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2019-11-07 Home Front: Politix

Virginia is now a solidly Blue Democratic state and here's WHY it happened…

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-07 01:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 How many seats were not contested?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-07 07:04|| 2019-11-07 07:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Also, Bloomberg put beaucoup $ to elect anti-gunners (AKA Democrats).

Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-07 09:41|| 2019-11-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 California of the east coast.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 09:42|| 2019-11-07 09:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 10:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 12:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-11-07 14:54|| Front Page Top

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