The Virginia win is huge. It prevent republicans from being able to gerrymander the state with the census results. So don't underrate how big this victory is for the next decade.
The Kentucky win is basically meaningless for democrats nationally. Republicans won 5/6 races in Kentucky comfortably. Seems the governor who lost just really sucked, and he lost by a very thin margin. I don't think this is a sign that evil turtle is going to struggle next year.
Damn it
Him and Ted Cruz are fucking vile, way worse than Trump
Really depressing knowing we'll never get rid of them :(
Meh I keep seeing the news point to polls showing how unpopular he is, but they ignore that there is a big difference between a state election and a federal election. A democratic governor is going to operate under rather different politics than a democratic senator.
Governor and senator are both state-wide votes, not sure why one is so different from the other... Of course, who's running matters, but Mitch is worse than dog shit, so if a decent Dem can beat an awful Repub for governor, not sure why the same can't happen for senator. Or does Kentucky just intentionally send us their worst as a giant middle finger to the rest of the country?
I'm not talking about how they run. I'm talking about how they work while in office. A governor is just in the state. While the senator has to go work with the "coastal elites" that they HATE. I can't understand how much people around here hate "coastal elites".
Or how they think NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, etc... aren't on "the coast" because it'd ruin their narrative
But yeah, sounds like what I was asking then. Intentionally sending a fuck wad to the Senate as an F-U to the rest of the country. And yet it's the liberals who are mean to them, according to them. For example, I don't recall democrats ever passing a tax bill that was explicitly written to fuck over red states, like the Republicans did w/ the 2017 tax law, outright saying they were targeting the state and local taxes deduction b/c it would mainly "hurt blue states."