"Yes" wins in Virginia --

I share the sentiments of people who felt like they had to vote "yes" and then take a long shower.

It's terrible for democracy to have so few competitive districts in the House but it would be more terrible to have the GOP hang onto the House. And it may be that some of these districts that are gerrymandered turn out to be competitive by accident. At least a couple of Texas's five "new" GOP districts are shaping up to be close races.

As usual, anti-democratic stuff started with Trump.

I wish there were some objective measure that the partisan distribution of voters in district in a multi-district state can't exceed some threshold. I've said it many times before, the Supreme Court had the chance to put the brakes on this in Rucho v. Common Cause in 2019 but passed on it.

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"It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller's and Noem's dirty lies."

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feel better about all this. It's undoubtedly "yucky," but (comically) not illegal.

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However, after moving from Northern Virginia to Central Virginia, I had serious doubts this was gong to pass.

Seeing comments from these rural folks on various social media (FB Groups I joined to stay up on local zoning, festivals, etc.), makes me really sad for this country and the utter lack of knowledge about our Government.

I know general Civics knowledge is horrible but I honestly did not think it was this bad. I would say 50% of the people posting don't really know the difference between the US Congress and the VA House of Delegates.

I also think GOV Spanberger is one of the most courageous politicians in years. Virginia Governors can't run for reelection so she is going hard and doing great things. However, this vote will probably doom her national prospects. Aside from the pure misogyny of this country, Thiel and other special interests spent millions on AI ads demonizing her, lying about taxes that were never passed, etc.

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behind Virginia governors not being able to run for reelection?

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but Virginia is the only state where the limit is one single term. They can (and often do) serve nonconsecutive terms.

Upon doing some digging the "why" goes back to colonial times and the idea of keeping the power more broadly with "the people" via state legislature rather than consolidated with the state's chief executive.

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Is there a difference in Virginia that might cause them to strike it down?

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I think sophisticated voters knew they needed to counteract the Texas bullshit with this stop gap measure. Hopefully they can pass some meaningful anti-gerrymandering measures after this.

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with disinformation. Thankfully, Obama and a handful of other high profile figures recorded messages that they were strongly in support of this measure, and pointed to the temporary nature of the initiative in these extraordinary times.

Congratulations to the entire Say Yes team for making this happen.

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Most of these urged me to "Protect Minority Representation," complete with pictures of concerned looking Black and Latin folks, plus out-of-context quotes from Obama. The tv ads were more honest, at least, what with the scare-mongering about illegal immigrants, but someone sure wanted me and my neighbors to think voting No was my duty as a progressive.

FWIW, I voted Yes with a clear conscience, no shower needed.

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As a long ago co-worker of mine who had a cornpone saying for everything once said to me, "if you try to pull the wool over people's eyes too hard, they can see through the little holes."

I saw interviews this morning with some black voters who were downright insulted by the implication.

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the Polo Grounds

Your USSC point is an important one that has made me

As a 35 year resident of Virginia, I could not be happier.

What's the origin or reasoning

36 states have term limits for governorships,

I wonder how fast this gets to SC

The SC let the California Prop 50 vote stand

designed to expire in 2030

Even more than CA Yes on 50, this election was rife

I was getting "Vote No" mail pretty much every day

Yes won overwhelmingly in minority districts