Category: Elections
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Spanberger’s Low-Energy Launch
by Shaun Kenney Long rumored and much anticipated, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) announced her intention to run for Virginia governor in 2025 just weeks after Republicans led by Governor Glenn Youngkin fell short of re-capturing leadership of the General Assembly. Spanberger’s announcement — being panned as “low energy” by most observers — came just days…
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An After-Action Review of the ’23 Election
by Scott Lingamfelter Years ago, when I was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, we would conduct force-on-force training at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. It’s a vast complex in a high desert environment where training was quite realistic. We would conduct maneuvers against what was termed “the world-class OPFOR” or opposition forces, who mimicked…
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Anyone Know Where Sen. Ghazala Hashmi Lives?
by Kerry Dougherty mmm. Looks like things just got interesting — instead of merely horrifying — in last Tuesday’s election. If Luke Rosiak of The Daily Wire is correct, one Democrat member of the Virginia State Senate may be fighting to stay out of jail rather than taking her seat in the Capitol come January.…
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A Red Wave in Roanoke County
by Scott Dreyer In contrast to some big Democrat wins in the eastern part of the state giving them control of both houses of the General Assembly, the Roanoke and NRV experienced a regional red wave in the November 7 elections. Of particular significance, the GOP won both of the most competitive, high-stakes races in…
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It Wasn’t About Youngkin
by Joe Fitzgerald Deep in the hills of Southwest Virginia is a state Senate district where nobody works because the coal industry is increasingly mechanized. The district has all or part of eight counties. In Northern Virginia is a county where nobody works because they’re all employed by the federal government. The county includes all…
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In Loudoun, Some Good News for Republicans
by Jeanine Martin I feel sorry for Governor Yougkin. This has to be one of the worst nights of his life. After doing 100 campaign events, he lost the state Senate and House of Delegates. Youngkin may need to rethink his future in politics. Although this election wasn’t about him. It was about abortion, always…
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Virginia Election Reflections
by Kerry Dougherty So, boys and girls, what did we learn Tuesday night? I’ll go first. First, we learned never to underestimate the Democrats’ devotion to abortion. To them, it’s a sacrament. Something not to be touched. Every woman, they believe, has the right (I’d say God-given, but it seems blasphemous) to abort her baby…
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Additional Electoral Jolts
by Dick Hall-Sizemore It has long been evident that Henrico County has been changing, both demographically and politically. The results of this week’s elections were the culmination of that long-term trend. The county has a history of continuity in its Board of Supervisors membership with members serving for many years. This year, two long-serving board…
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A Few Thousand Votes Would Have Made a Big Difference
by Shaun Kenney Yeah — I’m a bit bitter over this one. Virginia Republicans did everything we were asked, despite our intuition. We narrowed the talking points, stayed in our lanes, muffled internal criticisms, and allowed the effort to be centralized. Consultants made their money as they do every election and the Democrats outspent us…
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Song Sung Blue
by James A. Bacon Not every General Assembly race has been decided, according to the data displayed by the Virginia Public Access Project, but enough votes are in to conclude that the Democrats won the election. They retained their control of the state Senate and won a narrow majority in the House. Some preliminary observations:…
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Election Day: VOTE
by Kerry Dougherty No matter how busy you are, no matter what’s going on, don’t sit this one out. VOTE. Especially if you love Virginia and don’t want our commonwealth to go backwards, turning into an East-coast version of tax-mad, crime-ridden, pronoun-obsessed California. Remember how good it felt the day after the 2021 election, when…
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Tomorrow’s Ballot Question: Will Virginia Become Illinois?
by Derrick Max It was reported last week that billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker had made substantial campaign contributions totaling $250,000 to four liberal Democrats running for Virginia State Senate and the Democratic Party of Virginia. These donations, made through Governor Pritzker’s “Think Big America” organization, are the clearest sign yet that the left wants to…
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That’s One Way to Cut Down on Health Care Costs
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Just as the Democrats and Republicans get rid of their embarrassments in the Virginia Senate (Joe Morrissey and Amanda Chase, respectively), it appears the Republicans will be electing another one for the House. Following up on a report by The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Dwayne Yancey reports today in Cardinal News that…
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Freedom, Consistency, and Tuesday’s Election
by Shaun Kenney One of the great things about being a conservative is that we are inherently an anti-ideology. As the late William F. Buckley Jr. once put it, the great task of the modern conservative movement is to stand athwart history yelling STOP! Yet in a wider sense, it is far easier for conservatives…
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Democrats, Judges, and Higher Taxes
from Liberty Unyielding For generations, Washington State had no state income tax, because of anti-income tax provisions in its state constitution. But the Washington state supreme court recently upheld a classic example of an income tax — a state tax on income from capital gains — by making the absurd argument that a capital gains tax…