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A tranny got voted in? Good Lord...maybe they will be the new hot bed for the mass exodus from California. We're sick of them here in Texas.
OK, explain how he's compromised.
A tranny got voted in? Good Lord...maybe they will be the new hot bed for the mass exodus from California. We're sick of them here in Texas.
Mood right now
It's definitely not much of a surprise that VA voted for Democrats in the governorship. It's a blue state that Hilary carried. What is pretty shocking is the fact that this was a wave election where the control of the state house may have flipped (or at least ended in a tie) and that the margin was so big. It's not just VA either, as Medicare expansion won in Maine. When you couple that with the record ACA signups, you have a hard time painting a positive picture for Trump. The GOP was feeling OK after the special elections that they carried recently (Georgia, for example) but those were extremely favorable GOP locations. What happened in VA today was Democratic pickups in the statehouse unlike anything seen in over 100 years which includes places that have long been held by the GOP.
Of course the GOP will try to spin it, but the magnitude of the loss for them tonight is pretty much worst case scenario.
Both of these people won too thank god
Cricket fields!
Fake news, false flag, possibly a mailer from the Podesta group, IMO...
Breitbart/Trump conservatives were the ones smugly acting like today was when they showed the world that they were the alpha male, dominant political group in this country, and they were pretty resoundingly told to off.
What's with the hivemind like at ude of conservatives? Is this going to be like a talking point now?
I have a few cool conservative friends and they are brought this up separately.
Seems the dems could get the majority after all.
They're +1 at the moment. Lots of races seem to be deadlocked so a recount will happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/re...eral-elections
lol
Any conservative that expected to win anything in Virginia of all states is a moron.
Wow, how many do you know
Why are republicans acting like Virginia has always voted blue when in fact it's just now starting to happen? Virginia used to be republican stronghold for decades.
It has leaned blue since Obama won. That's not long at all in terms of voting when you take into account people aren't voting every year.
It's the same reason why until last night republicans still controlled the house of delegates in Virginia.
Democratic turnout inside the state was insane though compared to republican turnout and Dems won seats in Georgia
Outside of the '70s and the '90s, Virginia has always been a purple state at absolute minimum and usually a blue state at the state level:Why are republicans acting like Virginia has always voted blue when in fact it's just now starting to happen? Virginia used to be republican stronghold for decades.
It has leaned blue since Obama won. That's not long at all in terms of voting when you take into account people aren't voting every year.
It's the same reason why until last night republicans still controlled the house of delegates in Virginia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.6d34915b5e37
With the population growth in Northern Virginia since the early 2000s, fueled overwhelmingly by Democrat voters, they're a solid blue state now.
Meh. All Northam did to win was run up the score in the DC suburbs, Richmond and Hampton Roads. Any Democrat could do that.
As for Georgia, the Democrats gained a whopping three seats. In one of those districts, there were three Republicans splitting the vote vs. one Democrat. The state legislature remains overwhelmingly Republican.
All this talk of "the Democrats' comeback" still sounds like wishful thinking at this point.
One party government, be it Democratic or Republican is bad. Without a choice, and the potential for negative feedback, you end up with Ted effing Cruz.
I predict a rapid uptick in Republican ing about gerrymandering, especially in states whose legislatures flip to Democratic in the next few years.Why are republicans acting like Virginia has always voted blue when in fact it's just now starting to happen? Virginia used to be republican stronghold for decades.
It has leaned blue since Obama won. That's not long at all in terms of voting when you take into account people aren't voting every year.
It's the same reason why until last night republicans still controlled the house of delegates in Virginia.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...hFY?li=BBnb7Kz"Like animals sensing the earthquake before it hits, members of Congress are finely attuned to potential political waves," said Doug Heye, a GOP strategist and former congressional aide who, along with others, is predicting more Republicans will announce soon that they won't seek re-election.
Republicans seek new path after failure of Gillespie’s ‘Trumpism without Trump’https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...nl_most&wpmm=1
Trump just made a bad night for Republicans much worse for himself
Trump wasted no time in distancing himself from Gillespie, enjoying the spaciousness of his now-280-character tweets.
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
7:40 PM - Nov 7, 2017
This was not a wise tweet.
We’ve noted before that Trump has an insurance premium against any calls for his impeachment.
His popularity with Republicans has slipped since the beginning of his presidency, but he’s still very popular with them, particularly more conservative members of his party.
(Per Gallup, more than 9 in 10 conservative Republicans approve of Trump.)
Because Republican Party primaries see an overrepresentation of conservatives, that meant that Republicans eager to win reelection to Congress were less likely to turn on the president.
His claim that the GOP won four of four federal races misses a few important points.
The first is that those races were in Republican-held districts.
The second is that the Democrats saw big gains in most of those races relative to past elections.
The third is that the figure is actually four of five;
Trump likes to ignore a race in California won by the Democrats.
But it also does something very dangerous for Trump right now.
It shows, yet again, that he isn’t loyal to his political partners.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/07/trump-just-made-a-bad-night-for-republicans-much-worse-for-himself/?undefined=&utm_term=.4ad2ccf7b569&wpisrc=nl_most& wpmm=1
Or Bernie Sanders.
I don't disagree that a one-party government isn't a good thing. I'm just saying, once you look at the facts, the Democrats' wins yesterday were nowhere near as impressive as they're being hyped up to be.
Agree to some extent. The wave is expected at this point. They did about as well as they should have.“Flipping 14 seats from red to blue in VA is the biggest Democratic pick-up since 1899,” wrote Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, in a tweet.
More fund-raising, more turnout, and a very popular ex-president and ex-vice-president stumping for Democratic candidates.
National level GOP congress people are bailing in unusual numbers, meaning that the GOP will have primary battles that will likely put some outright nutters on the ballot for Democrats to slam-dunk on.
At the same time Democrats are building a deep bench of candidates with enough funds to be credible.
I guess we will get to see what the next 12 months bring. A steady drip of indictments of Trump campaign, and Trump white house officials will keep the GOP on the back heel.
Trump will, ironically, be the best thing that happened to the Democrats in years.
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