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In reply to the discussion: I am so angry about Virginia [View all]aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)4. Hopefully Virginia '21 was a one and done for GQP similar to Alabama for Dems and Doug Jones in '18
I can NOT believe Virginian's will be OK with what is going to happen to them in the next 4 years. 2025 can't come too soon for them I'm sure.
Too bad Jones lives in Alabama and not a Blue or even Swing state. He was a great Senator.
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McAuliffe got more votes than any other Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia's history
EleanorR
Jan 2022
#2
Uneducated white women did a 20% switch, he didn't know that months before the election and
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#22
Hopefully Virginia '21 was a one and done for GQP similar to Alabama for Dems and Doug Jones in '18
aeromanKC
Jan 2022
#4
He was a weak candidate who ran a poor ground/web game. I saw and said that in the summer.
Tommymac
Jan 2022
#10
I think the average person spends like 3-5 seconds looking at one piece of unsolicited mail.
Tommymac
Jan 2022
#11
High R turnout plus they flipped Indies bigtime. Flipping Indies was a MAJOR factor.
LENNY0229
Jan 2022
#29
There was tons of textbanking in VA because I did it. It was being done in a big targeted way.
LENNY0229
Jan 2022
#19
Welcome to DU. Thanks for writing. Have you found the Virginia group yet?
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2022
#20
"a bit of a more robust and earlier groundgame" This is what I read in VA was the messaging he was
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#23
He could have started earlier, but did people not know there was an election?
LENNY0229
Jan 2022
#24
Not in plain site, the informed think everyone else is as informed as they are. The avg voter isn't
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#31
In the hotly-contested 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election, according to the AP-NORC VoteCast
Celerity
Jan 2022
#27