Today is one of America's stupidest political traditions: off-year elections. Americans vote more frequently than almost any other country, and that creates weird voter fatigue. Our town votes in May for the budget. Just moronic.
The only race anyone cares about is the Virginia governor's race. It is unexpectedly tight for a state that seemed to be trending hard towards the Democrats. On the other hand, Ralph Northam was in a tough race and won easily.
As someone said, the results of the Virginia election will simply confirm your prior beliefs about the Democratic Party. For instance, if you believe that the Democrats are feckless politicians who can't sell a narrative, anything but a blow-out win for McAuliffe will confirm that. In the unlikely event McAuliffe does win by more than 7 points, that will prove that only Dems outside DC are able to sell a narrative, or that Youngkin shows that Dems will try to slink along on anti-Trumpism for as many elections as possible.
The California recall was supposed to be close and it wasn't. By a long shot. Hopefully Virginia shows the same trend.
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