Fuzzy Bear
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« on: November 08, 2017, 06:50:06 AM » |
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Gillespie ran as something he is not. Had he really been a Trump acolyte, he may well have won.
No one likes a phony. No one likes a poser. Gillespie is a career Establishment Republican with some appeal to independents and moderates. Had he run a more localized race and not tried to be something he was not, he wouldn't have been blown out (and he WAS blown out).
Northam isn't my idea of an exciting candidate, and I didn't think his switching on Sanctuary Cities was a smart move, as it made Northam look a bit phony. But Northam was who he was more than Gillespie was, at least in the mind of Virginia voters. And it appears that Virginia's Democrats actually harnessed some of the lightning in the bottle that was working in their favor. I see Virginia now as a Democratic state for 2020, not quite like Massachusetts, but much like Minnesota, and moreso than Michigan and Wisconsin at this point.
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