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VA is a perfect example of the big lie, people are screaming that the Republicans did great in the Gov race. While Youngkin did alright (300,000 less votes than Trump), what gave him the election was the Dems lost almost a million voters (over 800,000) from the election a year prior. Sure, there is a drop-off in participation between the two types of races, but not 800,000 ONE Party drop-off.

Basically, Republicans were serious about voter fraud in the Gov race with poll watchers and lawyers throughout the voting process. Monitor the Polls and mail-in ballots and millions of Dem voters will disappear.

Yes, you are exactly right. For once, the Republicans took the issue of voter fraud seriously, with teams of lawyers and poll watchers.

BushCountry wrote: Basically, Republicans were serious about voter fraud in the Gov race with poll watchers and lawyers throughout the voting process. Monitor the Polls and mail-in ballots and millions of Dem voters will disappear.

Right.

Fortunately, that disastrous trend ended in November of 2021 with the election of Republicans to the top three statewide positions and the GOP taking control of the Virginia House of Delegates. Republicans beat the heavily favored Democrats and won these elections in a series of massive upset victories by focusing on ~~education, inflation, and public safety~~ ballot box safety.

These victories showed Republicans across the country the blueprint for how to win and turn the tide against the liberal Democrats. In the 2021 election, the GOP took back the education issue from the Democrats in Virginia. For decades, Democrats won on the issue of education by focusing on teacher pay, spending more money on school facilities and growing the government bureaucracy watched the ballot boxes and sent lawyers to the precincts.

In the election of 2021, Republicans won by standing with parents against teachers and administrators who were peddling the damaging Critical Race Theory curriculum to their children. Republicans maintained that it was parents who had primary authority over their children, not educational bureaucrats making sure the Demoscat vote factories got shut down.

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BushCountry also wrote: Sure, there is a drop-off in participation between the two types of races, but not 800,000 ONE Party drop-off.

We have a winner.

While Youngkin did alright (300,000 less votes than Trump), what gave him the election was the Dems lost almost a million voters (over 800,000) from the election a year prior. Sure, there is a drop-off in participation between the two types of races, but not 800,000 ONE Party drop-off.

This was the highest turnout of any VA gubernatorial election ever. In losing, McAuliffe actually got more votes this time around than he got the last time he ran and won.

Youngkin was successful in that he threaded the needle with retaining Trump's MAGA base and appealing to frustrated NoVa suburban voters to whom Trump is toxic. This should be the blueprint going forward.

I'd support a Youngkin presidential run except right now he's got way too much work fixing Virginia, hopefully making it more like Florida.

Basically, Republicans were serious about voter fraud in the Gov race with poll watchers and lawyers throughout the voting process. Monitor the Polls and mail-in ballots and millions of Dem voters will disappear.
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As I’ve pointed out to you in the past. The drop off was much larger in past elections in Virginia.

Look at 2013.

1.971 million votes for Bath House Barry in 2012.
Only 1.069 Million for McAwful in 2013.

And Virginia added almost 400K new people between 2013 and 2020.

Keep clowning though.

There is a major disconnect between Trump and a lot of the liberal voters who used to support the GOP in the past. I'm thinking of the affluent suburbanites -- especially women -- who make up a large (and growing) segment of the population in places like northern Virginia.

The problem with these voters is that they are invariably feckless losers who can't stand a dominant leader and are almost totally ignorant about anything outside their local community and their circle of Facebook friends.

You can identify them by their constant state of anxiety over nothing, the masks they wear during all waking hours, and the plastic bags they tie over their heads until someone with an IQ over 70 tells them it's going to kill them.

Basically, Republicans were serious about voter fraud in the Gov race with poll watchers and lawyers throughout the voting process. Monitor the Polls and mail-in ballots and millions of Dem voters will disappear.

That is correct and is why Youngkin won. They also went back to pre-covid election rules, which cheating dems tried to change 11th hours. And they did try to cheat on election night, when Arlington (which is currently trying to defy the new govs orders) tried to re-run a data drive with democrap votes, but GOP poll watchers stepped in a put a stop to that nonsense. That is verifiable.

Thats where other states need to start, because if they dont, you get a close call and a steal like NJ.