{"id":30220,"date":"2017-11-08T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30220"},"modified":"2017-11-08T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:23:27","slug":"sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweep!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long, long time since the last time Democrats had anything major to celebrate on election day.  In NJ, the Reich that Pignocchio built is history. and in Virginia, Democrats won all the major offices.  Also, they might still flip control op the House of Delegate in spite of the Republican Gerrymandering that the court is about to redistrict, before 2018.<\/font><\/p>\n

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THE BIG IDEA: Tuesday was the best day for Democrats politically since Barack Obama won reelection in 2012<\/strong>. Remember, conservatives scored significant victories in the November 2014<\/a>, 2015<\/a> and 2016<\/a> elections. Democrats desperately needed some wins after they went all-in on a House special election in Georgia this spring and lost. Last night, they got them.<\/p>\n

Voters came out in droves. They braved the rain and the cold to send a message to President Trump. The results across the country represent nothing less than a stinging repudiation of Trump on the first anniversary of his election.<\/p>\n

— Democrat Ralph Northam was <\/strong>elected governor of Virginia<\/strong><\/a> Tuesday by an unexpectedly large margin of nine percentage points<\/strong>. He won more votes<\/a> than any previous candidate for Virginia governor.<\/p>\n

Republican Ed Gillespie could not escape Trump\u2019s unpopularity, despite his best efforts to thread the needle<\/strong>. Four in 10 Virginia voters yesterday approved of the job that the president is doing, according to preliminary exit polls. Gillespie received over 9 in 10 votes from Trump approvers, but among the larger group of Trump disapprovers, Northam had nearly as large an advantage: 87 percent.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s impact on the race was also clear from other questions in the exit polling<\/strong>: 34 percent of voters said expressing opposition to Trump was a reason for their vote, with almost all of this group favoring Northam, per our in-house pollster Scott Clement. Half as many (17 percent) sought to express support for the president, while 47 percent said Trump was not a factor in their choice.<\/p>\n

— Women made the difference<\/strong>. White women with college degrees \u2014 a group that split evenly in the 2013 Virginia governor\u2019s election \u2014 favored Northam by 16 points over Gillespie in preliminary exit polling, 58 percent to 42 percent. Northam\u2019s margin is more than twice as wide as the margin Hillary Clinton won those voters by last year, 50 percent to 44 percent.<\/p>\n

Married women voted for Northam by 10 points according to preliminary exit polls, 54 percent to 44 percent. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump eked out a one-point lead with this group, 48 percent to 47 percent<\/strong>. Married women consisted of 30 percent of Virginia voters this year, about the same share as in 2016 and 2014. (Check out our interactive exit poll graphic <\/a>here.)… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I was very pleased that a trans candidate put the pig that authored the infamous bathroom bill on the unemployment line.<\/font><\/p>\n