

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Anonymous wrote:Biden's consensus approval rating has been sliding and is now at 43.5%. That's can't be good for McAuliffe as Election Day approaches, especially since one of the main reasons for Biden's sliding ratings - an inability to get "big" things done that he promised to pull off and a tolerance for left-wing nonsense - is also McAuliffe's only argument for another term and his own soft spot. It's not like he's likable at all or has a compelling personal story.

But see, I'm a normal average joe voter who doesn't keep up with things like approval ratings. If I hadn't read it here, I never would have known. Also, most normal average joes vote along party lines pretty strictly.

Biden's rating could be 25% and I would still never vote Youngkin over McAuliffe.

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That would be your choice. But Youngkin's rising support is correlated with Biden's declining ratings, and the decline in Biden's support seems to reflect concerns over Biden's inability to get things done.

Since McAuliffe's main pitch as a candidate isn't that he has a fresh vision or is a unifier (he clearly is not the latter, and his campaign surrogates are Lee Atwater-level nasty), but that he has experience and can get things done, Biden's challenges drag down McAuliffe.

I will 100% take “experienced and can get things done”.

Certainly, I’ll take that over over the party spreading lies/misinformation and also trying to throw out election results without any evidence of fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people "disapproving" of Biden are people on the left who don't think he's doing enough to go after the 1/6 perpetrators or forcing through a bigger budget bill. There's also those who hoped moderate Biden would cause the GOP to become normal again & compromise to reach middle positions, but that hasn't happened so they are disappointed.

I don't think a "43.5% approval" rating tells you the whole story. You need to look at why they disapprove and I bet a sizeable chunk of the "disapprove" is from folks who don't believe Biden has done enough.

Or, you could take a much shorter route and look at his approval by party identification.

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Looking at these folks turned out at these big ‘mo (yeah, right) Youngkin rallies in nova, it’s like a reunion of some generic nova high school’s class of ‘86.

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Anonymous wrote:Biden’s approval rating would be a lot higher if Republicans in Congress had any interest in doing their job. Their only goal is obstructing the work and appointing judges. They won’t even agree to raise the debt ceiling to cover Trump’s spending.

Regardless, I don’t care about his rating for the VA election. Youngkin is fully in on trump’s plan to eliminate the integrity of our elections. Youngkin is fully in on stoking and fueling culture wars that are promoted in right wing media.

He is all wrong for VA and i hope Democrats turn out and Independents think of all the big issues at stake in protecting our democracy and our civility.

Why are there no Republicans who will stand up for voting rights? The old Republican party had no problem reauthorizing federal voting rights bills. Why are there no Republicans who will stand against climate change? Why do they refuse to govern and avoid helping solve the country’s problems?

The sooner people acknowledge that the GOP officially ceased being a political party and became a crime syndicate around the time that they acknowledged that their members were on the take from Russia (“That’s how we know we’re a family”), the sooner we can put the GOP into the grave and hopefully resurrect some 1950s Republicans, about the last time they were sane.

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Anonymous wrote:Biden's consensus approval rating has been sliding and is now at 43.5%. That's can't be good for McAuliffe as Election Day approaches, especially since one of the main reasons for Biden's sliding ratings - an inability to get "big" things done that he promised to pull off and a tolerance for left-wing nonsense - is also McAuliffe's only argument for another term and his own soft spot. It's not like he's likable at all or has a compelling personal story.

But see, I'm a normal average joe voter who doesn't keep up with things like approval ratings. If I hadn't read it here, I never would have known. Also, most normal average joes vote along party lines pretty strictly.

Biden's rating could be 25% and I would still never vote Youngkin over McAuliffe.

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No longer in the state, but I will never ever ever vote for a Republican again. They are too low, too stupid, too treasonous, too corrupt and too antidemocratic for me to ever fill in a circle for them again. And I used to be a Republican. Never again.

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(his campaign surrogates are Lee Atwater-level nasty)

Interested to hear who you’re referring to.

No, you're not, and if some of them were named they'd get the posts deleted in a hot second.

Oh yes I definitely am. Why would mentioning their names get posts deleted?

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest knock I see with McAuliffe is that anything wrong with Virginia now is his fault or Northams. He talks about Virginia teachers being paid lowest of all 50 states. Well, his team has been in charge for 8 years. Yes, Northam just passed a raise but what about the other 7 years. And crime is high. I don’t have a love for Youngkin but there are issues with Virginia that McAuliffe and Northam haven’t solved and they have been in charge.

No way vá teachers are lower paid than Kansas or Mississippi.

Is that true?

Just found this.

https://www.nbc12.com/2021/08/03/new-report-finds-virginia-teacher-pay-ranks-50th-country/

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Anonymous wrote:To respond to the other thread about Youngkin signs in Arlington. They are mostly all in the medians. AKA a handful of people put them up. It doesn’t mean anything.

