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.
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As long as it stays in NoVa, I am fine.
Kinda funny that Northam was not the Dem’s ordained candidate. They got stuck with him.
Hillary’s bib is full this morning of dream-drool about her being elected POTUS in 2020. This will truly begin the war in the Democrat party for whose the 2020 pick to run against Trump.
This is also a matter of the Swamp striking back. Keep in mind that Northern Virginia has many private entities dependent on Federal contracts. Trump and his allies threaten that setup, so it isn’t just those directly on the payroll that are unhappy. In addition, the most conservative Virginians were unenthusiastic about Gillespie. This was payback for the RINO desertion of Ken Cucinelli a few years ago.
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kudos.
I’ve been saying this since Trump won last year.
The future of the republican party is no longer in the unified voting block of the south. The coastal southern states will eventually flip.
The future of conservatism centers on working class voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the upper Midwest.
Trump even came with a very close margin of winning Minnesota.
The Dems aren’t the only ones that can flip states.
The tax hike probably played more in the Dems favor.
In researching this, it looks like it’s not set in stone. However, the last two times, the Lt Governor determined which party controlled the chamber.
So, I think the Dems are in a pretty good spot here.
And by the way, watching Drudge headlines the last 2 months its evident his site has been bought out by a sneaky anti Trump group.
“Expect to see the statues come down.”
That’s right. In-spite of 3/4ths of the voters saying keep them up. The only towns where Confederate monuments have come down are the ones controlled by slimeball democrats. Now that the dems will control the state legislature in Virginia (they took it from republicans last night), they’ll repeal the monuments protection law and every single historical monument to Confederates and the Founding Fathers will be knocked down with a bulldozer to be replaced with statues of MLK and Barrack Obama, The Confederate Battle Flag will also be banned. If you’re caught with one you’ll end up in jail. So to hell with the people, the socialist republic of Virginia controls everything in the state. Don’t like it, move out of the state because it’s not changing.
It’s not just Virginia. It is the fact that some many young people, virtually all products of the government school system, are just fine with Bernie Sanders. These people will be a majority of voters within a generation.
Talk all you want about how many R’s we have in elected offices. Many of them are simply D’s who could not win as D’s. We have a virtual supermajority of R’s in the TX state legislature, but we still can’t get solid conservative legislation passed.
At the same time, the Dems did not win a single district in coal country.
We have been moving in this coastal/urban vs central/exurban/rural direction for years. The Trump Era pretty much finally defined those two camps.
The concern for Republicans is that the suburbs are going to be the tie-breakers in these types of elections, and Gillispie got annihilated in the suburbs.
I don't believe they had any before, did they?
The concern for Republicans is that the suburbs are going to be the tie-breakers in these types of elections, and Gillispie got annihilated in the suburbs.
They've been the big reason why Virginia went blue nine years ago. But if the Republicans are losing Tidewater now then that, to me, would be pretty disturbing.
Could be.
For right now, they are content to celebrate the “courageous” and the “brave” for electing VA’s first transgender politician.
Gag.
DC is not part of any state.
My daughter was excited about voting for it.
We elected someone’s boyfriend for Delegate.
It used to be that the rest of the state could offset certain Richmond-area and Tidewater zip codes and remain red overall.
No more, with Alexandria and Fairfax having been overrun by open border / amnesty initiatives and .gov swamp-like dependents.
Continued growth of fedgov from BJ, Shrub and Bams has doomed Northern VA to its current fate.
The Dems ran ads against Adams saying he wants to take away access to contraception. That ad may have impacted R's all over northern VA, not just Attorney General. Those ads were under the radar as far as media attention but millions saw them.
This BS is not going away until it gets directly confronted by the Republicans, which didn't happen in this race. In the CO Senate race a few years ago the Republican won easily but lost by a landslide among young women, where the Dem was making the same claim.
We need to take this as a wake-up call and start the fight for 2018.
One thing that our side does that the left does not, is rest on our laurels. We tend to slow down and take a breather after a win.
The left brushes it aside and moves forward like the mindless zombie hoard that they are.
WE NEED TO take the fight to them now. This should wake us up for 2018. Push your neighbors and friends. Fight the media scum. Learn from this, start fighting for your 2018 candidates now.
We can’t put our heads in the sand and say that we have nothing to worry about. We need to fight for the soul of our country like never before.
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