Democrats sweep Virginia legislature in blow to Gov. Glenn Youngkin

NY Post ^ | Nov. 7, 2023

[nuconvert]

Democrats in Virginia on Tuesday night retained their majority in the state Senate — a blow to Republicans who were hoping to achieve total control of the state legislature and boost Gov. Glenn Youngkin in his final two years in office.

The GOP also lost control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, with Democrats set to win at least 51 seats in the 100-member lower chamber.

[Savage Beast]

"The average voter is as dumb as a turkey dropping."

You summed it up nicely, Bill.

That's the biggest surprise of all to me.

I always wondered how Hitler could persuade the German People to follow him. Now I understand all too well.

I used to think I was of average intelligence. Now I realize that I'm a clairvoyant, psychic, telepathic, prophetic genius. I'm not the only one. The average voter is the opposite of that, in your words, Bill, dumb as a turkey dropping.

[McGavin999]

Because he is in a New York court. Jeeze you DeSantis fanboys are disgusting.

[KevinB]

We could have fielded candidates and forced the Dems to spend less money in other races where the Pubbies had a theoretcial shot so that these other races weren’t just “gimees”.

You have to find a candidate willing to do that, however. "Hey, Bob, we want you to run for the district ___ house seat. We all know you're going to be attacked mercilessly and lose by 40 points, but it will force the Dems to spend a little money in that district. You in?" :-)

[central_va]

He knows that Trump is poison in purple VA.

Horse sh!t. RINOs are toxic waste.

[Chewbarkah]

Of the comments I’ve read so far, no one mentions the redistricting imposed by the federal court. The district map was designed to produce the results seen.

Republicans could win if they would campaign and get out the vote in rural areas. NoVa Republicans control the strategy and funding. Seemingly they could care less. As usual the R’s had no campaign presense in the central Virginia area where I live.

[Alberta's Child]

Trump has driven the Republican Party off a cliff the last 5 years.

This is absolutely false. Trump only materialized as a political player in this country because the Republican Party was already lying in a wrecked heap at the bottom of the cliff by the time we got to 2016.

I would attribute the collapse of the GOP to three political figures in particular:

1. George W. Bush
2. Paul Ryan
3. Mitch McConnell

To get a sense of just how inept, feckless and corrupt the party was before Trump arrived, just consider these three losers:

This was supposed to be the "new generation of conservative leaders," and yet two of them have vanished from the political scene in disgrace and the third was just toppled from his position as House Speaker because he was such an ineffective loser who betrayed his own party in his leadership role.

[central_va]

I’m going to vote for him...but knowing he won’t win.

What a hero you are.

[dfwgator]

GOP is the Seinfeld Party, a party about nothing.

[Maris Crane]

I think Glenn never was MAGA.

[Alberta's Child]

The hatred of Hillary was greater than the hatred of Trump, at that point. He still barely won with a historically low vote %. Hey I was a big supporter of him at the time. But probably more because I didn't want Hillary in, like millions of others.

None of this explains why Trump was ever nominated in the first place.

I can tell you exactly why he was nominated. Tens of millions of Americans woke up one day in 2015, took a brief look at the news reports about the 2016 presidential campaign, and realized (in utter disgust) that in a nation of 300+ million people, the two frontrunners in the presidential election were a pair of @ssholes named Bush and Clinton.

Among those tens of millions of Americans, the Republican ones decided to do something about it. Democrats, on the other hand, don't have the intelligence or wisdom to do anything except whatever they're told to do.

[Lazamataz]

Who we pick is a completely different topic. What I am rejecting is much narrower. You said that Trump's endorsement sunk the KY governor's opponent. That is something you would want to put some evidence behind, because I read elsewhere that Kentucky voted Trump in the last election by a 26% margin.

Gov. Andy Beshear is popular in KY. He doesn't act like a leftist loon and he does his job when disaster strikes. The people of KY like him, that's really the long and short of it.

[Jim Noble]

“ The over turning of Roe is the worst thing that could have happened to Republicans.”

Overturning Roe was necessary to illustrate the principle that the USSC can’t just make things up.

It is unfortunate that all the passion in the fight was from people who thought that overturning Roe would lead to restrictions on abortion, when that was never a realistic possibility.

[KevinB]

Of the comments I’ve read so far, no one mentions the redistricting imposed by the federal court. The district map was designed to produce the results seen.

In my post 157, I said, "This election cycle was made much more difficult because of a recent statewide redistricting that resulted in new elections for every member of the house and senate. At the time of the redistricting, pretty much everyone who pays attention to these things concluded it would favor the Democrats."

[Jim Noble]

Trump will become the new Harold Stassen - unless he wins.

This is, as many have pointed out, very unlikely.

[nuconvert]

“I think Glenn never was MAGA.”

What does that mean?

[itsahoot]

"I don't believe me or mine should kill babies, but that's a personal decision that every person has a right to decide" kind of thing.

Sort of like, I don't believe in stealing my neighbors stuff but every person has a right to decide for themselves.

I said the day the Roe decision was announced the old would be next. We have taken much longer to get there but we are following the Hitler model and going after the mental defectives and infirm first, the old are being put in nursing homes where care at best is marginal. Do you remember when Oregon fought John Ashcroft into submission over euthanasia? Well actually they ran a dead man against him and he laid down.

Have you noticed what is happening in Canada? Did you notice when New York put their sickest people in nursing homes, what happened to the elderly? I contend that was not just a human error due to an overabundance of caution.

When some lives begin to have less value than others how do you avoid being placed in that less value group?

[dfwgator]

It is what it is.

This battle is going to have to be fought elsewhere, it’s not like people are going to start rushing out to have abortions.

[BigFreakinToad]

THis is a bell weather of 24, best get used to it. Yet another state fails the stupid test.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

But then Miss Lindsey opened her pie-hole and floated the Federal Abortion Ban, and that was all she wrote!

Graham's advantages in SC are that his opponent is always a Dem, and the GOP-e machine. He even got reelected when he was the image of GOP senate amnesty aspirations.

[Alberta's Child]

Trump’s endorsement sank the KY governor.

This is 100% false.

Trump didn't even publicly endorse the Republican until several days before the election -- and it was a muted endorsement at best.

Trump knew damn well that the guy was going to lose ... and as I've posted here many times in the past, Trump simply does not like to endorse losers even if they are perfect MAGA candidates.