The Virginia race is said to be the race that will tell which way the country is shifting politically and election day is about 5 weeks out. It's been 12 years since Republicans have won a state wide race however the state was at one time a battleground state and has a history of defeating the party in the whitehouse. The one exception being Govenor McAuliffe who won in 2013 with his power in party. McAuliffe was 9 points over Younkin in some polls several weeks ago. The polls have since shown a closer race with Younkin 5 points ahead in one poll just recently. Now a new conservative group, Accountability Virginia PAC is targeting Republicans on social media with ads saying the NRA has not endorsed Younkin. The ads appear to be a attempt to push voters away from Younkin and are only targeting deep red counties in Virgina. The ads has been seen over 1 million times. However the group is not actually a conservative group. It's secretly a Democratic group posing as conservatives. The online websites donation page is accessed through ActBlue. The main Democratic fundraising platform and the bank they use is frequently used by Democrats. Sounds like the Democrats are in panick mode. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-governor-race-dem-group-poses-republicans
Wow. That is desperate. Dems' sneaky sabotage https://www.axios.com/democrats-youngkin-virginia-pac-14c70252-56ff-455e-b7a6-6afbdc570332.html The fact that a Republican political neophyte is leading a former Democratic governor in this year's Virginia gubernatorial race illustrates how bad things are going for Dems. Youngkin shouldn't be close much less leading in this race.
Virginia has already been taken over by the DC culture of obtaining largesse through the ballot box. Once you go there it's hard to go back to pure democracy.
Virginia has shifted blue over the last decade and a defeat there for Democrats would sound the warning alarm that they are in trouble come 2022 for the midterms.
I think it's amazing that we have made it a toss up race. Maybe Virgina can become a swing state again. We just have to get those independent votes. Younkin should be way behind in the polls and the fact he is not is why the Democrats are panicking. This is also not a 2-1 voter advantage for Democrats like CA is. There is also a Govenor race in NJ which I believe the Democrat is winning.
Virginia has become the home of the massive federal government employees and they vote their pocketbooks.
The NRA is basically done for. The fact that the banners still can't seem to make any meaningful legal headway in disarming America should be a clue by now that it was never the NRA preventing gun control in the first place, but rather good old fashioned grass roots support for the right to bear arms. The NRA was just riding that support, not generating it.
How does the election of a governor in Georgia change the fact that the Democrats control the country's destiny almost unopposed for another year? Is that really the smell of panic you smell?
I haven’t heard that they’ve endorsed any candidates. But their membership is listed as 5 million plus, and those members vote. I have never been a member but I listen to the NRA recommendations and I vote 2A issues.
There actually isn't a whole lot on record regarding Youngkin's stance on many issues. Regarding no guns for no fly lists, he did say: "No, it is unconstitutional to deny someone’s rights without due process" which is a good sign. And since most of the categories on ontheissues.org don't list anything for him, here's his position on a lot of things: Glenn Younkin’s Policies on Social Issues (isidewith.com) and holy crap this guy is great! I give him a 95% on the modernpaladin approval scale, and thats very high marks these days! I just wish I were voting in VA... or we'd get a Younkin here in WA.
I said Virginia. Not Georgia. This is a special election. If they lose in a deep blue state how can they be expected to do good in the midterms? I just read a liberal article saying Democrats are panicking in Virginia. Polls show Democrats there are not really excited or interested in the race.
Tell your friends in VA to vote for Younkin. VA needs better leadership. I'm happy to see Ralph Northam go. His white hood high school picture gave him alot of bad publicity and he deserved.
I think the Younkin ad campaign attacking TM as a police defunder is probably going to help him get his base and right-leaning independents out. Lots of Sheriffs and such appear on those ads. The real question will be whether TM can get Northern Virginia out. Virginia is one of those state where republicans can and often do over perform their polling but northern Virginia is so packed full of left-leaning democrats, strong turn out there will more than erase any gain Younkin can get elsewhere. To the GOP benefit in that regard, TM is campaigning on a platform focused at rural areas so that probably doesn't excite Alexadria and Fairfax counties much.
I agree. It's hard for Republicans to win in VA. I think the Democrats will come out as the winners but if the independents vote red that could change. Also Democrats are not excited and may not vote reducing the effect of Northern Virginia. Even a close race would send a message of how unpopular the Democrats really are.
Fairfax Schools Sues Special-Ed Parents, Demanding ‘Damages’ For Publicizing Embarrassing Records The Schools Gave Them. “It also sued another mother of a special-needs student who runs a blog that published portions of the records. The documents are billing records showing how FCPS paid Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm that hired now-Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe as a top advisor, to do much of what parents say is the school system’s dirty work, including seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by special-ed parents who allege that their children were systematically physically abused by educators.” McAuliffe is a real shitbird.
"MANSPLAINING AND WHITESPLAINING": Terry McAuliffe Tells Black Anchor That Bringing Up Critical Race Theory Is ‘Racist.’ All Blanton did was ask McAuliffe how he defined critical race theory. Blanton, undeterred by his White/Man Splainin' continued to press him on his definition of the term, as, one would need a definition in order to prove it’s not taught in the state. McAuliffe repeatedly refused, and that's not because he is telling the truth. You can't. He's lying and covering. "Critical race theory, which views all of American society as a power competition between races, has increasingly been incorporated into K-12 education over the past year." "Forty-seven percent of Virginians support a legal ban on critical race theory in public schools, while" only "36 percent would oppose such a" reasonable policy. "McAuliffe’s comments on critical race theory come in the context of his stated opinion that he doesn’t “think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”" "Polling shows that by a nineteen point margin, Virginians believe parents should have more control over classroom curriculums than school boards." It's a pretty Blue state, it would be a complete shock if McAuliffe blew this race, though he certainly deserves to lose. Government union workers are a major segment of the voting population and it's union government workers that are attacking parents and indoctrinating children into their theories of racial hate. They are pretty dumb too, though they do not lack for ruthless viciousness. "THEORY" means it's under consideration by supporters and opponents, yet these jack-booted thugs think that if you disagree with their theory that you are domestic terrorist and may be subject to the investigative tools reserved for ISIS, AQ, Osama Bin Laden.
Unless there's an act of Divine Intervention, the uber liberal northern counties, or more correctly the suburbs of The Swamp, along with the uber liberal major cities, will once again dominate poor Virginia's statewide elections.
Hell, they wouldn't admit it if they won each office by a single vote, they'd just crow they were handed a "mandate" and press on with their agenda.