cville deac
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What we learned from the Virginia primary
Two stories: (1) high turnout for the Dems; (2) establishment Republican expected to win by 20 pts won a surprisingly narrow race against an ardent Trump supporter who referred to his opponent as a "cuckservative."
Any insight into the races from our VA posters?
Certainly a much higher Dem turnout than Pub turnout. Low Pub turnout I believe explains why Trump clone Corey Stewart almost won the Pub nomination - his followers are fewer but more fanatic.
Another take is, though VA is not traditionally a populist state, populism did surprisingly well in a few races, though not for Periello running for governor. First, Stewart came withing a whisker of being the Pub nominee for governor - extremely unexpected result - the Dem race was supposed to be nip and tuck and totally wasn't. Second, locally here in central VA, we had a couple of not really close, but not really blowout races that should have been extreme blowouts. My local delegate is David Toscano, who is well respected locally and in Richmond, and who is often unopposed or only has nominal opposition in both the primary and general. But he only won 2/3 of the vote against a totally unknown newcomer from the left wing of the party. And we also had a local commonwealth attorney race that pitted a liberal and current deputy CA against an antifa type zealot who currently has A&B charges pending against him and who has never done criminal law. The deputy CA won, but like Toscano, only with like 2/3 of the vote. I'm thinking that the current toxic local political climate with confederate statues, white nationalists, the Klan and antifas dominating local news maybe made those 2 races closer than they should have been on paper.