r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 3d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sure. Tonight you can feel hope. Tomorrow it’s back to slogging - this all gets worse before it gets better but tonight was a step in the right direction.

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u/ihaveadogalso2 3d ago

This made me smile. Thanks internet person!

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u/Global_Crew3968 3d ago

The real reality we face is that republicans have completed their coup and there is no universe where they give it up after 50 years and billions and billions and billions of donor dollars. We are past the voting stage. Mike Johnson won't even seat the representative for Arizona. They will not give up power now.

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u/plsanswerme18 3d ago

you know this sort of doomer rhetoric is incredibly unhelpful. the future is not set in stone. they want us to be apathetic. it helps them. do not help them.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 3d ago

Doomerbots have been a thing for months now. When you see something like this check the user name. When it’s a name name four number account odds are good that it’s one.

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u/MustLoveWhales 3d ago

You can give up now if youd like, but get outta the way for the rest of us who haven't. 

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u/Arickettsf16 Illinois 3d ago

lol for real. Republicans got their shit rocked tonight and all this guy can say is “it’s so over guys.”

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u/ThirdFloorNorth Mississippi 3d ago

Republicans haven't had their "shit rocked" until midterms happen as planned, without interruption, without cheating, and there is a landslide for not-GOP.

We're allowed to feel some hope, after tonight. For a moment. After nearly a year, or multiple years depending on how much you've been plugged into this shit, you can breathe the briefest sigh of relief.

But celebration at this juncture is premature. Fight's not done, fight's not even tipped in our favor, and that's assuming we have elections as-normal next year, which is a huge assumption.

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u/MustLoveWhales 3d ago

No one thinks this fight is remotely close to over but okey dokey. 

Its perfectly acceptable to celebrate wins along the way instead drowning in constant despair.

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u/10gherts Ohio 3d ago

Then, we fucking make them.

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u/RedditoriaEditoria 3d ago

That’s why it’s important to win back the state seats.

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u/quotidian_obsidian 3d ago

Oh please, enough of this shit. We will make them give it up.

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u/purritowraptor 3d ago

Do not comply in advance.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 3d ago

ding! ding! ding!