Looking for a solid W, is this it?
I am heartened, no doubt. There is a rule of thumb in sports:
If you are doing something that your opponent cannot stop, you keep doing it until they prove they can stop it before you change tactics.
This may not be the best test of whether we can “stop” it, as McAuliffe was a historically stupid and unpalatable candidate.
However, this is the state that contains Northern Virginia, which has appeared over the last few decades to be settling in to the group of places like Cambridge, Ithaca (City of Evil), Madison, and Berkeley. A win there is grand.
But keep in mind, even a place like Massachusetts has an ostensibly Republican governor.
And it isn’t over. They are stretching elections out so that mischief can be engaged in, so until all the ballots (both fake and real) come in and that scum does concede, we cannot say it is over.
But this is a good first step. You cannot overcome fraud twice without first overcoming it once. And we need to repeat this, again and again, everywhere else.