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| Virginia is now a solidly Blue Democratic state and here's WHY it happened… |
| 2019-11-07 |
| BLUF: [Washington Compost via Right Scoop] Federal judges have selected a Virginia House of Delegates redistricting map that appears to heavily favor Democrats, redrawing the lines of 26 districts and moving several powerful Republicans into unfavorable configurations. Six Republicans would wind up in districts where a majority of voters chose Democratic President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, according to an analysis of the maps by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. No current Democrats would see their voter majority change to Republican, based on those election results. If the court’s map selection stands, it would create a favorable environment for Democrats seeking to take control of the House of Delegates in elections this fall, according to the analysis. All 100 seats in the House are on the ballot, and Republicans hold a 51-to-48 majority. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 re #7: rj, just move the bureaucrats out to where they belong - Agriculture to Kansas, CIA to McMurdo, Antartica, etc, - and the problem will also be solved. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-11-07 14:54 |
| #8 For a majority-rule, 2-party electorate that's divided on a knife edge, a small swing will explain a large shift in partisan outcomes in any given year. But that's not evidence of a lasting realignment. Cases in point: 1992 swung the WH to the Dems, and 1994 swung the House to the GOP, then in 1996 the Dem POTUS was easily re-elected, then impeached, then the 2000 election was a tie. Rinse and repeat. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-07 12:47 |
| #7 I could be wrong but I thought most of the politicians and staff that worked in D.C. lived in the suburbs in Virginia. Cut the bureaucracy and the problem will diminish somewhat. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-11-07 10:01 |
| #6 California of the east coast. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-07 09:42 |
| #5 Also, Bloomberg put beaucoup $ to elect anti-gunners (AKA Democrats). |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-11-07 09:41 |
| #4 How many seats were not contested? Instapundit says it was a lot, like 1/2 of the seats. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-11-07 08:38 |
| #3 Dems outspent Rep by 3-1 in hard open money and also had lots of dark money as well as labor 'in kind' and the WaPo and big tech. Also a number of pro criminal county attorneys were elected (Soros contributions made this possible. Republicans did not contest in the heavily Dem districts in the Tidewater and center city Richmond. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-11-07 07:49 |
| #2 How many seats were not contested? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-07 07:04 |
| #1 Here I thought the reason was that the Virginia GOP a few election cycles ago backed RINOs and actively campaigned against conservatives who won primaries. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2019-11-07 06:05 |