Posted on 11/08/2017 10:25:18 AM PST by leaymane
It is the loss of the House of Delegates that is the tragedy here. It has almost always been in Republican control and has been a safeguard against the lunacy coming from Democrats in statewide offices. It held a 2 to 1 Republican majority until yesterday's vote. Nobody thought they would lose that majority.
Demographics in Virginia made that an inevitability.
Demographics as in young Republican voters (and old geezers like me) who support Trump and see past the worn out Bush/Gillespie brand?
Appreciate the guidance all you out-of-staters give us poor uneducated Virginians on things like our demographics.
Let me give you some personal, on-the-street actual experience. I happen to live behind enemy lines here in Fairfax County (for you out-of-staters, well, check a map). The Mrs. and I recently dined in one of our favorite locales. Pre-Trump, this place was staffed entirely by Spanish-speaking waiters and waitresses. Ditto most of the customers. Today, nary a one. Likewise the clientele was distinctly hispanic-free. I attribute this to Trump-inspired ICE, which has indeed been busy around here (the stories have been mostly local, out-of-staters).
Here's a REAL kicker. I was at the neighborhood Taco Bell, getting lunch for the grandkids. A hispanic fellow came in, speaking no English. Not one person in the place, not the kid at the counter, not anyone cooking, spoke Spanish! The guy was befuddled. He had to gesture for what he wanted.
I chuckled and thought: MAGA! Thank you, Trump's ICE!
I haven’t noticed any big changes in Fairfax tho I note a trend of liberal friends moving out of DC into NoVa and bringing their politics with them.
I voted for Gillespie but expected him to do as little as his Republican predessors have done.
The anti-Trump people were fired up and the pro-Trump independants had no real reason to vote for Gillespie - I never saw any of his anti-MS 13 ads in NoVa.
That's because Gillespie ran as a 90's type of Republican. It's as if he was in a time-warp - but then, so are the Republicans in Richmond, so no surprise there.
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I live in Northern Virginia, and the counties are so populated, they can decide an election if there’s high turnout.
And there was.
We lost three fine conservatives in theHoD Tuesday night; Marshall, Anderson, and Lingamfelter. They are not GoPe. Don't you agree?
Pardon? Bush cuck? Bush worship? Woefully mistaken.
But the demographics in this state may have been changed to the point that we are Maryland, which is not a good thing.
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