Message from @Rhodesiaboo

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2018-01-24 14:45:42 UTC  

still better than Northam though

2018-01-24 14:45:56 UTC  

Gillespie distanced himself from Trump, and blamed Trump when he lost

2018-01-24 14:46:03 UTC  

he campaigned with George W. Bush

2018-01-24 14:46:06 UTC  

Of course. Northern Virginia has way too much power over The whole state.

2018-01-24 14:46:12 UTC  

yep

2018-01-24 14:46:21 UTC  

it's closer to safe blue than purple at this point

2018-01-24 14:46:31 UTC  

If Virginia and West Virginia reunited, the state would be more red

2018-01-24 14:46:40 UTC  

haha, it definitely would

2018-01-24 14:46:47 UTC  

it would be more competitive

2018-01-24 14:46:52 UTC  

I think it would have gone red in 2016

2018-01-24 14:47:33 UTC  

West Virginia only elected Democrats because this was during the time that the Democrats pretended they cared about the little man and Were in support of Coak

2018-01-24 14:47:36 UTC  

Coal

2018-01-24 14:47:40 UTC  

indeed

2018-01-24 14:47:56 UTC  

much of the south elected Democrats to local office until relatively recently

2018-01-24 14:48:10 UTC  

it was a remnant of the time when it was known as the "Solid South"

2018-01-24 14:48:26 UTC  

Ohio was for many years purple. But I think Ted Strickland changed that.

2018-01-24 14:48:49 UTC  

that's the election between the Republican (Theodore Roosevelt) vs his Democratic opponent, Alton Parker

2018-01-24 14:49:01 UTC  

it was a landslide in terms of popular vote

2018-01-24 14:49:18 UTC  

but the south was still solidly Democratic, except for Missouri, which went over to the GOP

2018-01-24 14:49:35 UTC  

Ohio always goes red or blue

2018-01-24 14:49:41 UTC  

But I think it will go Red

2018-01-24 14:50:09 UTC  

Ohio is the opposite of Virginia in that it's a purple state trending safe red

2018-01-24 14:50:27 UTC  

I think that had to do with Ted Strickland

2018-01-24 14:50:34 UTC  

He was a really shitty governor

2018-01-24 14:50:49 UTC  

in what ways was he shitty

2018-01-24 14:51:13 UTC  

He bankrupted the state, and spent the rainy day fund until it was just 68 cents

2018-01-24 14:51:19 UTC  

wow

2018-01-24 14:51:57 UTC  

He tried running for senator in the 2016 election, but his advertisement campaign was really shitty compared to Portman’s

2018-01-24 14:52:03 UTC  

So he lost

2018-01-24 14:53:42 UTC  

58.0% to 37.2%

2018-01-24 14:53:49 UTC  

yeah, what a pathetic showing

2018-01-24 14:54:11 UTC  

the good news is that if the GOP does it right, a lot of races this November should look like that

2018-01-24 14:54:56 UTC  

The asshole thought that “since muh trump is against abortion, so is Portman”. That’s what his advertisement campaign was. Portman’s in the other hand was that since Strickland bankrupted the State, why would we make him our senator?

2018-01-24 14:55:25 UTC  

if only 51.1% of people who voted for Trump voted for Moore, he would have won

2018-01-24 14:55:55 UTC  

But the Dems scared the voters away with the pedo allegations.

2018-01-24 14:56:34 UTC  

Either ways, I don’t think Jones will make it to the next election