Not the party line but when I was a young ensign with boundless energy, I'd drive long distance at night when I went on leave. You can drive through all those parking lots at normal speed during the wee hours and make good time.
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They should do a remake of Groundhog Day and call it Infrastructure Week
Terry McAuliffe’s blunder spotlighted the issue of school boards, moving education up to the 2nd most important issue (behind the economy). Regardless of who wins the VA governor’s race, the Republicans now have a plan to retake the suburbs.
Education blunder igniting suburban parents driving McAuliffe panic in Virginia
In a Virginia gubernatorial debate on Sept. 29 with Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin, Democratic nominee and former governor Terry McAuliffe declared: “I don’t think parents should be telling sch…
Meanwhile, the Democrats in Congress are so fractured that they are having extreme difficulty passing an infrastructure bill - much like 4 years ago when the Republicans could not do anything over the Affordable Care Act despite controlling the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
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The Buffalo thing was amazing to watch. It is astounding to me how many people think “socialism” is sidewalks and fire departments.Looks the McAuliffe’s gaffe proved fatal as Youngkin was able to make inroads into the suburbs while keeping the rural vote at supercharged levels. Likewise, NJ was almost evenly split after President Biden won there by 16 points last year. The county I live in just switched from a liberal school board to a conservative school board following a very heated local election. The Republicans now have a plan for 2022, will be interesting to see how the Democrats plan to counter.
There were 3 other remarkable elections as well on Tuesday.
In The town of Tito Falls, NJ, a 97 year old WW2 vet won re-election as mayor.
Also in NJ, the most powerful member of the NJ state senate appears to have lost re-election to a person who had little more than a Facebook page.
Finally, the mayor of Buffalo, who lost in the Democratic primary to a more progressive candidate, won re-election as a write-in candidate.
Opinion | A socialist ran for mayor — the results so far aren’t exactly encouraging
Buffalo's election results aren't final yet, but India Walton's bid to become a socialist mayor in New York is looking grim.
But, but, AOC just wanted to tax the rich!!
Be patient, the repubs will squander their gains from this election just as quickly as the dems did with theirs from 2020. Both of them seem to try to push people to vote for the other party.
I saw an interesting article a few weeks ago with the punchline of "we're essentially arguing over details and things that really aren't that big of a deal to many people. Things that are important to a small number of people become big issues in lieu of actual big issues." This essentially means that swings like this will continue to happen as there's not an overarching big problem (think great depression and FDR) to really drive long term voting.
BTDT, at exactly the same time of day (night). It's almost surreal to be stuck in a huge traffic jam at that time of night. Like going through the airport in Qatar at 2:00 AM. Why is this place busy?
Funny how none of them mentioned Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor-elect.
I don’t think so. The Dems shifted straight from neutral to fifth gear as soon as they had control over both houses and therefore never got the car headed down the road. The Republicans gained no actual federal legislative power here; as the Veep said herself, this portends the 2022 and 2024 elections.
That's a fair statement.