Consolidated VA Elections Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t pay attention to any of this crap. I pay attention to the ridiculous policies that have been pushed by the Virginia parties over the years, and I’m not seeing the party of the vaginal probe becoming more statesmanlike or mature, but instead doubling down on guns, misogyny, and Trump. McAuliffe may be a Democratic Clintonist hack, but he’ll veto all the dumb crap out of Richmond. Virginia also got better run overall during his las administration.

I can’t believe any of you base your voting decisions on PR stunts and manufactured outrage. I find it particularly ironic all the people who are clutching their pearls over a campaign ad but at the same time supported and voted for Trump - the biggest corrupt sleazeball ever.

It's as dumb as basing a vote on a vaginal probe. You are leaving out about 50% of the male voters who can't make their voting decisions based on a vaginal problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t pay attention to any of this crap. I pay attention to the ridiculous policies that have been pushed by the Virginia parties over the years, and I’m not seeing the party of the vaginal probe becoming more statesmanlike or mature, but instead doubling down on guns, misogyny, and Trump. McAuliffe may be a Democratic Clintonist hack, but he’ll veto all the dumb crap out of Richmond. Virginia also got better run overall during his las administration.

I can’t believe any of you base your voting decisions on PR stunts and manufactured outrage. I find it particularly ironic all the people who are clutching their pearls over a campaign ad but at the same time supported and voted for Trump - the biggest corrupt sleazeball ever.

It's as dumb as basing a vote on a vaginal probe. You are leaving out about 50% of the male voters who can't make their voting decisions based on a vaginal problem.

Even if you don’t have a vagina, you can have views on whether it’s okay to forced women to have vaginal probes in order to access certain types of health care. Just imagine a doctor requiring you to get an anal probe in order to get a vasectomy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Terry McAuliffe is perpetual slime. He's done every cheat trick in the book, and then some. Just disgusting. Honest Democrats are ashamed of his ongoing behavior.

Don’t care. I’d literally vote for Satan himself even if he promised to eat my firstborn the next day before I’d vote for a republican.

Well, if you vote for McAuliffe you basically are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

A lot of teachers in your school will lose their jobs when Youngkin puts vouchers in place and people flock to private schools.

Teacher here again. This is a common talking point and not true. Private schools in the area have always had long wait lists. There are not a large amount of openings for a mass exodus from public schools. What could happen in an ideal world? More privates and charters could open, creating competition and forcing public schools to turn attention back to academics. This is a pie in the sky dream.

None of us are worried about jobs. There is a huge teacher shortage everywhere. Most public schools still have open positions. That tells you something about the current state of schools. If more schools open, that means even more jobs.

Our parish elementary school added 5 classes during the pandemic. We were able to hire public school teachers who were fed up with APS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

Thank you for caring about VA kids. What foolish but we’ll-intentioned democrats are doing to schools is not ok!

Pray tell what are they “doing to schools?”

Real things, please. Not phantom menaces like CRT.

Reducing the rigor of math, science, reading, and writing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anymore Twitter accounts to follow?

From another PP:

John Couvillon is tracking early voting
Chaz Nuttycomb is a must follow for Virginia politics
and of course Dave Wasserman

I checked this morning and Couvillon says Dems are still trailing their usual EV turnout - 1 million early voters so far and 2.7 million total votes in 2017. Nuttycombe says the odds of Youngkin winning are '60% and no higher'. That seems pretty high to me?

Wasserman retweeted his May post:

No scandals will result in the R's winning. NOVA is so blue that D's across board will coast to victory.

Those Dems who don't align themselves with McAuliffe. I am voting a mixed ticket and pushing Terry aside.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t pay attention to any of this crap. I pay attention to the ridiculous policies that have been pushed by the Virginia parties over the years, and I’m not seeing the party of the vaginal probe becoming more statesmanlike or mature, but instead doubling down on guns, misogyny, and Trump. McAuliffe may be a Democratic Clintonist hack, but he’ll veto all the dumb crap out of Richmond. Virginia also got better run overall during his las administration.

I can’t believe any of you base your voting decisions on PR stunts and manufactured outrage. I find it particularly ironic all the people who are clutching their pearls over a campaign ad but at the same time supported and voted for Trump - the biggest corrupt sleazeball ever.

