Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

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That's actually a really good video.

Still a laughably quixotic move.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Virginia and the Democratic Party will be much better off once he's officially out of office.

Definitely will not be — you should google the lady who's replacing him!

What's wrong with her? She seems pretty progressive from what I know so far.

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Add Carter to a growing list of DemSoc failures.

Update: 2.8% LMAO

The Biden Administration will be the death of the progressive left, for better or worse.

Carter's local DSA chapter declined to endorse him. His bid was a one-man vanity project.

Virginia and the Democratic Party will be much better off once he's officially out of office.

Definitely will not be — you should google the lady who's replacing him!

What's wrong with her? She seems pretty progressive from what I know so far.

She runs a "mindfulness-centered" leadership training firm. It doesn’t signal bad politics (though there’s certainly a correlation), but it’s the sort of cringey HR-ified cultural liberalism that this forum seems to dislike.

Eh, that's cringey but nothing on the level of what Lee has been like for the past year. Although it's kind of interesting how despite a somewhat thorough browsing of that site I still have no clue what they actually do.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Welp.

Lee Sharter has gone down. Let's hope that this is a sign of what's to come for Nina Turner in August, as well as for John Fetterman and The Squad in their primaries next year.

None of the people you are talking about are running a pointless vanity campaign for a higher office at the same time, and don't spend most of their free time engaging in silly Trump-esque feuds with blue checkmarked journalists as well as people who aren't notable for any reason aside from being extremely online on Twitter.

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The Dem state senator drawn into a narrow Trump district in the mountains (he's not a Blue Dog, it was formerly gerrymandered to connect college towns) just announced his retirement today.  Likely R+1, which would mean back to 21D/19R, but there's also a West Richmond seat Dems are about equally likely to flip, so sticking with my prediction that it stays 22D/18R

This ends the prospect of Dems becoming veto-proof in a wave.

I assume you mean Creigh Deeds? But I don’t see any news about him retiring?

He probably means John S. Edwards.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Just like New Jersey, this data is useless without knowing what districts the votes are coming in from. (And like New Jersey would probably be useless anyway.)

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https://twitter.com/L2political/status/1717932899880546788

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those numbers don't look great for Democrats...

You expect to be taken seriously saying something like this?

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How is party tracked anyway when Virginia has an open primary?

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Didn't she have some sort of scandal involving weak charges and/or covering a gang rape at a local high school?

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https://twitter.com/BruneElections/status/1724202870851903653

They're missing the ultra-conservative Patrick Henry College in Loudoun County, which definitely voted like Liberty (that said it's possible that because it's so small it doesn't have its own precinct to have this analysis)

It doesn't. In fact its precinct voted to the left of Purcellville overall, Biden got 46.5% there and just 45% in the entire city.