Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

I am so tired of this country.

[DrScholl]

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?

[_.]

"Non Swing Voter" waiting for the Fairfax dump like

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[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

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.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

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

OHHHHHH MYYY GOOOD GOD!!!!!

I suppose your type has to find their orgasms where they can.

[lfromnj]

"Parents shouldn't be in control of education"

Not a gaffe.

[Ron DeSantis enthusiast]

WHERE IS NON SWING VOTER? HAHAHAHAHA

[DaleCooper]

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.

The pedantry is part of how Dem hacks pretend that their party isn't in favor of what is effectively CRT, or that some variant of it isn't being taught in schools.

[Chips]

There's potentially a small window McAuliffe still has but it's definitely not looking great.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I can’t believe the next governor of Virginia is gonna be a picture of Toni Morrison with Xs over her eyes

[CookieDamage]

Non Swing Voter, it was bad for us it was real bad for us.

[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.

[Lambsbread]

Electability strikes again! Great job, VA Dems.

[TodayJunior]

Ok what about all the absent tee. I read where that is near 20% of the entire thing. Can someone verify this?

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Almost like it's more effective to run a focused, issues-driven campaign than to relitigate the last election the former President got his ass kicked in. I wonder if the Republicans will take any lessons from this in coming years, but too much of the party still seems to be in thrall to that guy.

[BigSerg]

https://twitter.com/ChazNuttycombe/status/1455693529368379392?t=mN8LYDjcH6o8KM4T...

[emailking]

McAuliffe down 10.

[RI]

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 1/4 or more. If only 7% of ballots were counted, Fairfax alone would have over 2m votes.

[Sestak]

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.

[roxas11]

I hope Democrats have the correct reaction to this.


The correct reaction is ram through everything they can, because the narrative has been set. Perceptions become reality, and this election will literally cause a red wave in 2022.

But inb4 Manchin decides to become even more "moderate" in reaction to this, as if running to the center helped Democrats at all in 2010, in 2014, in 2016...

The Virginia election won't "cause" a red wave. Voters aren't going to vote Republican because Youngkin won. It might point to a potential red wave (but I'm waiting for NJ results to judge that - VA is a state where Democrats just don't seem to be in a good place right now).

Every election represents a snapshot in time.
how voter feel right now does not tell us how they will feel a year from now

for example, nobody thought Ronald Reagan would be reelected early on because of his bad poll numbers, but by the time 1984 rolled around....


he went on to win one of the biggest landslides in American history

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

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.

The pedantry is part of how Dem hacks pretend that their party isn't in favor of what is effectively CRT, or that some variant of it isn't being taught in schools.

Democrats are in favor of CRT the same way Republicans are in favor of raping and killing children.

[Buzz]

NSV is currently coping

[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Aight fellas gonna eat dinner now. Hopefully something interesting will happen while I'm gone.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

as it turns out running a campaign that's completely uninspired and letting your opponent control the narrative ISN'T a good way to do things!

[NYDem]

I'm a Democrat, so I'm obviously very unhappy with the fact that we lost this election. I will say though, I do get a slight consolation in seeing people mock how incredibly wrong NSV was. Watching someone who insufferably and baselessly claims to be right get proven wrong is at least a bit satisfying, even if they theoretically are on the same side as you.