6/18 Congressional Primaries Discussion: VA, OK, GA

[LtNOWIS]

As long as  Eugene Vindman loses I will be happy. Not a fan of "celebrity" candidates parachuting into a district that already has quality candidates. 

I expect you'll be disappointed. He's lapped the field with fundraising and the anti-Vindman people never united around a single viable opponent.

[LtNOWIS]

I'm not a Vindman stan, and he's made a lot of unforced errors on the campaign trail. But ultimately I found a lot of the criticisms of him from local politicos over the top. Guy is new to Virginia politics, but not new to the physical area. Even before his rollout, people seemed shocked and aggrieved that a random famous guy who lives in a place would dare to run for Congress in that place, ahead of locally elected officials and state legislators. When that's a thing that happens dozens of times per cycle across the nation.

[LtNOWIS]

Prince William County largely dropped. Erased a lot of Suhas's lead in VA-10, but not enough to really give Helmer a shot, not with only a little bit out.

Chaz Nuttycombe calls it as a narrow Suhas victory.

[LtNOWIS]

On the local level, Arlington's Democratic primary for an open county board seat is still not decided.

Because it uses ranked choice voting, it must wait until all mail-in ballots post-marked the day of the election come in.

So we won't know who won until FRIDAY at 5PM at an in-person event at the County government building. It's such a terrible system.

Who cares about a delay of a few days? The general election isn't until November anyways. Lots of states don't even have a primary until July or August.