About Last Night: Youngkin Wins In Virginia, GOP Has Strong Night

Terry McAuliffe ran a terrible campaign. Any discussion of the results in Virginia needs to start there.

Photo by Glenn Youngkin from Virginia, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Virginia, Virginia…for those who want to discuss the election results in Virginia and elsewhere last night I will gladly do so…in song form!

Well here she is again on the phone
Just like me hates to be alone
We just like to sit at home, and rip on the President
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don’t really wanna live this life…

Let the hair pulling and screaming commence:

For months, the political establishment predicted that Virginia’s gubernatorial race was Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s to lose.

Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had won the state by nine points in 2017 and President Biden had trounced Donald Trump by 10 points last year. Those…