re: #40 ckkatz

Iirc you are down in the Tidewater area. Any thoughts on what you have been seeing down there?

What I see up in the Northern Virginia area is that several counties, particularly Loudoun and Prince William (home of Corey Stewart) seem to be falling for the GQP culture wars. There is even an uncomfortable number of Youngkin signs in Western Fairfax County where I live.

And I have heard the same thing about the “white flight” counties around Richmond.

Hampton Roads has been pretty red for a long while. You might have heard of my former rep here in the 2nd District, a shitstain by the name of Scott Taylor. He lost his office during the ‘18 wave election in part because word got out in the weeks before the election that his office had been caught trying to get a third party candidate on the ballot to split the Dem vote. Then he made noises in ‘19 that he’d run against Tim Kaine, only to then decide (probably due to poor polling) to try and fail to get back his old seat by riding Trump’s (non-existent) coattails.

Realistically, it should be remembered that McAuliffe was pretty much counted out the first time he ran for the governor’s mansion, with all the talk about how he was “boring” compared to the charismatic dynamo that was Ken “Cucci” Cuccinelli. And that election was projected to be a nail-biter as well, with a lot of pundits predicting Cucci would win on a platform of abortion bans and race-baiting.