“A poll of 800 likely Virginia voters shows a tight race for party control of the General Assembly, which is currently split between Democrats controlling the state Senate and a Republican majority in the House of Delegates. According to results released Tuesday by Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Civic Leadership, 42% of respondents say they intend to vote for the Democratic candidate in their district, while 41% say they plan to vote for the Republican.”
https://www.virginiabusiness.com/article/cnu-poll-shows-tight-race-for-ga-control/

Anonymous wrote:Been volunteering the last month and most people are concerned with GOP extremism (mainly abortion), lack of gun safety regulation, and climate. I don't see GOP on the right side of these issues. In Northern VA, the US House speaker race is making GOP look disfunctional. We'd prefer more early voters but most ppl want to vote on Election Day.

I presume that you are canvassing largely Democratic areas, because these are Democratic priorities. Also, if people are not motivated to vote early, it is not a good sign for turnout and turnout is what is going to be the decider.

I’m sorry but if the R’s push through a complete ban it won’t last long at all.

I’m voting R this year and it feels weird. The local Dem officials think they can govern incompetently with 0 impunity

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

I wouldn’t say abortion is a non-issue, but I agree that crime is an important issue. I would like for my county to continue to not be a crime-infested hellhole, so my vote for our local officials generally is going to the Rs. And quite frankly, I don’t think VA is a state that will ever have a 6 week abortion ban so abortion is lower on my voting priority list.

+100

+200. Voting R for the first time ever. Still finding that difficult to type but here we are.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

It’s so interesting to me that Trump was the only president to preside over rising crime rates in 50 years and Democrats get the blame for it.

At the local level during the Trump years there were numerous “progressive” DAs elected, along with the “defund the police” movement, and unsurprisingly many of those same cities then started seeing surges in crime. I am not a Trumper, but he is not responsible for the current state of crime locally or nationally.

This. Anyone with even a shred of common sense would acknowledge those facts. Not to mention, the summer of 2020, riots and vandalism.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

I wouldn’t say abortion is a non-issue, but I agree that crime is an important issue. I would like for my county to continue to not be a crime-infested hellhole, so my vote for our local officials generally is going to the Rs. And quite frankly, I don’t think VA is a state that will ever have a 6 week abortion ban so abortion is lower on my voting priority list.

+100

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/27/murder-rate-high-trump-republican-states

“ The murder rates in Trump-voting states from 2020 have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000, according to a new analysis by ThirdWay, a center-left think tank.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3274797-we-have-a-murder-problem-in-america-especially-in-red-states/amp/

“ media coverage is essentially mum about Lexington, Kentucky, which has set back-to-back murder records, has a homicide rate twice that of New York City and has a Republican mayor. Tulsa and Oklahoma City have Republican mayors, a Republican governor and murder rates that dwarf that of Los Angeles. Jacksonville was the murder capital of Florida in 2020 with its Republican mayor, governor and a stratospheric homicide rate that if it were matched in New York City would’ve added more than 1,000 murders that year.

And to top it off, the homicide rate in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) San Francisco was half that of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) Bakersfield, the largest city in Kern County and one with a Republican mayor — with overwhelming Trump support and not a whiff of flirtation with defund the police movements. In fact, the murder capital of California for six years running is sleepy Kern County, 130 miles from Los Angeles and 306 miles from San Francisco, the two California locales most often associated with the crime-is-out-of-control national headlines that have dominated U.S. crime and political coverage.”

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

It’s so interesting to me that Trump was the only president to preside over rising crime rates in 50 years and Democrats get the blame for it.

At the local level during the Trump years there were numerous “progressive” DAs elected, along with the “defund the police” movement, and unsurprisingly many of those same cities then started seeing surges in crime. I am not a Trumper, but he is not responsible for the current state of crime locally or nationally.

Crime also rose in places that did not defund the police (hardly any places actually did) and did not elect “progressive” DAs.

Where was that? Which places?

Most red states.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

It’s so interesting to me that Trump was the only president to preside over rising crime rates in 50 years and Democrats get the blame for it.

At the local level during the Trump years there were numerous “progressive” DAs elected, along with the “defund the police” movement, and unsurprisingly many of those same cities then started seeing surges in crime. I am not a Trumper, but he is not responsible for the current state of crime locally or nationally.

Crime also rose in places that did not defund the police (hardly any places actually did) and did not elect “progressive” DAs.

Where was that? Which places?

Been volunteering the last month and most people are concerned with GOP extremism (mainly abortion), lack of gun safety regulation, and climate. I don't see GOP on the right side of these issues. In Northern VA, the US House speaker race is making GOP look disfunctional. We'd prefer more early voters but most ppl want to vote on Election Day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares about abortion. Non issue. I care more about attacking crime which the Democrats have utterly failed at across the board in this country.

It’s so interesting to me that Trump was the only president to preside over rising crime rates in 50 years and Democrats get the blame for it.

At the local level during the Trump years there were numerous “progressive” DAs elected, along with the “defund the police” movement, and unsurprisingly many of those same cities then started seeing surges in crime. I am not a Trumper, but he is not responsible for the current state of crime locally or nationally.

Crime also rose in places that did not defund the police (hardly any places actually did) and did not elect “progressive” DAs.

Anonymous wrote:Where are the quotes from? I want to read more about these statements. Tysm

And here is Youngkin saying that he can't be truthful during elections.

Anonymous wrote:Where are the quotes from? I want to read more about these statements. Tysm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/29/youngkin-abortion-life-conception/

Gov. Glenn Youngkin said this week he believes life begins at conception and vowed to sign “any bill … to protect life” that reaches his desk, expressing more ambitious antiabortion goals than he set out last year on the campaign trail or expects to pull off in the next legislative session.

In remarks to conservative activists Tuesday night, Youngkin (R) indicated that if the political landscape shifts in Richmond, he would like to rein in abortion rights beyond what he is seeking now — a ban on most abortions after 15 or 20 weeks of pregnancy.

“Any bill that comes to my desk I will sign happily and gleefully in order to protect life,” he said in an online forum organized by the Family Foundation of Virginia to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.