Virginia HoD Redraw Thread - SCOTUS will not stop map drawing

[Virginiá]

56 Clinton seats. I wonder what the Northam/Kaine numbers are:

https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1088144677092511744

[Doimper]

I feel old to have lived through Virginia’s transition from ancestral Democrat to Republican dominance to, finally, moderate-to-liberal metropolitan Democrat.

Virginia was the first southern state to make this change. May Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas he close behind. (I can’t think of any other comparable southern state.)

Might happen in South Carolina long-term as well.

That would surprise me as South Carolina lacks the very large city / tech hubs you need to trend D with a Trumpish GOP. It's still too rural, too many retirees, small-city conservative, Evangelical.

South Carolina is the blue heart of Southern Democratic power in a timeline where Charleston remained the dominant Southern city.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I feel old to have lived through Virginia’s transition from ancestral Democrat to Republican dominance to, finally, moderate-to-liberal metropolitan Democrat.

Virginia was the first southern state to make this change. May Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas he close behind. (I can’t think of any other comparable southern state.)

I was there and following the news when Jim Gilmore rode his signature promise to cut repeal the car tax all the way to the Governor's Mansion in 1997.  

He was only partially successful.  So in effect, he cut rather than repealed the car tax.  Quite substantially too even if he failed to honor his promise (though it wasn't for lack of trying).   

A notable moment for me was the 2001 election where everyone was excited that Mark Warner had won the governorship after a long drought for Dems, but he only won narrowly and meanwhile the Democrats got slaughtered in the HoDs as the Republican transition took root with new maps.

What the Republicans had the Gubernatorial Mansion for 8 years, the 12 years before that was Democrats

[henster]

Dems are going to consolidate power very quickly to set them up for dominating the state for decades. We'll finally get early voting, same day registration, AVR, felon restoration which would bring out even more base voters to the polls. Plus gerrymandering the General Assembly and moving elections to Presidential years.

[Doimper]

Dems are going to consolidate power very quickly to set them up for dominating the state for decades. We'll finally get early voting, same day registration, AVR, felon restoration which would bring out even more base voters to the polls. Plus gerrymandering the General Assembly and moving elections to Presidential years.

Didn't McAuliffe individually restore the voting rights of all felons?

[Gass3268]

Dems are going to consolidate power very quickly to set them up for dominating the state for decades. We'll finally get early voting, same day registration, AVR, felon restoration which would bring out even more base voters to the polls. Plus gerrymandering the General Assembly and moving elections to Presidential years.

Along with voter ID repeal and hopefully removing the ban on governor's running for reelection.

Didn't McAuliffe individually restore the voting rights of all felons?

The idea would be to have a process that would do it automatically.

[Virginiá]

Thorough critique of the sham Virginia GOP's redistricting reform proposal:

https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1090047934828208128

tl;dr: It's actually worse than the current way lines are drawn