Complacent democrat here. What policies will youngkin advance?

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Anonymous wrote:Poor students kept in failing public schools as their only option needs to change.
I am looking forward to school choice and am excited the low income students can finally have OPTIONS!

Vouchers don’t give low income students options. They give middle class students options to get away from low income students.

Some low-income kids may benefit if their parents are informed and the kid can actually get a seat. But most won’t. Certainly not the SN kids.

Vouchers typically don’t cover the full cost of private school, except for crappy pop-up private schools that open just to get voucher money and provide only bare-bones education. Low-income families typically can’t afford to pay more than they voucher amount for good private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Did he actually win? The margin decreases by the hour and more postmarked ballots may arrive by Friday. Too soon to call it. Seriously.

Are you suggesting someone should scour post offices for votes?

Count all the votes is a good start but I don't think more are really coming in. I only say count all the votes because it's the law and Youngkins ran on protecting the constitution.

Terry needs to keep fighting here.

This is far from over.

More ballots to be counted today, I think. We shall see.

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I never knew a single Republican in northern Virginia. So sorry, still not seeing how Glenn won.

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In all seriousness, at the end of the day, Youngkin may only win, if he wins at all, by 20,000. I feel like a lonely voice in the wilderness here. Official state election results show several precincts outstanding. And how would properly postmarked ballots that arrive today not break overwhelmingly for Terry?

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Anonymous wrote:In all seriousness, at the end of the day, Youngkin may only win, if he wins at all, by 20,000. I feel like a lonely voice in the wilderness here. Official state election results show several precincts outstanding. And how would properly postmarked ballots that arrive today not break overwhelmingly for Terry?

Probably not 20k of them.

It sucks big time but it will be ok.

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe: the arc is a long one, [and] my eye reaches but a little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; … But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
~ Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Unitarian Minister

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Anonymous wrote:In all seriousness, at the end of the day, Youngkin may only win, if he wins at all, by 20,000. I feel like a lonely voice in the wilderness here. Official state election results show several precincts outstanding. And how would properly postmarked ballots that arrive today not break overwhelmingly for Terry?

Probably not 20k of them.

It sucks big time but it will be ok.

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe: the arc is a long one, [and] my eye reaches but a little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; … But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
~ Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Unitarian Minister

It bends toward progressive policies, that’s for sure. If indeed Youngkin has won, we progressives will be back soon enough.

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Anonymous wrote:In all seriousness, at the end of the day, Youngkin may only win, if he wins at all, by 20,000. I feel like a lonely voice in the wilderness here. Official state election results show several precincts outstanding. And how would properly postmarked ballots that arrive today not break overwhelmingly for Terry?

I know 4 people who voted by mail and all 4 voted for Youngkin, so it may not break the way you're thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:We will be like TX with abortion bounties

Ugh. We will not. The State Senate is still controlled by the Dems. There's not going to be any extreme abortion bills. And if there are, the backlash will surface in the next election cycle.

At least one of those Dems sides with Rs on abortion.

The specific claim is we will have an abortion bounty law like Texas. I welcome VA Republicans enacting that and making VA truly blue.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like, other than education which he used to get elected, he's not really into culture wars. He was caught on tape saying he favored a 20week abortion ban. I think that's stupid and it should be based on fetal viability, not a blanket assumption as to when a fetus feels pain, but that's only four weeks less than now.

I am more concerned about his gun control views. He was not clear about them during the debates. Or at all, really, which is unfortunate because he may turn out to be a fking loon about guns and a lot of so-called "moderates" may feel bad.

Well we wouldn’t want to rip the unborn apart unless they could feel pain right?

Many of these "abortion ban's" force women to carry a non-viable fetus to term and have them die upon birth which is horrifying.

No, that isn't horrifying, although it is sad. Horrifying is killing the baby in a painful way and then delivering it in pieces because people can't face disability and death. I have two friends who took profoundly disabled babies to term and it was a spiritual time for their family as they held the baby and sang to it for a few hours before he/she died.

It is also horrifying how you objectify these babies as "non-viable fetuses." Over twenty-four weeks, just suck it up and deliver the baby.

