Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

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27 % of Voters are Senior Citizens in VA per CNN. Youth Vote only 9 %.

YoungKing YoungKing YoungKing!!!!

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27 % of Voters are Senior Citizens in VA per CNN. Youth Vote only 9 %.

YoungKing YoungKing YoungKing!!!!

Will you cool it with the cultish stuff? We've had enough of that with Trump. No one in this race is a king.

Dude it’s just a joke lol

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Seeing on New York Times that Fairfax will be delayed in reporting early ballots and it's not clear when they will come in, but it won't be by 8 pm EST.

Lol

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How can Fairfax do this

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How can Fairfax do this

Seems like they got so many ballots to process they have to delay reporting results.

Massive incompetence

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455680776985620483

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https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1455681169324916736

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This is glorious

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This is glorious

I don't have any real stake in who wins this race, but why is it glorious?  Are you proud of this race?  Youngkin is winning for one reason and one reason only -- TMac made a gaffe in a debate that Youngkin took full advantage of to falsely imply that TMac wanted to force our children to learn that white people are inherently evil and racist, and voters bought it hook line and sinker.  You proud of that?

COPE

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This is glorious

I don't have any real stake in who wins this race, but why is it glorious?  Are you proud of this race?  Youngkin is winning for one reason and one reason only -- TMac made a gaffe in a debate that Youngkin took full advantage of to falsely imply that TMac wanted to force our children to learn that white people are inherently evil and racist, and voters bought it hook line and sinker.  You proud of that?

COPE

You're too mature to be posting things like this.  I don't really care that much about this race... you'll note I have zero posts in this massive megathread.

Ok the reason why is that comment by T-Mac on education was disgusting , Youngkin seems like he’d be a competent governor and this race is a referendum on Biden too

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Dem pundit Ben Tribbet just called all 3 races for the GOP on Twitter.

Wow

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https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455692529790328835

YoungKing!!!!

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Youngkin basically ran how George W Bush would have in a more populist age

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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).  

This seems more imo to be like a repeat of Conner Lamb win in early 2018 rather than MA 2010/AL 2017.

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It’s just not CRT but a backlash to the national dem agenda in general . VA while a blue state isn’t that blue like say OR

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Something democrats don’t get is : Responding to the CRT debate by saying but it isn’t taught in public schools is ok if it isn’t then why are you guys getting so worked up by opposing candidates saying they will ban it . If it isn’t being taught than that ban shouldn’t change a thing right .

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I would be curious to see if Glenn's victory is thanks to Asian Americans. As a Asian American myself, especially a Vietnamese American, I am one of the few democrat Asian Americans that I know of.

In the more working class Asian communities, it's actually cultural conservativism. Obedience, respect your parents, working hard. Perhaps Glenn played into that.

It's interesting: most of the Republican Indian-Americans that I've encountered come from upper-class suburban families (I'm an example of one).  By contrast, the working-class Indian-Americans I know skew heavily Democratic.  

2020 may have changed that cause while this is anecdotel the working class family members I have were much more likely to vote Trump than the more upper middle class types even though they used to be much more solidly democratic

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Dems need to give up on wokeness, get stricter on Manchin/Sinema so that we can actually get legislative accomplishments, and improve their messaging. It still baffles me how Dem politicians are so out of touch that they’re still under the impression that saying the vastly unpopular term “Latinx” is beneficial for them electorally. They should have caught onto this a year ago. They fact that they’re still saying it shows how out of touch they are

Look, I know that I'm out of touch and live under a rock, but I do think Democrats should avoid woke language (Matt Y. & David Shor's popularism, etc., etc.), but I also think we have? I just can't think of an example of someone who won a Dem primary recently being exceedingly woke in messaging. Last I checked we aren't choosing Elizabeth Warren and Maya Wiley to lead us into general elections. Where is this happening? Who is doing it? I just don't know how we're supposed to *stop* doing it if our leaders aren't doing it in the first place. I'm asking this as a genuine practical question. If wokeness emanates from "the cultural left, in aggregate"--rather than Democratic top brass--how is it supposed to be eliminated on the campaign trail?

The issue is the cultural left is what the backlash is against, especially against the fact that nearly every institution has seemingly embraced them .

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I would be curious to see if Glenn's victory is thanks to Asian Americans. As a Asian American myself, especially a Vietnamese American, I am one of the few democrat Asian Americans that I know of.

In the more working class Asian communities, it's actually cultural conservativism. Obedience, respect your parents, working hard. Perhaps Glenn played into that.

It's interesting: most of the Republican Indian-Americans that I've encountered come from upper-class suburban families (I'm an example of one).  By contrast, the working-class Indian-Americans I know skew heavily Democratic.  

2020 may have changed that cause while this is anecdotel the working class family members I have were much more likely to vote Trump than the more upper middle class types even though they used to be much more solidly democratic

Nope, this was largely the case in 2020 (at least in my own social experiences) -- though I understand that this runs counter-intuitive to wholesale 2020 trends.  

As a whole, though, we're still a relatively Democratic-voting group.  I've always found this interesting considering the stereotype of cultural conservatism that surrounds us.  Hell, I still can't wear leggings-as-pants around my grandma haha. 

I think the Indian vote probably will vote similarly to the Jewish vote in many elections to come . Trump got similar support among both groups I think

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 Adams not underperforming Biden 2020 by much at all  is pretty telling .

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I would be curious to see if Glenn's victory is thanks to Asian Americans. As a Asian American myself, especially a Vietnamese American, I am one of the few democrat Asian Americans that I know of.

In the more working class Asian communities, it's actually cultural conservativism. Obedience, respect your parents, working hard. Perhaps Glenn played into that.

It's interesting: most of the Republican Indian-Americans that I've encountered come from upper-class suburban families (I'm an example of one).  By contrast, the working-class Indian-Americans I know skew heavily Democratic.  

2020 may have changed that cause while this is anecdotel the working class family members I have were much more likely to vote Trump than the more upper middle class types even though they used to be much more solidly democratic

Nope, this was largely the case in 2020 (at least in my own social experiences) -- though I understand that this runs counter-intuitive to wholesale 2020 trends.  

As a whole, though, we're still a relatively Democratic-voting group.  I've always found this interesting considering the stereotype of cultural conservatism that surrounds us.  Hell, I still can't wear leggings-as-pants around my grandma haha. 

I will say that the (mostly age 18-35 and US-raised) Indian Americans on Atlas seem more right-wing than the ones I knew growing up and from college.

Indian Americans are definitely the most "white-adjacent" major Asian group. It makes total sense that they (would if they don't already) vote like Jewish Americans given the broad similarities on cultural values and class/occupational profile.

Indians are also the largest single Asian group in VA, so if there was a significant R swing among Asian American voters we should expect major R shifts in Indian-heavy areas, along with Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino-heavy areas in NoVA and maybe Hampton Roads + Richmond.

A huge caveat might be is that earlier exit polls on Indian voters pre 2016 might not be accurate given how small the sample size used to be. So the swing might not be anywhere near as big as it seems like.

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The Lincoln Project is a joke

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https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/927941390537052160

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I predicted 2020 GA Dem Sweep, 2021 VA Flip, and 2021 NJ Flip, I'm the betting odds God of Atlas.

AMA.

NJ wont flip though

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The meme is real!

https://twitter.com/YoungKimCA/status/1455714690278043650?s=20

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