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Is Virginia Turning Blue?
The Atlantic ^ | December 20, 2017 | Clare Foran

Posted on 12/20/2017 10:31:05 AM PST by C19fan

After winning the Virginia governor’s race and flipping more than a dozen seats in the House of Delegates from red to blue last month, Democrats are celebrating victory one more time.

A Democratic win in an election recount on Tuesday looks like it will cost Republicans their majority in the House of Delegates and create a tie for control of the lower chamber of the state legislature. In an incredibly close race, Democrat Shelly Simonds defeated Republican incumbent David Yancey by a single vote—11,608 to 11,607. It’s not clear yet whether that result will stick: Yancey’s campaign is reportedly contesting the recount on the basis that one ballot was not properly counted.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: democrats; va2017
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As a resident yes. Not quite as blue as say CA, MD or NY but the trend is alarming. No GOP candidate has won a statewide election since 2009. The native VAers, I am not one, have been replaced my Yankees, I am one, and immigrants.
1 posted on 12/20/2017 10:31:05 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Is the Pope Catholic?


2 posted on 12/20/2017 10:32:36 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: C19fan

Turning?


3 posted on 12/20/2017 10:33:10 AM PST by Ted Grant
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McAwful had four years to perfect vote fraud.


4 posted on 12/20/2017 10:34:38 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Demographics is destiny. Just ask the Indians who originally inhabited the area.


5 posted on 12/20/2017 10:35:09 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: DIRTYSECRET

No, Francois is Lutheran.


6 posted on 12/20/2017 10:35:53 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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Blacks + immigrants + liberals = winning margin in Virginia.

As it turns out, pro-cheap labor immigration GOPe politicians like Ed Gillespie have replaced their own jobs with their cheap labor express agenda.


7 posted on 12/20/2017 10:37:05 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
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If Virginia is turning blue, perform the Heimlich maneuver on her posthaste!
8 posted on 12/20/2017 10:37:10 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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Are the Smurfs turning blue as well?


9 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:09 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Virginia and Florida. That should cement the Democrats in control permanently, at least until they engender the Collapse.Virginia is becoming politically DC and Florida is becoming a vicarious Puerto Rico since the hurricane finished off what the Democrats had started in PR proper.


10 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:15 AM PST by arthurus (2)
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Yep,

So either

1) Break Virginia up into two states
2) Give Northern Virginia to Maryland
3) Civil War
4) Do nothing and hope they come for your family last

Unfortunately soon North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas will go Blue too, option #3 is looking better everyday.


11 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:25 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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Sadly yes.


12 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:29 AM PST by EdnaMode
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Is Virginia Turning Blue?

Yes.

13 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:40 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

That question does not carry the meaning it once did.


14 posted on 12/20/2017 10:38:57 AM PST by arthurus (3)
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Headwaters of The Swamp


15 posted on 12/20/2017 10:39:19 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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Turning?


16 posted on 12/20/2017 10:40:10 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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It’s a Government Employee Utopia. Of course it’s Blue.


17 posted on 12/20/2017 10:41:19 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Islamophobia, a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.)
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There are still red cities, but dwindling fast. My hometown is still red, but who knows what happens next as the northerners flee their hellholes and trash my seaside town.


18 posted on 12/20/2017 10:41:25 AM PST by OpusatFR
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The democrat won by one vote, probably found in Al Franken’s trunk. Hardly turning blue.


19 posted on 12/20/2017 10:44:07 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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1) Break Virginia up into two states

Didn't they already do that?

20 posted on 12/20/2017 10:46:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
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