The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, aka “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” says that “while the result may not be the type of sweeping affirmation that Democrats got in last year’s elections, it would still be a surprise” if next week’s referendum on the redistricting ballot measure set to nuke four out of the five currently GOP-held US House seats ends up failing given the turnout patterns so far.
The measure still has to get past the state Supreme Court after the vote but that would be pretty goddamned lame of them to simply block something that had already been polled. “We could understand if judges on the court are privately hoping the ballot measure fails, if only so that this case is rendered moot,” Team Sabato writes and yes, that’s how judges should actually feel.