I don't believe they had any before, did they?
The concern for Republicans is that the suburbs are going to be the tie-breakers in these types of elections, and Gillispie got annihilated in the suburbs.
They've been the big reason why Virginia went blue nine years ago. But if the Republicans are losing Tidewater now then that, to me, would be pretty disturbing.
It used to be that the rest of the state could offset certain Richmond-area and Tidewater zip codes and remain red overall.
No more, with Alexandria and Fairfax having been overrun by open border / amnesty initiatives and .gov swamp-like dependents.
Continued growth of fedgov from BJ, Shrub and Bams has doomed Northern VA to its current fate.
The Dems ran ads against Adams saying he wants to take away access to contraception. That ad may have impacted R's all over northern VA, not just Attorney General. Those ads were under the radar as far as media attention but millions saw them.
This BS is not going away until it gets directly confronted by the Republicans, which didn't happen in this race. In the CO Senate race a few years ago the Republican won easily but lost by a landslide among young women, where the Dem was making the same claim.
I said district, but I meant precinct.
The Tidewater area is big, and it’s not what people think it is. It’s the same thing when people say, “San Diego is a navy town,” which means the Dems win it 60-40 instead of 70-30.
If I’m a Republican pol in Virginia, the thing that terrifies me is what happened in Loudoun County and Prince William County. They are the two huge counties slightly to the West of Fairfax and Arlington. Fairfax and Arlington are heavy Dem. Loudoun and PWC have traditionally been narrowly Democratic. And you can get Republican representatives and delegates out of those counties.
The Republicans were utterly decimated in those two counties last night. With their population growth, if this trend continues, Virginia will be a mini version of California in 20 years where no Republican has any hope for statewide office and the rural part of the state is ruled by their urban counterparts.