This has now happened 11 of the last 12 times. The President's party lost the Virginia gubernatorial race. It’s unfortunate, since Virginia Dems did a lot of good things with their trifecta, but being the in-party is just a huge factor that is enormously difficult to overcome:ĭemocrats should do good things because doing good things is good, and messaging should generally focus on popular things, and both of these things are far less important than structural factors in determining election outcomes - Scott Lemieux November 3, 2021
Many of them fail, including Gillispie in 2017. Having said that, it’s not as if Youngkin has done anything new indeed, “race-baiting argle-bargle with little-to-no policy content” is pretty much what Republican campaigns are now.
I don’t know what is gonna happen in VA tonight but there is a palpable excitement among certain ostensibly neutral reporters and analysts whenever some white identity politics shiny object seems to be effective politically.- Adam Serwer 🍝 November 2, 2021 Yougkin has apparently won, and a lot of reporters and pundits are going to be very excited:
