You have to give VA and especially national Democrats credit here, though: They learned from their mistakes in GA-06 and effectively downplayed expectations for a race they were always going to win. Since everyone is treating this as a Tossup now, even a narrow Northam victory will be seen as a big victory for Democrats and boost their morale. This ridiculous hype probably also motivated their base to turn out in an off-year election and helped Northam even more in the end. Too bad most Republicans (including almost all of them on this forum) fell for that old trick, lol.
Freaking out works!
