Why A Virginia-Style Reckoning Is Likely Awaiting Your State’s Democrats Today
By: Margot Cleveland
November 08, 2022
The post-mortem on Virginia suggests Democrats across the country are about to be slaughtered at the ballot box.
Virginia voters turned the commonwealth stop-sign red in 2021, putting a halt to Democrat rule in an upset election that saw Republicans sweep state-wide offices and regain control of the House of Delegates. With the country in an even more dire condition now, and with many of the same on-the-ground concerns that caused voters to revolt in Virginia still enraging Americans, Democrats in other states might face the same shock by day’s end.
Soon after the upset victories scored last year in Virginia by Republicans Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares, who defeated their Democrat opponents in the races for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, respectively, the political post-mortem began. Pundits blamed both macro and micro issues for the devastating defeat Democrats suffered.
On a macro level, Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, “pointed to President Joe Biden’s low ratings as the primary reason that Glenn Youngkin flipped the Virginia governorship to Republican control.” At the time, Biden’s approval rating registered at 42 percent, and 71 percent of voters said the country was on the wrong track. Added to those negatives were Democrats’ accumulating problems such as the “messy withdrawal from Afghanistan” and “inflation and supply chain kinks that turned voters’ opinions of the economy sharply negative.”
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