Va 2023 elections - the baseline for the US

gavroche wrote:

Hutch wrote:
This was the most pointless voting exercise for me yet here in Arlington


I think 8 elections were uncontested

A reminder of DC living!

Wait, what? Plenty of our elections are contested. Just in the D primary, with too many candidates splitting the opposition vote, and not the general election.

Facts matter.

I really hate how GQPers and the reporters that enable them (*ahem* Tom Sherwood in this instance *ahem*) say that education is a topic the GQP thinks they can run on. Most normal people think of education, as a topic, being improving the academic performance of students.

But the GQP views education as pushing book banning, parental meddling, public health interfering, school nurse slamming, restroom policing, and other fuckery that doesn't include improving the academic performance of students. Stop doing this, Tom.

Thousand wrote:
I really hate how GQPers and the reporters that enable them (*ahem* Tom Sherwood in this instance *ahem*) say that education is a topic the GQP thinks they can run on. Most normal people think of education, as a topic, being improving the academic performance of students.

But the GQP views education as pushing book banning, parental meddling, public health interfering, school nurse slamming, restroom policing, and other fuckery that doesn't include improving the academic performance of students. Stop doing this, Tom.

Isnt this exactly what Youngkin won on, to be fair?

Julian, wrote:
Isnt this exactly what Youngkin won on, to be fair?

The point is that reporters shouldn't ignorantly parrot the GQP when the GQP says they're running on "education."

Thousand wrote:
I really hate how GQPers and the reporters that enable them (*ahem* Tom Sherwood in this instance *ahem*) say that education is a topic the GQP thinks they can run on. Most normal people think of education, as a topic, being improving the academic performance of students.

But the GQP views education as pushing book banning, parental meddling, public health interfering, school nurse slamming, restroom policing, and other fuckery that doesn't include improving the academic performance of students. Stop doing this, Tom.

As the current push in education seem to be equity at the expense of excellence, I think that's something the Republicans could run on.They need to drop all the other sideshow crap.

Space wrote:
As the current push in education seem to be equity at the expense of excellence, I think that's something the Republicans could run on.They need to drop all the other sideshow crap.

What are you talking about? The sideshow crap is their entire platform.

Julian, wrote:

Thousand wrote:
I really hate how GQPers and the reporters that enable them (*ahem* Tom Sherwood in this instance *ahem*) say that education is a topic the GQP thinks they can run on. Most normal people think of education, as a topic, being improving the academic performance of students.

But the GQP views education as pushing book banning, parental meddling, public health interfering, school nurse slamming, restroom policing, and other fuckery that doesn't include improving the academic performance of students. Stop doing this, Tom.

Isnt this exactly what Youngkin won on, to be fair?

can confirm
it was a perfect storm between an off-off-year election, all the CRT drama and Covid/school policies
If younkin ran yesterday, he would have lost in a landslide

The good thing (for me at least) is VA is pretty much becoming a reliable, solid blue state, not only in General Elections but also in state elections too.

Thousand wrote:

Space wrote:
As the current push in education seem to be equity at the expense of excellence, I think that's something the Republicans could run on.They need to drop all the other sideshow crap.

What are you talking about? The sideshow crap is their entire platform.

And because of that, they lost. I'm saying there are education issues they could run on buy they choose to focus on the sideshow.

Space wrote:
And because of that, they lost. I'm saying there are education issues they could run on buy they choose to focus on the sideshow.

Amen. Refreshing to see VA voters consistently doing the right thing. Now about the whole MJ debacle…

more note of interest

a bunch of Moms for Liberty candidates lost in school board elections.. 

and in Philly where two seats  on the council are reserved for the minority party , both seats are now filled by people from the Working Family Party… seats which were in the past held by republicans…

kosmo wrote:
a bunch of Moms for Liberty candidates lost in school board elections..

Awesome

It is amazing what contortions the GOP will go to show 'look how close we came in so many races, so this is good news… that we lost across the state and gave up control of the VA assembly"

https://x.com/DRexrode/status/1722302412944236838?s=20

Am glad Bumpkinmania is ovah

Thousand wrote:

kosmo wrote:
a bunch of Moms for Liberty candidates lost in school board elections..

Awesome

Big fan of that guy's instagram page…

Yada wrote:

Thousand wrote:

kosmo wrote:
a bunch of Moms for Liberty candidates lost in school board elections..

Awesome

Big fan of that guy's instagram page…

sorry, who's?

So do we think Spanberger may be the next person to inhabit the governor’s mansion?

I do not think. I act.

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