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In refreshing news, VA has elected it's first GOP Governor since the 2009 election. Glenn Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe, who had previously served as Governor from 2014-2018. McAuliffe was joined on the campaign trail by none other than Obama....but still fell short.

How did this happen? A year ago Virginians voted Biden in, by a wide margin. What exactly is going on? Is this a harbinger of things to come in 2022, or even 2024?
 
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Warp12 said:
In refreshing news, VA has elected it's first GOP Governor in 8 years. Glenn Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe, who had previously served as Governor from 2014-2018. McAuliffe was joined on the campaign trail by none other than Obama....but still fell short.

How did this happen? A year ago Virginians voted Biden in, by a wide margin. What exactly is going on? Is this a harbinger of things to come in 2022, or even 2024?
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People learned to stop worrying about the COVID hoax and focus on what really matters: CRT.
 
Warp12 said:
. What exactly is going on? Is this a harbinger of things to come in 2022, or even 2024?
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No. It shows that if say, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach" you'll loose an election. This is particularly true if you defend that statement by claiming its just racist dog whistling to ask the question in the first place. Although, if Dems keep doubling down on the least popular aspects of there ideas and this:

Cain said:
People learned to stop worrying about the COVID hoax and focus on what really matters: CRT.
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https://clarion.causeaction.com/202...ouch-moralizing-amid-big-election-night-loss/
 
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ahhell said:
No. It shows that if say, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach" you'll loose an election. This is particularly true if you defend that statement by claiming its just racist dog whistling to ask the question in the first place. Although, if Dems keep doubling down on the least popular aspects of there ideas and this:



https://clarion.causeaction.com/202...ouch-moralizing-amid-big-election-night-loss/
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What is shows is that the Democrats are largely reactive, politically speaking, and are too readily ceding the political initiative to the right. They have no strong ideas or popular policies of their own to trumpet, so they spend their time constantly on defense dealing with the right's new moral outrage of the day.

I'm sure the loss of a Clintonista and milquetoast dem to a right wing freak will be used as more evidence by the party that they are simply too progressive and they need to triangulate and moderate even more aggressively.
 
I lived in Virginia for decades. The state goes back and forth between D and R governors. Has for a long time, will continue for a long time. This should not be surprising to anyone.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I lived in Virginia for decades. The state goes back and forth between D and R governors. Has for a long time, will continue for a long time. This should not be surprising to anyone.
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Yeah but everything is either a red herring or a canary in the coal mind in politics.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I lived in Virginia for decades. The state goes back and forth between D and R governors. Has for a long time, will continue for a long time. This should not be surprising to anyone.
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And always the opposing party of the President in office.
 
Yeah Virginia, Florida, a few others tend to be these weird "counter-balance" states as often as not.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah but everything is either a red herring or a canary in the coal mind in politics.
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Right or wrong, both the Democratic and Republicans are likely to treat it this way. Expect to see more right wingers trying to emulate the winning campaign. Youngkin was notable for leaning hard on Trump style politics without invoking or associating with him directly. Trump may have some baggage, but Trumpism seems here to stay.

I have no idea how the Democrats are going to process this loss, but it's safe to say they'll claim progressive politics are to blame to some extent.
 
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Sam Levine Tweets:

Worth noting VA Dems repealed voter ID, enacted automatic voter reg, no-excuse mail-in voting, extended the ballot receipt deadline past election day, used executive action to get around lifetime ban for ppl with felonies. Turnout increased from 2017 and GOP won (1/2)
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All that cheating and they still couldn't win.
 
Cain said:
Sam Levine Tweets:

Worth noting VA Dems repealed voter ID, enacted automatic voter reg, no-excuse mail-in voting, extended the ballot receipt deadline past election day, used executive action to get around lifetime ban for ppl with felonies. Turnout increased from 2017 and GOP won (1/2)
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All that cheating and they still couldn't win.
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I wouldn’t call it cheating, lol, but they certainly wouldn't be lobbying for any of that if they thought it would give Republican candidates an edge. I guess it didn't have the consequences they were hoping for, this time. Maybe better luck next time out. :thumbsup:
 
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TragicMonkey said:
I lived in Virginia for decades. The state goes back and forth between D and R governors. Has for a long time, will continue for a long time. This should not be surprising to anyone.
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Agreed,
If it's any comfort to people, one reason the GOP candidate won is that he distinced himself from Trump as much as he could without alienating the Trump voters.
 
Warp12 said:
I wouldn’t call it cheating, lol, but they certainly wouldn't be lobbying for any of that if they thought it would give Republican candidates an edge. I guess it didn't have the consequences they were hoping for, this time. Maybe better luck next time out. :thumbsup:
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Nonsense. They do all those things to further the democratic process so that the majority of the populace can determine what happens in governance.

The GOP, however, does the opposite because they want white-minority rule.
 
Cain said:
Sam Levine Tweets:

All that cheating and they still couldn't win.
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Warp12 said:
I wouldn’t call it cheating, lol, but they certainly wouldn't be lobbying for any of that if they thought it would give Republican candidates an edge. I guess it didn't have the consequences they were hoping for, this time. Maybe better luck next time out. :thumbsup:
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You've been Cained. We know of no cheating.

Just like we know of no cheating in 2020.
 
acbytesla said:
You've been Cained. We know of no cheating.

Just like we know of no cheating in 2020.
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Incorrect. The statement was obviously made in jest, which is why I "lol'd" it. It isn't "cheating", but it isn't based upon Dems being virtuous, either.
 
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ahhell said:
No. It shows that if say, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach" you'll loose an election. This is particularly true if you defend that statement by claiming its just racist dog whistling to ask the question in the first place. Although, if Dems keep doubling down on the least popular aspects of there ideas and this:
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The background is that in 2013 a Repub activist claimed to be outraged that Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Beloved" was required reading in her 18-year-old son's AP literature class. The Repub legislature passed two bills that would have allowed parents to disapprove the books their kids could be assigned, and as governor McAuliffe vetoed them. That same mother made indignant campaign ads for Youngkin about how terribly hurt her "child" had been. The Repubs made it sound like pornography was being promoted in kindergarten. It all ties together with Youngkin's promise to remove Critical Race Theory from the schools, where nothing like it has never been taught in the first place.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/virginia-toni-morrison-beloved-mcauliffe-youngkin/index.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mom-...-glenn-youngkin-ad_n_6177036fe4b010d933149661

McAuliffe probably should have signed the bills and picked a different battle, but he said they were too broad and intrusive on the schools. In the debate, I wish he had expressed the same idea with something like "I won't allow parents with an agenda to rip books out of our school libraries." But it really is racial dogwhistling, part of the culture wars that encourage right-wing whites to believe that they are about be run over by evil black and brown hordes.

Don't forget that Virginia, capital of the Confederacy, promoted "massive resistance" to Brown v. Board and tried to close all its public schools rather than integrate. Despite urban and urbane Northern Virginia, there are deep wells of undisguised racism in the state.
 
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I saw a thumbnail from the Fox News YouTube channel claiming that Democrats are having a meltdown over the election. Is anyone here having a meltdown? Anyone?
 
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