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Democrats make significant gains in (VA) House of Delegates contests
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 7 Nov | Michael Martz

Posted on 11/07/2017 9:01:39 PM PST by Ceebass

Democrats appeared poised to make huge gains in the Republican-controlled House of Delegates — and potentially take control of the chamber for the first time in 18 years — as strong voter turnout put a slew of GOP incumbents in danger of losing their seats.

The biggest upsets occurred early in Northern Virginia, where Democrat Danica Roem became the first transgender person elected to the House of Delegates, defeating social conservative Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, and Democrat Lee Carter shocked House Republican Whip Jackson H. Miller, R-Manassas, despite tepid support from his own party.

(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dems; elections; gillespie; va2017; vageneralassembly; virginia
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1 posted on 11/07/2017 9:01:39 PM PST by Ceebass
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To: Ceebass

Sorry to see Virginia turn into another New York or Illinois. When you vote Democrat you’re gonna turn your state into a pile of ...


2 posted on 11/07/2017 9:04:30 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Ceebass

How is this a surprise? Isn’t the area around DC chock-full of liberal government workers?


3 posted on 11/07/2017 9:05:05 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Ceebass
D.C. needs to be it's own entity. It should not be part of any state.

Move the capital to the bootheel of Missouri, and let that land be the nation's capital. The bootheel is over 900 square miles, which is plenty of room for everybody. Also make a law that people who work in the nation's capital must live in the nation's capital.

What's left of D.C. should be returned to VA and MD, or declared a historical site.

The capital has too much influence on VA's elections.

4 posted on 11/07/2017 9:05:50 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No thanks pal, we don't want that den of snakes, thieves, and scum in our state. How about you give them 900 sq miles of land in your state??
5 posted on 11/07/2017 9:11:25 PM PST by Redplum
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To: Ceebass

This election had nothing to do with Gillespie being a RINO, never Trumper etc. It shows that Virginia has gone hard left. Those who say that a pro Trump candidate would have won are kidding themselves.

Jill Vogel and John Adams were good conservatives and they lost badly as well. Virginia’s legislature is going democrat as well as the executive branch. There is no more check on the radical left in this state.

Expect to see the statues come down. They may declare sanctuary cities just to insult Trump. Virginia = California now.


6 posted on 11/07/2017 9:12:20 PM PST by Ceebass
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This was more than Northern Virginia. The dims took the house of delegates. They ran the board practically everywhere.


7 posted on 11/07/2017 9:16:49 PM PST by Ceebass
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To: Redplum

What do you mean “your state?” It ofiginally belonged to Arkansas! And no, having DC in WI wouldn’t work. We’re not geographically centered.


8 posted on 11/07/2017 9:20:50 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Ceebass

8 years of democrats giving billions of dollars in the DC area will do that. Those folks lined their pockets from big government.


9 posted on 11/07/2017 9:27:17 PM PST by boycott
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Indeed it appears they did. This was a huge victory for the Left and gives them a huge shot in the arm going into 2018 - the demoralization they suffered from losing all of those special elections is now no more. They have real confidence they can win big in 2018. They gained seats in conservative districts with hard core leftists simply because the turnout of the Dem base was so high even where that base was much smaller than the GOP base. Apparently all of that “backlash” from those disgusting ads they ran didn’t actually exist.

Warning sign here: We need to get that tax reform passed and give the economy a huge boost going into 2018 or we could be in very real trouble even with a favorable Senate map and seats that should not be vulnerable will be vulnerable as well...many of those House of Delegates seats that were lost should have been automatic Republican holds. No seat is safe if what happened in Virginia is replicated in 2018 nationwide.


10 posted on 11/07/2017 9:28:14 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Ceebass

Simple solution: Massively cut the government and get those rats out of Washington.


11 posted on 11/07/2017 9:31:16 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: skr
How is this a surprise? Isn’t the area around DC chock-full of liberal government workers?

And under Obama a HUGE increase in Muslim immigrants in NOVA, along with the natural strong growth of Hispanics.

12 posted on 11/07/2017 9:35:19 PM PST by montag813
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Do not underestimate the impact of Charlottesville, and the way the national and local media and Democrats exploited it to falsely smear Trump, Gillespie and the Dems with it.


13 posted on 11/07/2017 9:40:05 PM PST by montag813
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To: skr

BUT you are also seeing the effects of the 24-7 news hate cycle that denounces Trump as a criminal from the DNC-media.

The Big Lie works.


14 posted on 11/07/2017 9:43:34 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Seeing the sabotage of the Establishment come to its evil fruition.

Like how Mitch McConnell amassed 24MM dollars in a government jowab.


15 posted on 11/07/2017 9:46:50 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Ceebass

I am sure this was huge voter fraud. The dems were scared and were not willing to loose another one. It had nothing to do with Gillespie. All three statewide Republican candidates had almost the exact same vote totals. The dems increased their vote numbers from 2013 on a cold rainy day. Also not likely. Most of it was around Richmond and Arlington.


16 posted on 11/07/2017 9:47:34 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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Many of us have been warning about losing the Republic within a generation if conservatives, Christians and traditionalists do not make an immediate exodus from the socialist factories aka pagan academies aka government schools. There is still time. Do it now, or continue being ignorant fools and standing by as the Republic circles the drain.


17 posted on 11/07/2017 9:52:57 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

what VA delegate seats when dem that should have went rep??

Let VA turn into Detroit. The left destroys every state in its grasp after years of rule. Watch what VA turns into now.


18 posted on 11/07/2017 9:55:26 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: SecAmndmt

Holy crap our side are a bunch of girls and doom a gloomers. Look at all the conservatives have one all over the country in the last 8 years. Why is Trump president? All these special elections went our way now one state, that’s been blue for three election cycles, is a sign of something ominous?

Yea let me tell you why VA is done. The amnesty open borders crowd flooded NoVa the last 15 years.


19 posted on 11/07/2017 9:58:12 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart

won**


20 posted on 11/07/2017 9:58:50 PM PST by snarkytart
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