I personally know a guy who ran for Virginia State Senate as a Republican. He got into the race because he was horrified by Northam’s comments about post-birth abortion. A more decent, salt-of-the-earth guy you could not hope to meet.
He got blown out by nearly ten points. But Virginians did elect a Democrat Senator who had once gone to jail on a morals charge.
Virginians deserve whatever happens to them at this point IMHO.
Reason is their proximity to a ‘sickness’ called DCitis ?
The Republicans are the Democrats and vice versa. That is why nothing has happened. Yet. Trump is bringing sun light. Trump still has cards to play, and still could call up millions of armed Deplorables with a tweet. Not worried.
Easy. Because the Ed Gillespie types in the state party allowed a ton of dems to run unopposed.
Probably intentional, like Ryan getting his minions to retire to hand the US House to the dems.
Sounds like the Virginia GOP is as useless and incompetent as the NY GOP.
NY GOP: “Let pick another loser to run this year!”
NY GOP person2 : “OK”
A concerted effort has to be made to reach African-American voters. It must be publicized how the Democrats situate their genocidal abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods. It must also be made clear how the Democrats herd minority children into union controlled, horrible schools and perpetuate ignorance and failure. Also must not be afraid to criticize the phony black preachers who take huge bribes from the Democrats to sell out their own people. Say what is necessary and fight the Democrats with Trump style boldness or slither away.
Reality bites. If I were a person with zeal for political office, there’s no way I’d waste time and money running for an office where the deck is so seriously stacked against me as it is in most of the population centers of VA. The demographic there has completely flipped. So if one conservative soul should brave those odds, it would be admirably courageous, but quixotic.
Residents there represent a morphing from the most stalwart exponents of states’ rights into a miasma of bureaucrats, ethnics, college towns, social services and even military/industrial bureaucrats.
However, the Virginia Republican PartyCorrected.failedrefused to field viable candidates …
Any VA election autopsy that doesn’t include a discussion of the demographic effects of immigration (esp. legal, since those are the ones who actually vote) is simply trying to con you.
It also looks like the Republicans did not contest races in certain districts with unfavorable minority majority demographics. That sort of worn-out, defeatist thinking has to stop.
No doubt it will stop when Virginia is California upon the Atlantic.
Virginia is a lost cause. I had previously lived there for almost 3 years. The number one reason is demographics. Democrats from all over the country move to Virginia for their first job out of college, and they live in northern Virginia to avoid the high taxes and commute from Maryland and D.C. Also, Northern Virginia looks like South Africa, Baghdad, India, and Mexico depending on the neighborhood you are in. I have never met a republican in my entire life in Virginia with the exception of a moral and ethical principled lightweight who works in the area. None of the white women in Virginia are worth dating. They are vapid, empty shells of a former American blood line. They are more likely to go to a rap music concert than vote for a republican any day of the week. Also, to be honest, this is my experience in nearly every major city I have lived in. Including Cody, Wyoming. Which is current being colonized by blacks, Mexicans, and Indians(From India). The last time I picked my little cousins up from kindergarten, they were one of a few white kids in their grade. This included the 1st grade, and Pre-K. This country is toast. I suggest you prepare accordingly. We have long past the demographic winter because Arabs and Hispanics can, and do, Identify as white. I am sad to say, there is little hope for this country because most white men are overweight betas who worship diversity and wish they were famous gangster rappers. I have two in my family. I am sure the situation is similar in other families.
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The GOP threw VA under the bus. Northern VA RINOS will not play nice so they are giving the state to the Dems.