Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[DrScholl]

But... I don't understand. Swing voters don't even know what the exact academic definition of CRT is! I've been informed by Atlas that this somehow means they can't vote based on what their impression of it is.

They don't know what it really it, but that really isn't the point. The point is that Republicans got enough people to the polls who are stupid enough to believe that critical race theory is being taught in K-12 when it really isn't.

[Ljube]

Christopher Rufo needs to be the next GOP secretary of education.

Youngkin doesn't get to make cabinet appointments. Those are made by the President.

Not now, but perhaps in 3 years...

The last time a Republican won the Virginia gubernatorial it didn't exactly lead to a Republican winning the presidency. Isn't a little early to be making such plans?

All I'm saying is that Youngkin has suddenly become one of the top favorites for winning the nomination.

[BigSerg]

https://twitter.com/PollProjectUSA/status/1455693839109279747?t=nk4qJRyd2D2q0ngk...

[swf541]

It's 2009 all over again and we all knew what happened in 2010...

Blew several easily winnable senate seats due to nominating weirdos and proceeded to blow a very winnable presidential election?

(I think 22 will be bad for dems but depending on the economy will vary from somewhat bad to 2010-2014 tier)

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

I will never forget NSV harassing me all over this forum after I was off (like everyone else) in the CA recall.

Like everyone else? Some of us called both this race and CA correctly.

Was about to say, let's not go nuts.  Not everybody here is interested in gloating after election hits-and-misses.  

[Vespucci]

People seem to be focusing more on McAuliffe's bad campaign than Youngkin's good one. If Republicans can run similar campaigns next year they could get their red wave. I'm not entirely confident they will, though.

[VBM]

Establishment Democrats are the most out of touch people on the planet

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

How’s Fairfax County doing?

Overwhelmingly Dem so far according to the WAPO. Keep in mind only 7.6% of the ballots have been counted.

No, more like 1/3 or more. If only 7% of ballots were counted, Fairfax alone would have over 2m votes.

My bad lol. I was comparing the percentages.

[Badger]

I am so tired of this country.

Blame the Democrats who nominated a Clinton has been. This is about the failures of third way neolib politics.

Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin of the Republican lite wing. Swingy suburban voters are never going to be the base of the supposedly left wing party. Ever.

 So we should have run a birdie Sanders clone? Please. The answering meal liberal is an exactly a cure all for the Democratic Party's party's ills. If Terry McCullough had run at least as good a campaign as he did 8 years ago, he might have had a shot here.

 Addressing the issue  Constructively now, I have to admit I'm a little surprised as I was under the impression that, republicans notwithstanding of course, that McCullough had left office reasonably well reasonably well liked and popular.

[Lief 🗽]

RATINGS CHANGE:

2024 Virginia Electoral Votes: Likely D >>> Safe R

[THG]

NSV is very quiet right now.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

WHERE IS NON SWING VOTER? HAHAHAHAHA

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It seems the pace by which the votes are being counted is picking up.

[wbrocks67]

Early vote has stalled, basically. Still only 21% in, compared with 60% of E-Day.

https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20211102/statewide/

[lfromnj]

Establishment Democrats are the most out of touch people on the planet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-defends-critical-race-theory-being-taught-in-schools/ar-AAMnukn
?

[DaleCooper]

People seem to be focusing more on McAuliffe's bad campaign than Youngkin's good one. If Republicans can run similar campaigns next year they could get their red wave. I'm not entirely confident they will, though.

Absolutely. Virginia will not look like this if the 2024 campaign is about how we need another Arizona audit.

[Storr]

Youngkin tops 1 million votes with 60% in.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/02/us/elections/results-virginia.html

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

Regardless of what the margin ends up being, the fact that Republicans were able to improve upon the GOP baseline here by running against teaching Toni Morrison books is really all that any of us needs to know.

[hyouzel the predictor]

In summary, Youngkin ran an excellent campaign while McAuliffe ran an awful one. Dems cannot control the narrative for the life of them... BTW I fully believe if the Dem party in Loudoun had their sh**t together TMAC would have won bc this CRT/anti-trans narrative wouldn't have spun out of control...

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

People seem to be focusing more on McAuliffe's bad campaign than Youngkin's good one. If Republicans can run similar campaigns next year they could get their red wave. I'm not entirely confident they will, though.

The takeaway is that the thing people dislike about Trump is not his rhetoric, but his tone. Youngkin ran close to Trump on the issues—making CRT the key issue was definitely a Trumpy thing to do—but was much nicer about it. Democrats are in big trouble if they don’t figure out how to counter the rhetoric.

[Horus]

I am so tired of this country.

Blame the Democrats who nominated a Clinton has been. This is about the failures of third way neolib politics.

Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin of the Republican lite wing. Swingy suburban voters are never going to be the base of the supposedly left wing party. Ever.

 So we should have run a birdie Sanders clone? Please. The answering meal liberal is an exactly a cure all for the Democratic Party's party's ills. If Terry McCullough had run at least as good a campaign as he did 8 years ago, he might have had a shot here.

 Addressing the issue  Constructively now, I have to admit I'm a little surprised as I was under the impression that, republicans notwithstanding of course, that McCullough had left office reasonably well reasonably well liked and popular.

No, the answer is to run Democrats who actually have a plan and can both run on issues and motivate voters. Fetterman, Conor Lamb, Ossoff, Warnock, AOC, they don't have to be from the Sanders wing.

McAuliffe motivated no one, he ran against Trump instead of his actual opponent and he isn't charismatic.

[beesley]

Well it looks like there were several Clinton/Northam/Kaine/Biden voters for Youngkin.

[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.

[NOVA Green]

200k gap is pretty big, so definitely some heavy lifting even with the outstanding votes in NOVA and some down around Richmond and Tidewater that might skew DEM.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

I am so tired of this country.

Blame the Democrats who nominated a Clinton has been. This is about the failures of third way neolib politics.

Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin of the Republican lite wing. Swingy suburban voters are never going to be the base of the supposedly left wing party. Ever.

 So we should have run a birdie Sanders clone? Please. The answering meal liberal is an exactly a cure all for the Democratic Party's party's ills. If Terry McCullough had run at least as good a campaign as he did 8 years ago, he might have had a shot here.

 Addressing the issue  Constructively now, I have to admit I'm a little surprised as I was under the impression that, republicans notwithstanding of course, that McCullough had left office reasonably well reasonably well liked and popular.

No, the answer is to run Democrats who actually have a plan and can both run on issues and motivate voters. Fetterman, Conor Lamb, Ossoff, Warnock, AOC, they don't have to be from the Sanders wing.

McAuliffe motivated no one, he ran against Trump instead of his actual opponent and he isn't charismatic.

How is AOC not from the Sanders wing?