Tuesday's elections offer fresh evidence that the ground is shifting beneath GOP
By Paul Kane November 8 at 12:35 PM
Republicans awoke Wednesday to a series of aftershocks following Democratic victories across Virginia and in other local elections that far exceeded either side’s expectations.
That performance, particularly in key suburban battlegrounds across the nation, validates a strategy that Democrats on Capitol Hill had embraced earlier this year — trying to win the majority by riding a wave of liberal resentment toward President Trump while also promising rational governance to centrist swing voters.
The resounding victory by Democrat Ralph Northam in the Virginia governor’s race tells only part of the story of Tuesday’s “old-fashioned thumping,” as former Virginia congressman Tom Davis called it. Beneath the top-of-the-ticket races, in many fundamental places, the ground shifted against Republicans in ways that have properly struck fear in the hearts of GOP consultants.
Of eight Republican-held districts in the Virginia House of Delegates that touched at least part of the congressional district of Rep. Barbara Comstock (R), Democrats won at least six.
Comstock is considered one of the 10 most vulnerable Republicans in next year’s midterm elections.
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I am sick of hearing this dog-whistling about MODERATES 
