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VA-GOV: Republicans may have pissed off Northern Virginia. (Original Post)
RandySF
Oct 2017
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elleng
(131,148 posts)1. Hope there are enough votes there to affect the result.
renegade000
(2,301 posts)2. VA doesn't have party registration...
So, he can't know it's a surge for Dems, unless he's assuming that NoVA = Dems (which statistically would be justified at this point).
RandySF
(59,276 posts)3. One can also look at the precincts from which the requests are coming.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)5. Unless it changed in the last decade or so, it has party registration.
It had open primaries, but still registration for parties.
FSogol
(45,529 posts)7. Not true. There is no registration by party in VA. N/t
Last edited Fri Oct 27, 2017, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)8. I swear I was a registered Democrat there in 1998
maybe I mixed it up with another place I lived. I remember the open primaries with the pledge to only vote in one parties primary.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)4. He's a Trump troll. I wouldn't trust a thing he says.
lancelyons
(988 posts)6. Yep the GOP is firing up the Purge Program... If you vote democrat... purge.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)9. I had to vote absentee ballot on a local referendum.
But spouse reported lots of folks in line ahead of him. GO VIRGINIA!