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Live Election Report From Virginia

Posted on 11/07/2017 10:38:40 AM PST by SarahPalin2012

I just voted in SW Virginia. Rural area, goes usually about 58-42 for the good guys (or at least the less-evil guys). More cars than usual for off year elections but no real wait inside. This was about noon. I'd guess that it was half of 2016 (Trump), and about equal to when Cuccinelli lost a very close race without any establishment help in 2013 to McAuliffe. Although the Dems have an edge in VA now, I still think it is very winnable for Republicans. My hope is that we pull out a win in a close election. For those conservatives sitting out because Gillespie is kind of gutless, I know you won't listen but it still needs to be said. You are not helping.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: braking; edgillespie; election; elections; gillespie; governor; northam; northamwins; ralphnortham; rural; va2017; vagov2017; virginia
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To: PUGACHEV
A cold rain is falling in NOVA this afternoon. The timing is perfect. It’s the first really cold unpleasant day of the season.

I never did understand how weather would affect turnout. Are people really that fickle that they won't go out to vote if is raining or cold outside?

21 posted on 11/07/2017 10:52:14 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: outofsalt

I got into an argument with one of those guys here on FR last week.

The time for such purity is during the primary. When that’s over, you vote party and who will do the least damage.

Least damage vote never goes to the leftist.


22 posted on 11/07/2017 10:53:12 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: SamAdams76

Snowflakes melt in the rain.


23 posted on 11/07/2017 10:54:45 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: cyclotic

Well stated.

Or as I like to say: If you can’t vote for a candidate, at least vote against a candidate.


24 posted on 11/07/2017 10:57:06 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: Interesting Times

I voted at 7am at a blue NoVA precinct in Arlington. Nol lines, no waiting.


25 posted on 11/07/2017 10:57:07 AM PST by smartin (The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.)
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To: cyclotic

Me too :( Been quite a few, sadly.


26 posted on 11/07/2017 10:57:55 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Red Badger

If I were a federal government employee living in North Virginia, I would do one of two things today, re: voting. I would either vote for Republican, Conservative, Ed Gillespie or, I would just sit home on my hands and not vote at all!!! Why?

Casting a vote for Ralph Northam does you no good whatsoever and may cost you your job with the Federal Government. And, that Clintonite, Uesless, Criminal, Governor of yours, Terry McAullife cannot help you at all, either.

All POTUS, Trump needs to do is look at the voting results and, if he not happy, he just singles out about 100,000-200,000 Federal workers and lays them off, knowing that they will not be missed by one iota at all!!! So....Vote for Ralph Northam at your own employment peril!!! Be smart...think strategically, fools!!


27 posted on 11/07/2017 10:58:52 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Genoa
Snowflakes melt in the rain.

Like tears in rain ...


28 posted on 11/07/2017 10:59:22 AM PST by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: outofsalt

It’s very sad that people’s pride overrides the better choices.

The guy I argued with said he was sitting out. I reminded him that he is then voiceless and not allowed to complain or express his opinion, cause he forfeited that right.


29 posted on 11/07/2017 10:59:48 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: SamAdams76
I never did understand how weather would affect turnout. Are people really that fickle that they won't go out to vote if is raining or cold outside?

The short answer is yes, definitely. In NOVA, many Democratic voters are government employees who suffer long commutes in our horribly tied-up traffic. The last thing they would want to do is make another detour to stand in line and vote, especially when it gets dark now around 5:30 and it's cold and rainy, and more so when all the local news outlets are predicting a Democratic win. Republicans are typically more motivated.

30 posted on 11/07/2017 11:03:22 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: DIRTYSECRET

+1. Good point. Sure hope that happens. RATS would do it, guaranteed, if it would help their candidates. Fight fire with fire..........


31 posted on 11/07/2017 11:03:35 AM PST by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat' PR firm. Mainstream "news" = Fiat news.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
"What time will they call it?"

If the Democrat leads by 20 votes or more with 12% or more of the precincts in, they'll call it as soon as the polls close.

If, with 99% of the precincts reporting, Gillespie has a 75,000 or more vote lead, they might call it then.

32 posted on 11/07/2017 11:04:07 AM PST by daler
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To: SarahPalin2012

“Average” turnout at my SWVA precinct. Maybe up a hair.


33 posted on 11/07/2017 11:04:23 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: daler

If the Democrat wins,

The media will pronounce it is a referendum on Trump’s policies.

If the Republican wins, they will pronounce Russia still has influence in our political process.


34 posted on 11/07/2017 11:10:21 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: outofsalt

Zactly!


35 posted on 11/07/2017 11:12:16 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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To: Interesting Times

That is good news!...................


36 posted on 11/07/2017 11:13:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: SamAdams76

Yes, it happens over and over.

Democrats don’t come out in bad weather to vote..................


37 posted on 11/07/2017 11:15:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: SarahPalin2012

Just voted in the north.


38 posted on 11/07/2017 11:19:43 AM PST by Cripplehawk
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To: Interesting Times
I voted at 10:00 am at a blue Northern Virginia precinct in Fairfax. There was no line.

Interesting. I voted about the same time, but at a very, very red NoVA precinct (further out 66). I was shocked to see a line, since this is unusual in this area and, it was raining. They said it had been very steady all morning. Note, that this is a quite deplorable area, chock full of deplorable people, so take it FWIW, but a good sign. I doubt Northam was particularly popular here.

Rain falling steadily. Hopefully, it will suppress the vote in your neck of the woods. I wasn't going to vote (torn between the emotional urge to vote for R over D, and reason which says to sit it out, and let the establishment Republicans wither on the vine), but that ad put me over the top. Plus, Gillespie has been talking a decent game, at least.
39 posted on 11/07/2017 11:20:31 AM PST by jjsheridan5
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To: Salvavida
Voted at 7:30AM in Manassas....extremely light traffic. I saw two voters in the whole joint besides me.

~10 miles west of you. As you can imagine, a slightly different demographic and political mindset (/s). Anyway, it may have just been timing, but it was roughly as crowded as the Presidential election.
40 posted on 11/07/2017 11:23:50 AM PST by jjsheridan5
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