Northam wins

Hello ATS,

I know some on this site won't like this news but Ralph Northam wins the race for Virginia's new governor. Northam wins with 51.7% of the vote to Gillespie's 47.5%.

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans? Is this a sign of things to come for the GOP?

Posting from a cellphone so I'm short of the VC usual bells and whistles.

www.cnn.com...

originally posted by: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans?

Nothing probably.

Virginia is loaded with regular Democrat government workers.

Majority wins.

a reply to: lostbook

Northampton or Northam?

N/M..
OP has corrected.

a reply to: lostbook

It's just as surprising as California going democrat.

originally posted by: xuenchen

originally posted by: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans?

Nothing probably.

Virginia is loaded with regular Democrat government workers.

Majority wins.

Maybe but we shall see. I think the Democrats took New Jersey also.

Northern Virginia is about as blue as it gets, so no surprise there. What is a surprise is how close the vote was.

So I guess Facebook and Pokemon were northam supporters?

a reply to: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans? Is this a sign of things to come for the GOP?

I don't think the GOP is as infatuated with Trump as they once were. A Trump endorsement might work against the Republicans as it did in Virginia.

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: lostbook

Northampton or Northam?

N/M..
OP has corrected.

Ha-ha! Yeah, I posted before I realized what auto-correct had done to change Northam to Northampton. I tried fix it before anyone noticed. Oh, well....

a reply to: lostbook

I mean the state has been going blue for some time so it's not exactly news. Bigger news is that Dem's failed to win with a larger margin imo.

originally posted by: xuenchen

originally posted by: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans?

Nothing probably.

Virginia is loaded with regular Democrat government workers.

Majority wins.

Majority wins...for a change...

I guess the left can celebrate!

Wonder what statue they're going to tear down?

originally posted by: AboveBoard

originally posted by: xuenchen

originally posted by: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans?

Nothing probably.

Virginia is loaded with regular Democrat government workers.

Majority wins.

Majority wins...for a change...

A win for the dnc!

Now if we can just be sure they didn't rig the primary...

originally posted by: loam
Northern Virginia is about as blue as it gets, so no surprise there. What is a surprise is how close the vote was.

Yes, it was close and it's been that way the whole time. I think Gillespie was even ahead at one point.

a reply to: lostbook

No prob..
I actually googled it and it actually gave results for Ralph Northampton LT. Gov of Virginia.

So I was confused for a second.

originally posted by: Grambler
So I guess Facebook and Pokemon were northam supporters?

Yep. Pichachu voted for Northam.

originally posted by: Grambler

originally posted by: AboveBoard

originally posted by: xuenchen

originally posted by: lostbook

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans?

Nothing probably.

Virginia is loaded with regular Democrat government workers.

Majority wins.

Majority wins...for a change...

A win for the dnc!

Now if we can just be sure they didn't rig the primary...

Yeah, the presidential election gets more and more like a storyline from General Hospital or Young and the Restless everyday.

originally posted by: lostbook
Hello ATS,

I know some on this site won't like this news but Ralph Northam wins the race for Virginia's new governor. Northam wins with 51.7% of the vote to Gillespie's 47.5%.

What does this mean for the coming years for Trump's Republicans? Is this a sign of things to come for the GOP?

Posting from a cellphone so I'm short of the VC usual bells and whistles.

www.cnn.com...

Considering Northam was originally up by double digits and only squeaked out a win I wouldn't pop the champagne corks just yet. The states the elections are in were won by Democrats and the states in question went to Clinton in the general.

I was more interested in the percentage difference, not the outcome per say. Virginia went blue in 2016 so this is not a surprise.

Clinton took VA by 5 points, Northam took it by 3 (last I checked). That's more interesting to me.

Phil Murhpy also won in New Jersey. Transgender Democrat Danica Roem defeated 26 year incumbent Bob Marshall to join the Virginia legislature.