The Virginia ballot measure to amend the state constitution to override the independent state redistricting commission and nuke four of the five Republican-held congressional districts is projected to pass on Tuesday but not by an overwhelming margin one might have expected given the patterns of Dem overperformance in special/off-year elections, probably about 52 to 48 percent.
According to the New York Times the turnout in Fairfax County, the state’s most populous, dropped off by as much as 25 percent versus last year’s commanding gubernatorial election win for Abigail Spanberger. Still, a win is a win – provided there’s also a win at the state Supreme Court, which allowed the vote to proceed while the ruling is still pending – and as such a righteous fuck you to convicted felon President Trump’s now clearly ineffective attempt to gerrymander away a loss of the House GOP majority. From the perspective of last June, when the fat fuck first commanded Texas Republicans to steal five seats for him – he literally told that Joe Kernen dickbag on one of his rambling calls into CNBC that, since he “got the highest vote in the history of Texas” he’s “entitled to five more seats” – and from a national political media that maybe wasn’t wrong to expect Democrats to just take getting pissed on lying down, yeah. It really could have been determinative.