Three Things About Virginia

Politics is fluid. Fight everywhere. Always.

by Rod D. Martin
November 4, 2021

First, Virginia was a "lost" state: red-turned-blue and written off by all the "smart people". It was a no-hoper...where we just won back the top three statewide offices and the House of Delegates.

Six months ago, or six weeks ago, nearly everyone would have told you that was impossible. But politics is fluid: what you think is "lost forever" never is. Colorado was "impossibly" Republican not long ago and is now "impossibly" Democrat. Virginia was "impossibly" Democrat when I was a kid, went 180 degrees the other way to rock-solid Republican, was "lost forever" under Obama, and now just gave the Socialists a nervous breakdown.

Ditto Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016, a "blue wall" now turned "swing states". Ditto Georgia and North Carolina. Ditto California some day.

Politics is fluid. Fight everywhere, always.

Second, Republicans won in Virginia by relentlessly telling the truth about Socialist policies and how they hurt real, everyday people. S…