A pox on Vox for its myopic analysis of the Virginia gubernatorial election

 

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Could you run that by me again, please?

Youngkin played his cards carefully craftily, avoiding some of the bread-and-butter Republican issues like Second Amendment rights and abortion in favor of fearmongering racist dog whistles about critical race theory, which is not actually being taught in primary schools, and “election integrity,” nodding toward Trump’s claims of a stolen election while still assuring establishment Republicans that he upheld democracy and believed Joe Biden’s presidency is legitimate.

 It's a off-year election, people.  It's not a referendum on anything.

Moreover, way too many Democrats sat this one out.  McAuliffe received 825,450 fewer voters than Biden in 2020, a decrease of 34%

Youngkin received 294,312 fewer votes than Trump in 2020, a decrease of 15%.

Call it "The Case of the Quadrennial Democrats".  Wisconsin has 72 of them.