Liberal progressives trying to sweep election in Virginia...

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the giant elephant in the room continues to be swept under the rug and papered over.

Cricket fields.

it cannot be denied that #45 and his minions have set us markedly closer to just such a kind of fascism as depicted in the video. whistle past that graveyard all you want but that won't change the mindset of scapegoating and "hatred for the other" which has been unleashed.

Gillespie is a loser!
Nazis are losers!

The Govenor of Missouri and his campaign ad.He won the election.The ad was in poor taste considering all the people getting murdered by crazed shooters.He has another one where he's shooting at stuff with a machine gun and blowing it up like in an action movie.
https://youtu.be/0-VfFi6Z14Q

Very good night for the Democrats in Virginia. I'm a fan of Northam's social policies even if he's rather left-wing economically for my tastes.

I thought the best story was a horrid bigot being thrown out after being defeated by a trans woman. From the Washington Post:

Very pleased with this result in Virginia. Hopefully, this will just be the start of the GOP getting a kicking from the electorate while Trump is in the White House.

The Virginia result was biggest potential future predictor/evidence of an anti Trump backlash. It was not that the Democrat won but that he won by 9 percent when the polls said 3. This is a reversal of recent trends. Murphy's win in New Jersey was not a surprise as the exiting Chris Christie approval rating is at 15 percent or so. Bill Murphy who is going to replace him as about as anti Trumpism as possible. Wall Street banker who said he is going to raise taxes and make New Jersey a sanctuary state.

Here in New York a proposal for a constitutional convention went down. Again no surprise as in a very blue state Public employee unions ran an expensive campaign against it. The constitutional convention had the potential to be a Bannonism tear it all down type event and voters stomped on it 83 to 17 percent.

The Republican who put out the MS-13 mailer pictured above lost. But a whole bunch of Republican officials in that county has been convicted or indicted for corruption which is a drag on any candidate of that party. Also the two local school board candidates in New Jersey targeted by the explicit anti Indian-American, anti Chinese-American ad pictured above won.

The idea that these results portend an anti-Trumpism backlash leading to Democrats taking control of the House starting in 2019 is spurious as they were local, not Federal government elections with important local factors at play. But when you have had bad news after more bad news for 7 years including special elections this year you take what you can get.

Trump is butthurt Gillespie didn't
embrace him.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reute ... SKBN1D838G

I sense there will be a sharp anti-Trump backslash in the 2018 Congressional elections.

Not to get off subject of Virginia too much, but the largely Republican run city council of Spokane Valley has been all replaced last night by voters. They got themselves elected on a low taxes campaign, but ended up getting the city fined by the state for trying to make the small city a gun rights zone with zero restrictions, and were more concerned about political ideology than with fixing pot holes in the street. Good riddance, I say, even though I know and personally like one of these voted out councilmen.

he's meaner than he needs to be.