Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[EJ24]

Youngkin +2.2, calling it now.

[EJ24]

If Terry does lose, does it indicate more of a bad State and National environment for Dems or is Terry legitimately a horrible candidate?

[EJ24]

This just feels very Coakley vs Scott Brown 2010 Massachussetts to me.

My gut says this ends badly for Terry in a state that is supposed to be lean D. My gut is seldom wrong.

[EJ24]

The fact that the democrats in Virginia don’t want parents involved in their kid’s education is horrifying and I hope the voters of Virginia punish them for it

This is just such a bizarre talking point. How do you even dignify crap like this with an argument?

[EJ24]

This race has taught me what a short-term memory the average voter really does have. The idea that Republicans are the champions of Education after spending the last 30 years mocking the idea that teachers deserve a raise or that Public Schools deserve more funding. It's just laughable that they are about to make this a winning issue and I'm not sure if it's reflective of how fickle voters are or how truly abysmal the Democratic party is at messaging.

[EJ24]

Can somebody link the old Woodbury quote about "letting the slaughtering begin"?

[EJ24]

Loudon "Miami-Dade" County

[EJ24]

Total insanity that McAuliffe got punished for something in Loudoun that literally had nothing to do with him or the Democratic party.

They're not willing to fight. Republicans say things, Dems basically throw their arms up in the air and say its not true, and expect that to be enough.

What more do you expect them to do

Set the damn narrative instead of being on defense?

[EJ24]

Clinton cronies never win.

Shontel Brown literally won tonight

[EJ24]

Terry did run a bad campaign but his campaign is symptomatic on the micro-level of what's wrong with the Democratic party currently. They are still living on the political corpse of Trump, and that simply will not last forever. They also don't seem to have an answer to these wedge culture war issues such as CRT. I think an effective way to counter that is by setting the agenda by getting legislative wins on Kitchen table issues and daring the Republicans to oppose it.

But they haven't done that all year, and thus they have nothing to campaign on.

[EJ24]

I think the uncomfortable truth here is that part of this is Suburban whitelash after this past year of new conversations about race, not just CRT. That one issue just happens to encapsulate it.

I don't think Suburbanites are as reliable for Democrats as they may think. They are still okay with racism as long as it's in pretty packaging with respectable language.

[EJ24]

The story is that Loudon County pulled a Miami-Dade and then Youngkin ran ahead of Trump pretty much everywhere else.