Posted on 11/06/2019 12:27:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican friendly gerrymander in VA?!? What?
No they didn’t. They did just fine. It’s that asshat Bevin who had a bad day and for good reason.
Headline is nonsense.
I agree with you.
Matt Margolis of PJ Media observes:
There were six statewide elections in Kentucky on Tuesday, and here are the results:
Governor: Democrat +0.4
Attorney General: Republican +15.5
Agriculture Commissioner: Republican +19.6
Auditor: Republican + 14.6
Secretary of State: Republican +4.4
Treasurer: Republican +21.4
Does that look like a state that is turning blue? Or does that look like a state where the GOP candidate was uniquely unpopular? Spoiler alert: According to a Morning Consult poll from last month, Matt Bevin was the second-least popular governor in the country with an approval rating of 34 percent. Yet, Bevin only lost by 0.4 percent. It’s safe to say that Trump’s 11th-hour involvement in the race helped Bevin, just not enough. Yet, the left is deluding themselves into thinking anti-Trumpism has turned the state blue.
The headline doesn’t seem to match the content. But again, I have read that the map in VA is anything but a pro-GOP gerrymander.
Anybody who actually followed pretty closely while I was getting drunk have an opinion on how it went for Rs?
NJ pick ups are a good sign.
Kentucky gov loss COULD have been the libertarian.
Maybe they’re leaving out the bad stuff because what I read on this page seemed kinda good.
thanks in advance.
This guy is a clown and has no business being an analyst for anything.
Let’s look at Virginia first. This was NOT a GOP gerrymander. The 4th Circuit redrew the maps and made it a Democrat Gerrymander. The fact that this moron doesn’t mention that disqualifies all of the rest of his analysis.
The GOP tallied more votes Statewide for both the House of Delegates and the State Senate.
The total votes for the HOD was:
860,794 Republican
823,369 Democrat
55,184 votes for other
For State Senate it was:
843,576 Republican
808,605 Democrat
112,917 other.
The Democrats “won” by getting a Kalifornia Communist “Professor” to gerrymander the maps to benefit the Democrats. Gerrymander is good when it benefits Democrats, it is bad when it benefits Republicans.
Mississippi, the GOP cleaned house. Winning ALL statewide offices and gaining seats in the legislature and getting a super majority in the State Senate.
Kentucky: the GOP EXPANDED their margins EVEN in the Suburbs for all of the offices except for Bevin.
New Jersey: the GOP made several gains in the State Legislature.
All in all the GOP had a B night. Would have been a B+ if Bevin had won. A if they had held on to one of the gerrymandered houses in Virginia.
I’m sick of self important worthless clowns who can’t analyze anything spewing their trash and getting paid for it.
Bad Day? Why? because an unpopular candidate who was down 17 points in the polls just a few short weeks ago lost by 5k after a single Trump visit, and every other R in that state won their statewide races by larger margins than last time?? Oh no... what a horrible, horrible day (/sarcasm)
Because we retook MS and LA Governorships?? Hold me back... take my belt away and put me on suicide watch....
Yes VA is disappointing, but not surprising... if you get elected simply because you give someone the bird, clearly the state is lost, and will have to screw itself for a decade or two before it wises up.
Yeah, baby!
Bevin lost because he sucked. It is what it is. Says nothing about Trump, if anything, Trump made it closer than it would have been.
Yep. The fact that this clown apparently didn’t realize the 4th Circuit changed the maps disqualifies all of the other nonsense he is spewing.
The GOP would have absolutely held at least the HOD in VA on the old maps. No question about it. They had 37000 more votes Statewide than the Rats.
What a bad lede. I’m surprised I even read the rest of the story, seeing it’s coming from Steven Hayward, a Never Trumper. He totally missed the fact that Tucson rejected the proposition to become an official “sanctuary city.” That town is the bane of our existence as far as rationality in our otherwise logical state.
Just 1% separates the win. Bevin did catch up but too late..no matter. What can a Dum Gov do when the entire majority of the senate is Republican.
Well said. And the MSM retards if it was Trump’s fault that Ky voted for a Dem Gov.
That’s all they talked about. They didnt realize across the board, the GOP increase their seats in KY.
That was absolutely NOT a “Republican-friendly gerrymander.” WTF is that fool smoking?
He also missed the fact that Washington State is on its way to REJECTING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. SEE HERE:
Yesterday had something for everyone to gloat about.
As for next the November election, only God knows.
It does not matter if Washingtonians vote against affirmative action. Just like in CA, it will be RAMMED DOWN THEIR THROATS by a Federal judge.
What was the source on those voting numbers for VA?
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