Ugh...
Posted on 11/06/2025 12:32:19 PM PST by cotton1706
Did you know that, after Donald Trump won his surprise upset victory to become president in the 2016 general election, there was an almost identical reactionary result in elections held the following year? Both New Jersey and Virginia held state-wide elections in 2017, and Democrats swept those handily.
In Virginia's 2017 gubernatorial race, Democrat Ralph Northam (then-Lt. Gov.) trounced former RNC chair Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45% — a 9-point margin and the widest Democratic win in Virginia since 1985. (Recall also that the 1985 election was one year after President Ronald Reagan won re-election. In 1981, the year after Reagan's first win, Democrat Charles Robb defeated Republican J. Marshall Coleman 53.52% to 46.42% — a not-too-shabby 7.1-point margin.) Virginia registered voter turnout in 2017 was the highest in 20 years, at 47%.
This year, Virginia Democrats were even more rabid and motivated. Registered voter turnout was the highest ever for a Virginia governor’s race at 65.96% of registered voters, and Democrat Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears 55% to 44.8%, a 10.2-point margin — nice, but not a whole lot bigger than the last anti-Trump wave in that state.
Likewise, in New Jersey in 2017, Democrat Phil Murphy crushed Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno 56% to 41.9%, a punishing 14.1-point difference. Democrats also regained trifecta control of the state (governorship and both legislative chambers) for the first time since 2009. Compare to this year: Democrat Mikie "I was a Navy helicopter pilot!!!" Sherrill beat Republican Jack Ciattarelli 56.3% to 43%. At 13.3 points, this was actually a lower margin of victory than Jersey Dems scored in their first anti-Trump tantrum.
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And the result was 2018 the Dems took the House and the impeachements began. So make sure you vote in next years midterms.
Not a good trend. If we’re to compare the 2025 local election results to the 2017 ones, does that mean would should expect the Dims to take the House in 2026 like they did in 2018?
The fact that welfare-socialist NY city chose another socialist as mayor hardly a surprise.
The fact that one-party, leftist, electoral fraud California approved a ballot measure in an off-year, to increase one-party, leftist control is also not a surprise.
I doubt turnout of voters was that high. Turnout of mail-in ballots maybe.
Abortion was the big issue that year.
Yeah and we got slammed in 2018 as well. Not exactly a comforting post.
I know the source isn’t great. But I’m just giving you some sunshine that everyone here is spouting.
In the midterms during President Trump’s first term of office, Republicans retained the Senate, which historically doesn’t occur.
Yeah...and how did THAT work out in 2018 and 2020?
Chill out, indeed...
Better kick it into high gear....
I vote in every election. No matter how small.
Correct.
Ugh...
And we know how 2017 and 2020 worked out ! So yeah. Let’s get activated.
Winsome had TDS. She was a terrible candidate for VA governor. Don’t read too much into this defeat.
Winsome Sears’ candidacy in Virginia did not cause the national climate to be heavily pro-Democrat in every part of the country that had elections. The much larger margins than expected in New Jersey were not caused by Winsome Sears’s candidacy in Virginia, nor were the losses in Georgia.
The Democrats vastly outraised and outworked us. Again. Democrats turned out in Democrat areas. Democrats turned out in Republican areas. Republicans turned out...nowhere.
Trying to blame Trump is also ridiculous - this is a problem that predates him. It actually didn’t use to be this way. We used to pay attention to even the most minuscule races on the ballot. (of course when I say “we”, I mean the right in general, not us on this forum). Remember all those years ago everyone across the conservative spectrum - talk radio, news forums, you name it - was glued for weeks, even months, ahead of things like a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin? A special election for a House seat in Georgia? We were on it - all hands on deck. Somewhere we lost that...and the Democrats started doing what we used to do - paying attention to even the most “minor” of races and opening their wallets and working them like their life depended on it. They know, as we used to know, even these small races can end up having a national impact...especially collectively. This is what Soros and similar orgs do - identifying and pumping cash and organization into even the smallest of local races to chip away under the surface.
We have to get it in gear and that mojo back. Zero reason we should have not the news flow and organization to have pumped tens of millions of buckets into each candidate’s campaign. They were left twisting in the wind - yet again - to an onslaught they could not respond to.
Winsome Sears’ candidacy in Virginia did not cause the national climate to be heavily pro-Democrat in every part of the country that had elections. The much larger margins than expected in New Jersey were not caused by Winsome Sears’s candidacy in Virginia, nor were the losses in Georgia.
The Democrats vastly outraised and outworked us. Again. Democrats turned out in Democrat areas. Democrats turned out in Republican areas. Republicans turned out...nowhere.
Trying to blame Trump is also ridiculous - this is a problem that predates him. It actually didn’t use to be this way. We used to pay attention to even the most minuscule races on the ballot. (of course when I say “we”, I mean the right in general, not us on this forum). Remember all those years ago everyone across the conservative spectrum - talk radio, news forums, you name it - was glued for weeks, even months, ahead of things like a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin? A special election for a House seat in Georgia? We were on it - all hands on deck. Somewhere we lost that...and the Democrats started doing what we used to do - paying attention to even the most “minor” of races and opening their wallets and working them like their life depended on it. They know, as we used to know, even these small races can end up having a national impact...especially collectively. This is what Soros and similar orgs do - identifying and pumping cash and organization into even the smallest of local races to chip away under the surface.
We have to get it in gear and that mojo back. Zero reason we should have not the news flow and organization to have pumped tens of millions of *bucks* into each candidate’s campaign. They were left twisting in the wind - yet again - to an onslaught they could not respond to.
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