Are the times a-changing in the blue states in the wake of the wuflu? More specifically in the heavy-handedness of the democrats’ elected officials across the country? It probably depends on how blue the state is. During today’s members’ meeting, we discussed a local election in the recently blued Commonwealth of Virginia where the republicans swept the democrats out of office this week. A few caveats about Staunton, Virginia up front; it is not in one of the democrats’ strongholds in the state. It was essentially a blue island in a red sea. In fact, I did not know that the democrats had control of the local government there, or that it had been voting democrat in past presidential elections. Staunton, by the way, is the home of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, which I think is the oldest of the extant presidential libraries in the country. So I guess it makes sense that it is a democrat stronghold (or was?). What was most interesting to me, was that the voter turnout for this week’s election was 10,000 votes higher than the turnout for the previous local election. Clearly a lot more people came out to vote this year, cooties and all. They were not pleased with their incumbents. I don’t know at this point if they were specifically unhappy with their local government, or unhappy with our democrat governor and his party in general.
In my little town of Purcellville, which become part of the rapidly expanding democrat wave oozing out of Washington a few years ago, we are also having local elections June 4th. They are technically “non-partisan” elections, but there are two factions; an incumbent faction and a challenger faction. Ordinarily I would expect the incumbent to be rubber-stamped for re-election, but I would not be surprised if he were upset in a general climate of anti-incumbency. I will let you know what happens.
One last thing; one of the YouTube channels that I subscribe to is Blue Collar logic. Dave Morrison, who resides in California not far away from Bill, did a video today giving his 2 cents on the possibility of California going red in 2020. My own opinion is that the longer the state has been under the yoke of the democrats, the more entrenched their power will be. I can’t see California sending its electoral votes to Donal Trump in 2020. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be a little redshift in some of the house races and other local contests. Here is the Blue Collar Logic video for your viewing pleasure. https://youtu.be/ON-wPNs-p4A
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Interesting times. I am a California native that left for Texas in 1977 and never looked back. Pete Wilson was governor I think, but the rest of the state was slowly sliding left.When I was assigned to Abilene, Texas after law school, I thought that I had arrived in Heaven. Flat, miserably hot for 9 months and ice storms win the winter, but no income tax, low sales tax, regulations, what regulations and fantastic people. I am still here and it is still miserably hot. If I want mountains, I will move to Montana. Just stop sending Californians out of state to screw up the rest of us.