
Morning of reckoning: What Virginia is about to lose
Republicans got their 2020 voters out. Democrats didn’t. It’ll soon start to sink in to folks who couldn’t hold their noses and vote for Terry McAuliffe what we’re about to lose.

Republicans got their 2020 voters out. Democrats didn’t. It’ll soon start to sink in to folks who couldn’t hold their noses and vote for Terry McAuliffe what we’re about to lose.

Republicans have won a statewide election in Virginia for the first time in 12 years, with Glenn Youngkin leading a GOP sweep, a year after Joe Biden had won the Commonwealth by double-digits.

John F. Kennedy said that “to govern is to choose.” The Democrats running Washington have had a hard time choosing lately. It should come as no surprise, then, that they have not done too well at governing, either.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring today requested that State Sen. Amanda Chase provide his office with the alleged evidence of election “cheating” that she claims to have found and shared with a gubernatorial campaign.

The enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans in Virginia has been well-chronicled by pollsters. Wonder what early voting numbers might have to say about enthusiasm? A lot that’s not good for Democrats, is what.

A new VCU poll has 41 percent of likely voters supporting Democrat Terry McAuliffe and 38 percent supporting Republican Glenn Youngkin, a substantial tightening of the race since last month when McAuliffe led 43 percent to 34 percent among likely voters.

The 20th House District, as currently drawn, with two cities making up more than half the district, seems, on paper, to give Democrats their best fighting chance to steal a win in a House race in the Central Shenandoah Valley.

It’s hard for me to get too deep in the weeds on the issues in the local 2021 House races, with the Republicans running locally apparently not all that concerned about the threats to our democratic republic from Donald Trump.

Time has insulated us from the violence perpetrated by past regimes in their pursuit of power.

The government is your government. Representation in our republic based on democratic principles depends upon an active and informed citizenry making its views known.