2021 VA Governors race

[Anonymous]

Wow - 15 minutes after poll closing:

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Anonymous wrote:Wow - 15 minutes after poll closing:

Like it was going to go any other way. Literally no suspense.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest winner tonight is Northam.

Agree.

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This is pretty interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest winner tonight is Northam.

Agree.

+1 and I’d have to assume if Terry wins the general and is even moderately popular at the end of 4 years, that he’ll be the kingmaker for the next D primary.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats are already worried about November as several campaigns tell me that turnout this morning is very low across the state.

Which Democrats are worried? Turnout was a bit below 2017 and a bit above 2009. Not earth-shattering.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats are already worried about November as several campaigns tell me that turnout this morning is very low across the state.

Which Democrats are worried? Turnout was a bit below 2017 and a bit above 2009. Not earth-shattering.

It’s not going to be hard to get Democrats to vote in the general due to Youngkin needing to be Big Lie curious to be nominated.

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Anonymous wrote:The past year has been an eye-opener in terms of the extremism in both parties. January 6th was an affront to our republic, but it’s the local Democrats who made parents’ lives miserable for a solid year and pander incessantly to groups who’d confiscate the savings of families if they could to further their radical agenda.

It is unbelievable to me that you equate virtual learning during a pandemic to a violent attack on the seat of our democracy.

Republicans are against democracy. A vote for a Republican is a vote against our democracy. Beyond trump and the national Republicans whitewashing the national 1/6 attack, you have Republican led states conducting “audits” of a legitimate election and passing laws that allow legislators to overrule county election officials’ vote counts.

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+100

The gop is literally delusional at this point.

Vote them out.

The Democrats run everything in Virginia at this point. And we're all paying the price for their pandering.

We need more balance, especially at the state and local level.

I’m curious to know what price it is that you think we’re paying

The largest price I paid that I am aware of was no in person school option until March this year and that was a very heavy price.

+1. The damage Democrats are causing to public education needs to be stopped.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me how Hala Ayala voted on SB1303? Didn’t that also have to pass the House? Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats are already worried about November as several campaigns tell me that turnout this morning is very low across the state.

Which Democrats are worried? Turnout was a bit below 2017 and a bit above 2009. Not earth-shattering.

What does primary turnout have to do with enthusiasm in November? Plenty of folks are damn sure to vote D in the fall even if they didn’t have an opinion in the primary.

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It looks like she voted yes on it if I’m reading it correctly

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats are already worried about November as several campaigns tell me that turnout this morning is very low across the state.

Which Democrats are worried? Turnout was a bit below 2017 and a bit above 2009. Not earth-shattering.

It’s not going to be hard to get Democrats to vote in the general due to Youngkin needing to be Big Lie curious to be nominated.

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“So it’ll be former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) versus Glenn Youngkin (R) for the Virginia governorship this fall. We continue to rate the race to replace outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) as Leans Democratic. McAuliffe is favored, but not overwhelmingly so.

Youngkin has a path, although he’ll have to simultaneously appeal to hard-core Donald Trump voters as well as lapsed Republicans who have voted Democratic in recent years. A significant factor for the fall is one over which neither candidate has control: perceptions of President Joe Biden. If Biden’s modest honeymoon continues, and his approval rating remains over 50%, Youngkin may struggle to make the case against McAuliffe and continuing Democratic control of Richmond. But if there’s some downtick for Biden, that could threaten McAuliffe. The former governor won his first term in 2013 even amidst trouble for national Democrats -- Barack Obama’s approval was underwater at the time of the election amid negative stories about the rollout of the website for Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act -- but McAuliffe also only narrowly escaped against a hard-right challenger, then-state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R).”
http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=561522&f=3715&s=3894&m=765021&t=9554aef5a8e483adf9065b27733a5acc4cb158afd050d45a320b8bba2e4a19a0

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone tell me how Hala Ayala voted on SB1303? Didn’t that also have to pass the House? Thanks.

She voted yes. Chap Petersen endorsed her in large part for that reason.

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Not so sure. There were three Black men and women running in the D primary for Governor (Fairfax, McClellan and Carroll-Foy) and the party went ahead and nominated a rich old white guy (McAuliffe). Could readily imagine a scenario where Black voters sit this one out given that Youngkin is also a rich white guy. Haya Ayala, who variously seems to hold herself out as Lebanese, Hispanic, Irish, and Black, will have a hard time convincing Black voters she's got their back.