It's as dumb as basing a vote on a vaginal probe. You are leaving out about 50% of the male voters who can't make their voting decisions based on a vaginal problem.

So you base your vote solely and exclusively on the direct benefit to yourself of a given candidate? No consider of broader society, people other than yourself, etc.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huge crowd in Old Town this morning at 8:00 for Youngkin. Just FYI

Yep, I was there. And the flooding did not stop him!

[Anonymous]

Its really interesting how every Virginia race is a dead-heat. Has this ever happened before?

McAuliffe and Youngkin deadlocked in Virginia governor race; contests for lieutenant governor and attorney general also tied; Republican likely voters' enthusiasm advantage surges in October

Former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe has a razor-thin lead over Republican Glenn Youngkin, 49% to 48%, among likely voters, which is within the survey's margin of error (+/- 3.5%). In this virtual tie, third-party candidate Princess Blanding 1% share of the vote looms larger, with another 1% undecided.

Seeking a third term, Attorney General Mark Herring narrowly leads Republican Jason Miyares 48% to 47%, with 5% undecided.

For lieutenant governor, Democrat Hala Ayala has a 1-point lead over Republican Winsome Sears, 49% to 48%, with 4% undecided.

https://cnu.edu/wasoncenter/surveys/archive/2021-10-27.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Huge crowd in Old Town this morning at 8:00 for Youngkin. Just FYI

Are they gathering at Richard Spencer’s old place?

No, they blocked off the street at Burke & Herbert Bank on King Street. Spencer does not live near there, but Mark Warner and Don Beyer do. Warner made Justin take down Youngkin signs near his house, but Beyer was less thin skinned.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have the specifics of this -- how much per child, is it just a one-year thing, how is this sustainable if you use one-time relief aid to fund the first (and even second) year?

"Youngkin’s plan for the federal relief money also includes $1.2 billion to fund school choice initiatives."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have the specifics of this -- how much per child, is it just a one-year thing, how is this sustainable if you use one-time relief aid to fund the first (and even second) year?

"Youngkin’s plan for the federal relief money also includes $1.2 billion to fund school choice initiatives."

Youngkin has not provided any specifics that I am aware of, probably because when you actually get into the specifics of school choice, all of the specific options tend to be pretty unpopular. School choice sounds nice until you realize your child could be left out of the “choice” in favor of other students.

[Anonymous]

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I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.

signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.

Oh yeah? Where do you teach? In a public school system, or some kind of unaccredited bible-thumper private? I’m betting the latter based on your absurd post. It reads like typical anti-union trash talking points.


Union teachers are the only bulwark standing between society and the brainwashed spawn being raised and indoctrinated by their rightwing loon parents. If it weren’t for public school teachers offsetting all these idiot parents and their lunacy, we’d be up to our eyeballs in school age little fascists. Teachers are typically the only people exposing these kids to Progressive ideals and questioning the nonsense these children are being fed at home.

Assuming you aren't a troll, you are part of the problem. Many parents don't want teachers indoctrinating/pushing political ideologies in a public school classroom.

If you think teaching facts and kindness is a “political ideology” then private is probably a good choice for you.

Since when is it up to schools to “teach” kindness?

You do understand that those teaching now could not have been teacher's aides forty years ago. People teaching then were well educated with high IQs and could teach complex subjects. Those people have now gone into more challenging professions. This left less intelligent people for the teaching programs. The teachers in my child's former public school could not write or punctuate a declarative sentence. After a year of silliness, we decided that the staff was not capable of teaching our children. We left for a private school where teachers are well educated and well trained and can teach effectively.

[Anonymous]

You realize that McAuliffe has already been governor, right? This “socialist dystopia” that I’m seeing referenced to here didn’t happen. Virginia under the democratic governors has been a pretty well run state with reasonable taxes. Some of the things people are complaining about - permits, school things - are local elections. I made some non-D choices in my local elections, but for the state and federal, no way would I vote for what passes as the Republican Party today.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, the McAuliffe email spokeswoman flub happened on the same night - maybe she was so tired cleaning up the offspring's mess, she made a mistake of her own.