VA-GOV 2017: Utter Panic and Doom (General election: Nov 7th)

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Ugh.

Win this, Perriello!

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Perriello holding a music concert rally later this month

That's pretty cool.  I don't know if that's a common thing in Virginia or the South in general, but I lived in Connecticut for most of my life and political campaigns holding concerts there was just unheard of.

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This was retweeted by Perriello: ten former Bernie delegates endorsing him.

Bernie voters are definitely going to break hard for Perriello.  Having Podesta and the Obama team on his side is great, too.

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Yeah also let's try not to turn literally every single Democratic primary into a proxy battle for Sanders/Hillary pls

I mean I'll be really pissed if "SOSHUL LIBRUL/FISCULL CONSERTIVE" Ralph Northam wins (more so than when Perez beat Ellison, even), but if he does it won't be because Hillary Clinton secretly wants to punish Sanders voters or whatever.

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Perriello should run for Warner's seat if he retires (hopefully) in 2020.

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Pollster that nailed Mt finds perriello up 54/46 & Gillespie Stewart tied 42/41.

0% undecided, though?  That doesn't sound realistic.

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Virginia Democrats not ready to be uncucked, sadly.  Oh, well.  Perriello's young and I'm sure he'll run again somewhere.

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Perriello is too good for the spineless bureaucrats of NoVa. Sad!

Oh well, best wishes to Northam.

This race was more national vs state interests, really. Northam and Tom P pretty close on most issues

They're close now on most issues.  I'm praying that Northam doesn't cuck progressives out again when he's inaugurated next year.

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WULFRIC PROJECTION: NORTHAM WINS DEM PRIMARY

Governor
Democratic Primary

CANDIDATE   VOTE   PCT.
Ralph Northam
175,178   55.8%
Tom Perriello
138,727   44.2
62% reporting (1,595 of 2,561 precincts)

Don't you mean "Capitalism wins Dem primary?"

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Another victory for La Resistance

This doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, both Democrats ran as anti-Trump progressives.

Arguably, Northam was more anti-Trump.

But he isn't the more progressive of the two. La Resistance is more than anti-Trump, it must lead to muh political revolution.

They both ran against Trump.  I've been living in the state for two years and can tell you that much.

The VDP isn't a left-wing or center-left party much as it is a centrist party.  That's just the way it is.

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My thinking is Perriello runs for Lt.G in 2021, then governor in 2025.  The guy's 42.  He has time.

Didn't know there were that many people who bitterly cling to the rebel flag in VA...

You'd be surprised.  There was this guy who lived next door to me and my mom whom my mom would give cigarettes to occasionally.  His response each time: "That's mighty white of you."

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My thinking is Perriello runs for Lt.G in 2021, then governor in 2025.  The guy's 42.  He has time.

Didn't know there were that many people who bitterly cling to the rebel flag in VA...

You'd be surprised.

I mean, I knew there'd be bitter clingers in SWVA, but in a supposedly affluent, educated, and urbane county like Prince William?!

There are racist rednecks everywhere.  I'm in VA Beach.  Hell, I regularly encounter people with accents so thick you'd need a translator to understand them.

Just because a place is affluent, educated, or urban doesn't mean it's inherently less rednecky or racist.  That's a notion I've been trying to get progressives to abandon for a long time.

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Anyway I'm not going to use the thread to bash Northam, but never again do I want to hear a DLC cuck complain about Bernie not being a "real Democrat."  Bernie and Perriello didn't vote for George Bush twice.

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https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/874791887185510404

*snort*

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How did an anti-LGBT Pub get elected in such a Democrat-friendly district in the first place, anyway?  Or is this because of a redistricting case I hadn't heard about?

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Spectacular work as always, Miles!

So the word on Dark Atlas is that Wagner basically ran as a moderate on economic issues.  I wonder how much support that bled from Gillespie.  I didn't follow his campaign at all but I didn't see any signs of his and I don't think he ran a single ad - and this is his home city.

Eyeballing that map, it appears Stewart won my precinct.

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New Gillespie ad lumps Northam with sex offenders.

Dumb thing to go out on, Ed.

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New Gillespie ad lumps Northam with sex offenders.

Dumb thing to go out on, Ed.

A "moderate" in today's Republican party.

Interestingly, there's another ad making the rounds which features a "mother" claiming she can't vote for Ralph Northam because he "made it easy for felons to get guns."