A must-win for Dems in Virginia

[bolobaby]

@dfwgator

"Didn't embrace Trump"

Do you really not know how you sound?

We've long established that the Trumpettes are tone deaf.

[Silver Pines]

Oh..I certainly think they can win...but to think a Repub could win in Va is dreaming..at least right now.

@mystery-ak

My state is pretty much screwed.  Permanently.

[corbe]

   That's bad news @CatherineofAragon but the good side of that is it will probably widen the gap between the clintonistas and the communists and even further fracture the dem party, Lord knows what shape the GOP will be in by then.

[Hoodat]

It was Gillespie who failed to embrace Trump, not the other way around.  Trump was merely being a good soldier.

It is the Virginia GOP that rejected Conservatism quite some time ago.  The last Conservative governor was John Dalton.

[Cripplecreek]

We've long established that the Trumpettes are tone deaf.

Nothing will ever be their fault and certainly not dear leader's fault.

[dfwgator]

It is the Virginia GOP that rejected Conservatism quite some time ago.  The last Conservative governor was John Dalton.

Well now Virginia gets to reap the whirlwind, enjoy.

[Frank Cannon]

Sooo. What elected office is left for the Establishment to stick Gillespie in now? Any school board elections coming up?

[edpc]

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for.


Somebody please give Donnie a hug.....

[Smokin Joe]

Virginia is quickly becoming the Commonwealth of South Maryland.

The only way the GOPe can retain power is to have democrat boogeymen to run against. So people can vote for the non-democrat next time. Anyone remotely conservative gets into office, and the GOPe loses.

[Silver Pines]

   That's bad news @CatherineofAragon but the good side of that is it will probably widen the gap between the clintonistas and the communists and even further fracture the dem party, Lord knows what shape the GOP will be in by then.

@corbe

Honestly, I think the GOP is just an ineffectual, pathetic mess.  I'm trying to understand how and why Republican voters didn't turn out after four years of McAuliffe. 

And the first trans state senator---really??  If you feel a seismic shift today, it's George Washington flopping in his grave.  It makes me sick.

[Gefn]

@mystery-ak

My state is pretty much screwed.  Permanently.

I'm sorry @CatherineofAragon

I totally get it too. Wanna start our own state? Might I recommend a cat with a donut on the flag? Grumpy Cat saying don't tread on me?

[Silver Pines]

Nothing will ever be their fault and certainly not dear leader's fault.

@Cripplecreek

"Just a good soldier", lol.

[Jazzhead]

  Tucker Carlson addressing the disgusting call-to-race war that may have tipped the VA election for the Dems

[LMAO]

If I was a resident of Maine, I would be concerned with Maine voting expansion of Medicaid recipients

[DiogenesLamp]

The bottom line is that NoVa is now filled with Marylanders who have escaped the hell hole they built north of the Potomac in favor of the excellent schools, lower cost of living, and low taxes of Fairfax County, and are now turning that county into the same type of hell hole they built in Montgomery and Fredrick counties, Md.

Liberals lost the capacity to learn.  They implement policies that destroy their cost of living, move to a new place, and do the exact same thing all over again.

You want to turn Virginia back into a Conservative state?  Then cut back the size of the federal government.  The only reason those people live near DC is because of all the government spending.  If Republicans actually did what they claim to be for, then we would be celebrating the election of Mark Obenshain as the new governor while wishing the best for outgoing governor Cuccinelli.  But Republicans choose to dig their own graves instead.  At least Democrats understand power.  They read 1984 and learned from it in a bad way.

This is the most accurate assessment of what is going on that I have seen so far in all the comments.   


The fundamentals are moving Virginia towards the Democrats.   Till we cut the revenue stream from Washington DC that flows out to Virginia,   the state will continue moving in  the direction of supporting people who keep those money streams flowing. 

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/359297-virginia-dems-set-to-make-gains-in-house-of-delegates
Dems see gains in Virginia's House of Delegates

[Concerned]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/359297-virginia-dems-set-to-make-gains-in-house-of-delegates
Dems see gains in Virginia's House of Delegates

This is the biggest story of night IMO and is an alarming message for Republicans looking forward to the mid-terms.

[Hoodat]

@corbe

Honestly, I think the GOP is just an ineffectual, pathetic mess.  I'm trying to understand how and why Republican voters didn't turn out after four years of McAuliffe.

It is because the state GOP helped McAuliffe get elected by stabbing Cuccinelli in the back and then not fighting for Obenshain who openly won the AG spot.

Seriously, the state GOP is the real enemy here.   They stood idly by while Democrats stole the AG seat in 2013, turning a 1200-vote victory into a 900-vote loss.  This loss effectively ended Virginia's challenge to the Obamacare law.  And it all happened because Bill Bolling got his feelings hurt.  To hell with them all.

If there were a Conservative party in the Commonwealth, voters would support it.  But it is clear they will not support Democrat-lite.

[edpc]

Meanwhile, the alphabet soup lobby's chosen one, Danica Roem, now has knocked off one of the most entrenched members of the Virginia Assembly, Bob Marshall.

Well, Danica has a reputation for turning things outside in.

[Silver Pines]

I'm sorry @CatherineofAragon

I totally get it too. Wanna start our own state? Might I recommend a cat with a donut on the flag? Grumpy Cat saying don't tread on me?

@Freya

At this point I'm thinking a flag with a fifth of Night Train Express.

[musiclady]

@dfwgator

"Didn't embrace Trump"

Do you really not know how you sound?

Apparently not.

We must "embrace" you know, or we are forever lost...... 

My opinion has been, and still is,  that Trump will do to the GOP what Obama has done for the Dems.

The difference is that there was a little spark in the GOP worth saving, and nothing in the Dem party.

That spark is being doused by those "embracing" Trump.

[Hoodat]

At this point I'm thinking a flag with a fifth of Night Train Express.

[Right_in_Virginia]

...We must "embrace" you know, or we are forever lost...... 

No, the Republicans do not have to "embrace" the President and his policies.  But those who do not should have a Plan B to replace the republican, democrat and independent voters they will lose. 

Like the voters who waited on lines 2.5 miles long for candidate Trump's "Midnight Rally" on Nov. 8, 2017 in Leesburg, Virginia:

[Hoodat]

No, the Republicans do have to "embrace" the President and his policies.

Which of the President's policies did Gillespie fail to embrace?

[Emjay]

This is the biggest story of night IMO and is an alarming message for Republicans looking forward to the mid-terms.

The biggest story?  That a democrat state voted for a democrat.  Don't think so, and I'm not at all alarmed about the mid-terms... I think they will go Republican.