@Nuke How?

Winning areas where Trump and Gillespie won but with huge margins

Stewart will probably do worse than both everywhere

>Stewart will probably do worse than both everywhere

nah, he'll do better than Gillespie in certain areas for sure

Moronic prediction

@Nuke Yellowhammer is a US Election Atlas user, so what do you expect

Moronic predictions, obviously.

He has been trailing by 20+ in multiple polls

The issue is as was Gillespie in 2014

Virginia is a blue state now. If we ever want to win, we need to running people like Barbara Comstock and Jill Vogel statewide

It will never vote for a Corey Stewart

>Barbara Comstock

lol

I kept telling them it’s a blue state

She would be a hell of a lot stronger than Stewart lol

For god’s sake they elected Terry McAuliffe, One of Hillary’s most trusted allies, as their governor.

VA will be as blue as NJ is now in 10 years

It was always blue, since 2008

They elected one of Hillary’s closet allies as their governor

I think 2017 was the point of no return

>point of no return

Defeatist rhetoric

I wouldn't say 2017 was the point of no return. But I do think that it's not only important for Republican candidates to hold onto their influence in rural areas of the state, but also appeal to those in blue areas outside of NoVA that can easily be flipped, such as around Richmond and Hampton Roads. Culturally, it's definitely not easy to do, but there definitely needs to be some appeal to these folks in heavily populated areas, and more work needs to be put in to get their votes. It shouldn't be ignored and shrugged off as unwinnable like it is in places like Fairfax County.

I do hope to see Jill Vogel run again in a statewide race.

Gut the public sector and you'll have a temporary boost in Democratic turnout as a knee jerk response from retrenched public sector workers but a permanent increase in your voter base over the long term.

In Virginia, that is.

Public workers are only part of the problem in NOVA

It’s just become a very liberal place very quickly

Comstock won't win.

Trump and Romney had basically the same results in Virginia. For a Republican to win, he must get both the Trump and Romney republicans.

It's possible, but quite hard.

Trump got better turnout in the western/rural parts than Romney though

while Romney won a greater percentage of NoVa voters

That's what I'm saying.

They balanced eachother out. Trump lost by basically the same margin as Romney.

yep

I recall doing the math a while back though

IIRC even if you gave all those Romney NoVa voters to Trump, he still would have come short

@[Lex] And of course, Trump implemented a federal hiring freeze that probably displeased many liberals in Virginia in 2017.

Democrat turnout in 2017 was comparable to 2016.

Well, many of those NoVa Romney voters voted for Clinton, so you would subtract from her total.

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