It was too Big to Rig. As such, it turned into not only a “land-slide”, but a mandate that outpaces even what Ronald Reagan achieved.
Trump is poised to be the 47th President of the United States!
You’d think we’d be happy and just simply celebrate the stupendous Win!
You’d be right. But then again…
Look at the map of the USA:
Virginia is embarrassingly Blue. The question is “Why Exactly”?
Virginia has oversized Government Agency employment that dominates major population areas. If these agencies are broken up and shipped out, (as Trump has planned) that would help.
Another thing that would help is a reboot at the State Party Leadership level.
How the Virginia Republican Party is party is managed on a state level has got to change, and change now. What they’ve been doing since Dave Bratt defeated Cantor simply hasn’t been and isn’t working.
Yes, of course we have a Republican Governor. I also realize that is because Terry McAuliffe slipped up and Youngkin capitalized it after parents got the point that their kids weren’t theirs to educate as the dem’s (falsely and incorrectly) asserted.
It’s way past time to improve messaging and and stop leaving seats in Northern Virginia and Tidewater unchallenged. It’s way past time for Republican Party reform in Virginia. Reform that reflects representative Republican governance principles instead of central authority and top-down control. One way to do that is to re-shape party leadership into only congressional district chairs + fully elected SCC seats. All other groups should be ex-officio only. Additionally, elected officials on the state level have no business being involved in state party leadership. None. They already have a public service job.
However, Goochland has an incursion problem on the far east end.
Avery Point – district 403 is Blue.
Fixing State level leadership won’t solve this. We – Goochland Republicans- have to do this.
The voters in precinct 403, the blue one, either live in apartments, or Avery Point. It would seem as though many of them are from bluer places and brought that with them.
Yes, we do live in apartments and in a constant state of educational endeavor. We are very aware that we also live in what is known as a RED County. We fought hard to overcome that and will continue to do so because we READ and RESEARCH and KNOW what it means to have an uneducated populace… We get the likes of Donald Trump and the Cabinet of Crooks that he wants to put in place.