Bad news. Virginia is treading bluer as the DC suburbs vote more and more like inner cities. 12 years of Bush brought nothing to Northern Virginia but leftists, and 16 years of Clinton and Obama certainly brought only leftists. Even the military contractors are now dominated by leftists. I have a friend who works as a contract employee, and he’s had 10 different managers above him for 8 different military contractors, and all ten were lesbians.
The hope for Trump is that he might win over some traditionally bluish states, like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Fox’s national poll showing Trump ahead also showed that the none-of-the-above were as likely to lean Republican as Democrat, so to my surprise, that evidence suggests that nationally, we’re not looking at the none-of-the-aboves as Bernie fans who will simply go to Hillary after the convention. So that’s great news.
I’ll admit one of the reason I’d been so angry at the way Trump went after Cruz was I believed Trump was going to destroy the first chance since 1984 to elect a conservative. (I also was angry at what he did to the public discourse, and I’m not convinced he was conservative, but I have no problem choosing Trump over Clinton.) And NATIONALLY, the signs are that I’m getting ready to joyfully chow down on crow.
But Northern Virginia is the land of the politically correct, like one giant state-university campus. You could probably easily be fired at 90% of the jobs here if you showed up to work with a Trump sticker. And that PC mentality has brainwashed people. Many people here actually drive 30 MPH on 35 MPH roads! (Many do 50, too... but you have to be a sheep to be under 50 years old, and drive less than 35 on a 35 road.)
So, if on the whole Trump does gets a little better than Romney or McCain, I wouldn’t be surprised if Virginia is where he does a little worse. And Romney and McCain lost Virginia.
Good post. I think it depends on how many folks who are into Trump/not the establishment this cycle that never really paid attention to politics or voted before will turn out. It might actually be better for our side with a much higher turn out for once. We’ll see.
Freegardss
I think that Trump has a good chance in Virginia. He ‘ll get some den votes like he will nation wide. Sadly the Richmond area has received an influx of leftist voters as the Nwo ect has pushed to move liberal’s into southern states, buying their homes ext moving them here. Just a few years ago chesterfield county the largest Richmond area county was firmly conservative. After the last 8 years of govt manipulation it is now liberal or neck and neck. Taking our tax money and working to destroy our nation. We will prevail anyway !