Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

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Wow it's election day!

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Where are the Exit Polls?

Biden is 43% approval in the exits. Trump is 41% approval. Economy is top issues for voters at 33%.

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Important to note, McAuliffe had similar numbers in 2013 and won.

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McAuliffe up 12.

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Oh now down 20, lol.

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McAuliffe down 2 now, closing an 18 point gap.

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McAuliffe down 2 now, closing an 18 point gap.

Do you mean the exit poll favorability?

Results.

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McAuliffe up 17 now.

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McAuliffe up 17 now.

Youngkin +11 per NyT. (435,000 votes)

They're behind, but it's M+5 now.

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Where do you look?

https://elections-daily.com/2021/11/02/virginia-election-results/

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McAuliffe down 8 now.

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McAuliffe down 10.

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So for my Atlas peeps who were politically aware at the time (instead of being a dumb 15-year old who was more concerned with how skinny her jeans were...):

How does this compare to, say, Scott Brown's special election upset in Massachusetts? I do recall commentators heralding that as a pure rejection of Obama (as many will likely say this was a rejection of Biden).  

That was part of it but also because Coakley thought she didn't have to campaign and all and would just win because MA, and voters didn't appreciate that.

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The networks haven't called it.

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Ok, wait: MSNBC says that there's still a significant number of absentee votes out that have yet to be counted & could have an impact on the race, but all of the media organizations have already called it. It can't possibly flip back... right?

As far as I can tell everybody here gave up when Wasserman called it. I kind of did too because I figured the networks would be right behind, but it's been a while now.

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Quick question....

Any intelligent poster here know how Virginia counts Provisional Votes?

Are they included in the initial results, set aside to be counted later, etc....?

Since nobody responded.... here is a follow-up question as someone who has lived in an exclusively VbM state for many years:

How does VA have ballot drop box locations staged?

For example: We voted today in OR and because my wife was working and the only thing on our ballot was an initiative to add $$$ for the local Sheriff's department, we weren't pressed to vote early and my wife dropped them off at a ballot box in the neighboring county.

Naturally these votes would not be included in the initial returns but will be added to the final returns, since dropping a ballot in a designated drop site by 8:00 PM on election Night is considered the vote delivered into the hands of the State Elections division, regardless of whatever county you are living in.

IDK how VA is on all this, especially since they are relatively new to VbM and all that, but I could imagine if VA law is similar there could be potentially 10-20k same day ballots in the most heavily populated regions of VA such as NoVA, metro Richmond, and Tidewater....

Thoughts Atlas Hive???

For some reason a political website where VA avatars are so over-represented, I still haven't seen a single response?

WTF is so difficult about the fundamental questions which I am asking when it comes to how VA counts votes, especially with the shift to mail in ballots?

This is not a College Grad School type question, but apparently the average VA poster has only an HS Educational Level if they can't even address the fundamentals of what could well take this election down to a potential DEM win or recount zone....

Or they just don't care to respond to this?

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So he needs to win like 75% of mail ballots, which is about what Biden was winning them in 2020. That's why it's not called.

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He doesn't need to concede before the race is even called.

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He doesn't need to concede before the race is even called.

Reputable sources called the race at like 10 EST lmao

The networks haven't.