It obviously doesn't matter to me personally who the governor of Virginia is. There are a lot of reasons why a Republican won. As I said the other day, this election is really just going to prove everyone's priors.
The sad part is that we are now going to get 12 straight months of Republicans harping on Critical Race Theory being taught to 7 year olds, which is of course bullshit. If we can take some solace in last night's results, it's that the GOP will now promptly overdo it on the CRT nonsense.
Covid isn't gone; the economy is wonky; crime is perceived to be up; Washington seems dysfunctional (though it's not). To a certain degree ending Covid and getting the economy straightened out is simply a function of time at this point.
For all the talk of harbingers of doom for Biden and Democrats, at this point (and there are still votes to count) Youngkin has fewer votes than Trump got in 2020 when he lost by 10 points. Off year elections are weird. However, this will hopefully kick Manchin in the arse and get him to follow through on Democratic policies. No one care how narrow the margins are in the Senate: Dems didn't vote last night and some of that was because they haven't seen the progress they hoped for.
This morning NPR was running a story on a CRT referendum in a Gilmore, CT school system. Only at the very end did they note that CRT was not being taught in public schools. If that's the sort of political coverage we can expect, I'm not sure how the Democrats can tweek their messaging apparatus.
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