I'm happy your friends made the choice that was best for them. My friend chose to terminate a pregnancy after the child was diagnosed with the same severe physical disability their younger child already had, but it would have been more severe. They decided as a family, based on their experience, to terminate the pregnancy. There was grief in that too.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia has a 24 week ban on abortions?

Kathy Tran put up a bill to legalize abotion through post birth. Basically she is on tape saying her bill would allow abortion through crowning and if a baby survived and abortion, to allow it to be set aside to die slowly.

That legalized infanticide bill did not pass.

Do you imagine that Democrats are wanting to go around killing healthy babies as they are being born? Does that sound right to you? Do you look at the people in the grocery store and think that’s what they want? This should be a signal to you that you’re no longer in the realm of reality.

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like, other than education which he used to get elected, he's not really into culture wars. He was caught on tape saying he favored a 20week abortion ban. I think that's stupid and it should be based on fetal viability, not a blanket assumption as to when a fetus feels pain, but that's only four weeks less than now.

I am more concerned about his gun control views. He was not clear about them during the debates. Or at all, really, which is unfortunate because he may turn out to be a fking loon about guns and a lot of so-called "moderates" may feel bad.

Well we wouldn’t want to rip the unborn apart unless they could feel pain right?

Many of these "abortion ban's" force women to carry a non-viable fetus to term and have them die upon birth which is horrifying.

She doesn't care. She also doesn't care about the child once it's born other than forcing her religious views on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor students kept in failing public schools as their only option needs to change.
I am looking forward to school choice and am excited the low income students can finally have OPTIONS!

Vouchers don’t give low income students options. They give middle class students options to get away from low income students.

Some low-income kids may benefit if their parents are informed and the kid can actually get a seat. But most won’t. Certainly not the SN kids.

Vouchers typically don’t cover the full cost of private school, except for crappy pop-up private schools that open just to get voucher money and provide only bare-bones education. Low-income families typically can’t afford to pay more than they voucher amount for good private schools.

Low income kids usually get their costs covered. It is the middle class who must come up with the difference and a lot of times can't because the rich can afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like, other than education which he used to get elected, he's not really into culture wars. He was caught on tape saying he favored a 20week abortion ban. I think that's stupid and it should be based on fetal viability, not a blanket assumption as to when a fetus feels pain, but that's only four weeks less than now.

I am more concerned about his gun control views. He was not clear about them during the debates. Or at all, really, which is unfortunate because he may turn out to be a fking loon about guns and a lot of so-called "moderates" may feel bad.

Well we wouldn’t want to rip the unborn apart unless they could feel pain right?

Many of these "abortion ban's" force women to carry a non-viable fetus to term and have them die upon birth which is horrifying.

She doesn't care. She also doesn't care about the child once it's born other than forcing her religious views on it.

Yes, she says "F 'em" once the babies get here, she's not paying for welfare to feed and shelter you. But she will gladly pay for your jail time later in case you run afoul of the law. She be praying for you.

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I vote in VA and have since I was 18 (I'm 39 now) and I have always had to give my license to a volunteer for verification in order to vote. Where is this not a standard practice? I don't understand the issue with this as it has just be a normal thing for me.

In many states, you do not have to show ID. You just tell the poll worker who you are. One person(I think it was Project Veritas) told the poll worker they were Janet Reno(if it was Project Veritas then this was probably Eric Holder), and was given a ballot.

Also, IDs for absentee ballots are generally not required, and in some places they do signature verification. With a large volume of absentee ballots, the checks go out the door.

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I vote in VA and have since I was 18 (I'm 39 now) and I have always had to give my license to a volunteer for verification in order to vote. Where is this not a standard practice? I don't understand the issue with this as it has just be a normal thing for me.

In many states, you do not have to show ID. You just tell the poll worker who you are. One person(I think it was Project Veritas) told the poll worker they were Janet Reno(if it was Project Veritas then this was probably Eric Holder), and was given a ballot.

Also, IDs for absentee ballots are generally not required, and in some places they do signature verification. With a large volume of absentee ballots, the checks go out the door.

And was the ballot counted?