Sorry to see Virginia turn into another New York or Illinois. When you vote Democrat you’re gonna turn your state into a pile of ...
How is this a surprise? Isn’t the area around DC chock-full of liberal government workers?
Move the capital to the bootheel of Missouri, and let that land be the nation's capital. The bootheel is over 900 square miles, which is plenty of room for everybody. Also make a law that people who work in the nation's capital must live in the nation's capital.
What's left of D.C. should be returned to VA and MD, or declared a historical site.
The capital has too much influence on VA's elections.
This election had nothing to do with Gillespie being a RINO, never Trumper etc. It shows that Virginia has gone hard left. Those who say that a pro Trump candidate would have won are kidding themselves.
Jill Vogel and John Adams were good conservatives and they lost badly as well. Virginia’s legislature is going democrat as well as the executive branch. There is no more check on the radical left in this state.
Expect to see the statues come down. They may declare sanctuary cities just to insult Trump. Virginia = California now.
8 years of democrats giving billions of dollars in the DC area will do that. Those folks lined their pockets from big government.
Simple solution: Massively cut the government and get those rats out of Washington.
Do not underestimate the impact of Charlottesville, and the way the national and local media and Democrats exploited it to falsely smear Trump, Gillespie and the Dems with it.
I am sure this was huge voter fraud. The dems were scared and were not willing to loose another one. It had nothing to do with Gillespie. All three statewide Republican candidates had almost the exact same vote totals. The dems increased their vote numbers from 2013 on a cold rainy day. Also not likely. Most of it was around Richmond and Arlington.
Northern Virginia was over run by dems awhile ago
Trump lost Va so i am not really surprised
What can you say? This is the price of winning the White House and getting all those federal judicial picks: people tend to start voting the opposite party in local races and whatnot as a ‘check.’ Had Hillary won last year, I’ve little doubt Northam and Democrats wouldn’t have had a wave election in Virginia tonight.
All these smiling liberal aholes are soon going to find out that their taxes are going up through the roof. The rich ones won’t give a crap and the stupid ones will think that it’s just fine.
The working class just got screwed by the Dems and their imports, including the new voters of the Hispanics, Moslems, and rich liberals who are making northern Virginia into their playground but living in nearly white enclaves (we don’t mix with the po’ folk, you know).
Well, there will be another day and another payback if the Republicans can get their damned act together (which it hasn’t in northern Virginia. Too many reception RINOS and not enough ground-pounders right now. We need decent leadership from the younger and middle-aged conservatives. We older guys are physically worn down but mentally still as sharp as a Gurkha’s knife.
I just looked at the NY SLIMES results page for Virginia’s HoD. By my count, it appeared up to THIRTEEN incumbent Republicans were defeated. A couple of the races were very close, which might alter that number a bit.
I didn’t see ANY incumbent Demon Rats defeated.
Not good.
Let me ask, though, since I am not a Virginian: were these establishment Rs or true conservatives? Or a mix?
And what about the outrage from that racist Demon Rat ad—I thought that was going to motivate some Republican vote.
As for the gubernatorial race, keep in mind that from BUSH 1 until today, the winning party in BOTH Virginia and New Jersey has been the OPPOSITE party of the one occupying the Oval Office. Trump continues that trend. In other words, this was to be expected.
Looks like as a VA resident I might actually have to pay attention to what is going on in Richmond. With the influx of Northeasterners and 3rd worlders into NoVa this state might never elect another GOPer statewide for a long time or the best we can hope for is some RINO squish.
D.C. has been overflowing into and polluting VA for decades...
The is because of a rise in government employees or dependents in Virginia. It’s harder to drain the swamp when the electorate is largely swamp dwellers.
I wonder what percentage of registered voters participated. Any source for this?
Dems win and it will be good business for U-Haul.
A blue states voting blue, why is this shocking. Virginia has shifted this way for the last 20 years, New Jersey’s been gone.
Ironic and funny how lefties celebrate as they slit their own wrist, and embrace their own demise. But also alarming as they and those inclined to follow suite don’t see where this is leading.
Everything Democrats touch turns to shiite. Sorry to see this happen in historic VA. :(
Wisconsin has pulled herself up by the garters these past number of years after many years of Socialist Domination, Deep Debt and Union Corruption. Don’t give up ALL hope!
Hillary’s bib is full this morning of dream-drool about her being elected POTUS in 2020. This will truly begin the war in the Democrat party for whose the 2020 pick to run against Trump.