Posted on 04/23/2015 6:54:35 AM PDT by C19fan
As two of Virginia's top Democrats weigh running for governor in 2017, potentially against each other, they are embracing traditionally liberal issues in a way that would have been politically toxic just years ago in the Upper South state.
The bet that both Attorney General Mark Herring and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam are making is not only that the strongest possible progressive record would help win a Democratic primary, but that it will also help in the general election. Nationally, Democrats have grown emboldened on cultural issues over the past few years, and Virginia—where demographic shifts have widened their path to victory through diversified, left-leaning urban and suburban regions—might be the place feeling that trend most acutely.
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I was in one part of DC surrounding Virginia...I forget where but I’d have sworn I was in India or someplace similar. I’m guessing that area is jam packed with DC government leeches of all varieties except traditional Virginia. My guess is that their voting block is extremely huge with respect to the rest of the state.
The illegals are flooding VA just like Texas, soon both states will be socialist states.
NOVA (northern VA) is outvoting ROVA (rest of VA) because of the influx of northeast liberals and illegal aliens.
I’m already considering my escape plans should it get any worse.
Our legislature is still pretty conservative, but statewide races seem to be a lost cause. That’s how we wound up with Clinton’s Bag Man as Gov.
If so its because the cancer is spreading out from DC. If you know the people that live there you’d say no way in hell (I have family there). Now their politics probably or the reasons stated...
I fully believe it is because of very tight geographical imbalance of the demographic - DC disease. I think the rest of Virginia is as it has always been. They have just been infested and outnumbered now.
Take a look at NY state...there are probably three small (geographically) districts/cities that are rabid Democrat liberal. The rest of the state is what I’d consider normal American. Problem is the voting population size in those three areas.
>> statewide races seem to be a lost cause <<
If so, why did Ed Gillespie come within a hair’s breadth of beating Timmy Kaine last November?
Oops! I guess it wasn’t Timmy Kaine but Marco Warner that Ed Gillespie almost beat!
He could have won had he not been a cheap labor importer and afraid to hang Warner’s vote for amnesty around his neck. Unfortunately, he wanted amnesty also.
If the GOP wants to win, they must stand for the rule of law and the citizens.
McAuliffe didn’t even get 50% and won with a 3rd party in the race(and even then there were questions But of course they spin this as some major Lib victory.
A lot of northerners are moving South, but that also gives us an opportunity to take some northern states soon. For example, Wisconsin used to be pretty blue but now is a good purple going towards red. Ohio the same way. Even Michigan has some promise. Eventually Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire may be able to move to Republican side. When people move south they weeds out the population and gives a great opportunity for Republicans to work on getting northern states into their column.
They are all becoming Liberal states. Until we get some way to push back against the constant stream of liberal propaganda coming from the news and entertainment industries, we are going to see the trend continue with various rates in various states.
>> [Gillespie] could have won had he not been a cheap labor importer <<
OK. So first you say that statewide races in Virginia are a “lost cause” and then you tell me that Gillespie could have won if only he had been tougher on immigration.
Unless I’m totally misunderstanding something here, it seems to me that both statements cannot be simultaneously true.
“Becoming?”
It’s been that way for a while now. I weep for my state.
Shoud have said “almost a lost cause”. Cuccinelli could have won against Clinton’s Bag Man for Gov. if he had not been undermined by the VAGOP. The party has recently had a shake-up and many of the cheap labor importers, friends of Cantor’s, have been booted. We may have better prospects in the future, I hope.....
>> McAuliffe didn’t even get 50% and won with a 3rd party in the race <<
Good point. And don’t forget that the federal persecution of Bob McDonnell had a big “spillover” effect on Ken Cucinelli. Without that prosecutorial farce, and without the government shutdown that occurred almost simultaneously with the election, Cucinelli would have done much better.
I live in rural central Virginia. We’re still red here, but I don’t know how long it will last.
Appomattox is a few miles away from me, and when I go down there to the Kroger or the Walmart, those stores are always overrun with Muslims. It’s surreal. One day I asked a checkout lady, “What is this anymore, Virginia or Afghanistan?” She rolled her eyes and said, “Tell me about it, honey.”
With 51 million illegal aliens, the entire country will be super-liberal in about 10 years.
I feel for you. Really. It’s not hard to figure why though. Look at the Drudge headliner. 51 million immigrants in the last 8 years alone. They are responsible for 82% of the population growth. They aren’t voting Republican.
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