Many of us support Younkin in Arlington but also realize that opponents will light our flags on fire, egg our house, tear up our sign and vandalize our property. Why make a target of ourselves and our family by the party that loves diversity intersectionality, but not diversity of thought. Many of my D friends have admitted they will be voting for Younkin this round - mostly based on school issues and the teacher's union only caring about teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest knock I see with McAuliffe is that anything wrong with Virginia now is his fault or Northams. He talks about Virginia teachers being paid lowest of all 50 states. Well, his team has been in charge for 8 years. Yes, Northam just passed a raise but what about the other 7 years. And crime is high. I don’t have a love for Youngkin but there are issues with Virginia that McAuliffe and Northam haven’t solved and they have been in charge.

No way vá teachers are lower paid than Kansas or Mississippi.

Is that true?

Just found this.

https://www.nbc12.com/2021/08/03/new-report-finds-virginia-teacher-pay-ranks-50th-country/

Yup.
https://www.business.org/hr/workforce-management/best-us-states-for-teachers/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Biden’s approval rating would be a lot higher if Republicans in Congress had any interest in doing their job. Their only goal is obstructing the work and appointing judges. They won’t even agree to raise the debt ceiling to cover Trump’s spending.

Regardless, I don’t care about his rating for the VA election. Youngkin is fully in on trump’s plan to eliminate the integrity of our elections. Youngkin is fully in on stoking and fueling culture wars that are promoted in right wing media.

He is all wrong for VA and i hope Democrats turn out and Independents think of all the big issues at stake in protecting our democracy and our civility.

Why are there no Republicans who will stand up for voting rights? The old Republican party had no problem reauthorizing federal voting rights bills. Why are there no Republicans who will stand against climate change? Why do they refuse to govern and avoid helping solve the country’s problems?

It's interesting that the Democrats on the FCPS School Board want to impose new identification requirements to speak at public meetings but similar ID requirements to vote, if supported by some Republicans, are viewed as disenfranchisement.

Your one-sided comments suggest it's people like you who are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Not voting for Glen Trumpkin. Not now, not ever.

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That is wonderful. Not everyone agrees with you. What a great country! Am I right?

It's not "right" to attack our democratic ideals.

How could any American support the GOP trying to throw out election results without any evidence of fraud?

I’d love to hear how Rs support this. How exactly do you rationalize it?

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Anonymous wrote:To respond to the other thread about Youngkin signs in Arlington. They are mostly all in the medians. AKA a handful of people put them up. It doesn’t mean anything.

Many of us support Younkin in Arlington but also realize that opponents will light our flags on fire, egg our house, tear up our sign and vandalize our property. Why make a target of ourselves and our family by the party that loves diversity intersectionality, but not diversity of thought. Many of my D friends have admitted they will be voting for Younkin this round - mostly based on school issues and the teacher's union only caring about teachers.

I've been surprised by how many Youngkin signs there are in Fairfax, despite all the reservations you expressed. Can't imagine what it's like in other parts of the state where people feel more able to express their views.

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Anonymous wrote:Biden's consensus approval rating has been sliding and is now at 43.5%. That's can't be good for McAuliffe as Election Day approaches, especially since one of the main reasons for Biden's sliding ratings - an inability to get "big" things done that he promised to pull off and a tolerance for left-wing nonsense - is also McAuliffe's only argument for another term and his own soft spot. It's not like he's likable at all or has a compelling personal story.

But see, I'm a normal average joe voter who doesn't keep up with things like approval ratings. If I hadn't read it here, I never would have known. Also, most normal average joes vote along party lines pretty strictly.

Biden's rating could be 25% and I would still never vote Youngkin over McAuliffe.

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No longer in the state, but I will never ever ever vote for a Republican again. They are too low, too stupid, too treasonous, too corrupt and too antidemocratic for me to ever fill in a circle for them again. And I used to be a Republican. Never again.

If you're no longer in the state, you may be less familiar with the fun stuff pushed by local Democrats in VA over the past two years that is pushing many long-time Democratic voters to vote for Youngkin this fall. The level of performative nonsense + utter hypocrisy is over the top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Biden's consensus approval rating has been sliding and is now at 43.5%. That's can't be good for McAuliffe as Election Day approaches, especially since one of the main reasons for Biden's sliding ratings - an inability to get "big" things done that he promised to pull off and a tolerance for left-wing nonsense - is also McAuliffe's only argument for another term and his own soft spot. It's not like he's likable at all or has a compelling personal story.

But see, I'm a normal average joe voter who doesn't keep up with things like approval ratings. If I hadn't read it here, I never would have known. Also, most normal average joes vote along party lines pretty strictly.

Biden's rating could be 25% and I would still never vote Youngkin over McAuliffe.

+1

+2

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No longer in the state, but I will never ever ever vote for a Republican again. They are too low, too stupid, too treasonous, too corrupt and too antidemocratic for me to ever fill in a circle for them again. And I used to be a Republican. Never again.

If you're no longer in the state, you may be less familiar with the fun stuff pushed by local Democrats in VA over the past two years that is pushing many long-time Democratic voters to vote for Youngkin this fall. The level of performative nonsense + utter hypocrisy is over the top.

And PP will be less familiar with the prolific lies that the GOP is pushing these days.