“What Happened in Staunton” on Tuesday? “Canary in the Coalmine,” or What?
Among the interesting municipal election results here in Virginia on Tuesday (May 19, 2020), one that stands out is Staunton, where there were some “big changes”: “With all precincts reporting, conservative candidates Steve Claffey, Andrea Oakes, Mark Robertson and Amy Darby saw wins in the Staunton City Council election,” while incumbents Ophie Kier, Erik Curren and James Harrington all lost their seats. The result? As the Augusta Free Press reports: “What happened in Staunton? Massive turnout flips Queen City from blue to red”: “Democrats got their voters out better than they have in a May cycle in years. Republicans got turnout more akin to, not quite a presidential year, but approaching gubernatorial.
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I wish this were an accurate predictor, but the Staunton city election involved fewer than 5,000 total voters (each voter got to pick 4 at large alderman, which is what inflated the vote totals).
Ralph Northam is so repugnant, and Mark Warner is so vile, that I can’t understand why people who live here could possibly vote ‘Rat.
I'm aware of the Staunton elections, but that is a far cry from a national election in which Virginia is an afterthought. There is not a Trump push to win in Virginia because he does not need the state.
I've written it before, but we all know that Northern Virginia supplies about a quarter to a third of the state's vote on election day (depending how you define NVA) and it is too much to overcome. The government workers and federal contractors will never vote for Trump regardless of guns.
You and others have told me that the gun owners came out to vote in the state elections last November, so if they did come out to vote as everyone says, exactly whom is going to counter the Northern Virginia vote to win the state for Trump.
The state has gotten more blue in four years. More liberals moving into the state as Amazon starts to establish one of its headquarters in Arlington. More Marylanders moving in from across the Potomac...I would like you to meet my new neighbors who can't wait to vote for Biden and not to mention more foreign born by the droves in NVA - there is no end. Fairfax is now up to 40% foreign born. I do believe Trump may flip some of the Asian Indian vote, which voted 80% for Hillary and that will help.