NYT results
Gillespie 18,630 votes 50.1%
Northam 18,150 votes 48.8%
NYT results
Gillespie 32,197 votes 50.1%
Northam 31,458 votes 48.9%
3% reporting (68 of 2,566 precincts)
I voted this morning about 9:30 am. The morons who manage the polls in my district were all excited about there having been 500 votes cast already by then, which, they said, was 1/5th the total. Apparently that meant a big turnout. Rain picked up shortly thereafter, so I doubt the flow kept up.
Not sure what would drive turnout here, except that there’s a very aggressive independent running for Arlington County Board, Audrey Clement, so perhaps that’s part of it. This particular candidate is a leftist loon who has an odd, fiscally conservative bone and who has been pushing hard on taxes and spending. She lost 2 or 3 times to the Democrat Cabal that runs this County, but she seems to have some momentum this time. Hope so!
Meanwhile, mine was probably one of the 8 Gillespie votes in our district...
NYT results
Gillespie 56,403 votes 49.7%
Northam 55,896 votes 49.2%
Gillespie not doing well but with the same amount counted the Rep Lt. Gov and Attorney General candidates are leading.
Virginia consistently elects the most scurvy Democrats...Kain, Warner, McAuliffe.... Seriously none of them is any better than the party’s worst. It’s sad what’s happened to Virginia...full of lobbyists and FedGov drones now, I guess....
Fox just called it. Sigh.
Never Trumper Gillespie loses according to Fox. Twice a loser, good riddance.
NYT just called it for Northam with 51.4%
Fox just called Virginia for Northam
The Repukes still don’t get it. It’s not enough for Trump to endorse you. YOU have to endorse Trump.
The loss is no big surprise. The state borders D.C. and I would imagine a good number of people in VA are bureaucrats on the government teet. So there ya have it.
Free birth control for women and it that fails they can still kill their babies. Women wonder why men think they are selfish. PS Women are the majority voters and they do swing the elections.