Identity Politics Won Virginia for the Democrats

By rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 9:51pm |

Justin Rosario at the Daily Banter suggests that identity politics won Virginia for the Democratic Party. Ed Gillespie got 63% of the votes of white men and 51% of the votes of white women. This happened despite a racist Republican campaign. Democratic winners included the first two Latina women elected to the House, the first openly transgender candidate, the first openly lesbian elected to office, the first Asian American elected, and only the second black Lt Governor elected. The election in Virginia suggests that diversity is a good thing. The officials replaced in the House were all white guys. Virginia elected people who represented the base of the Democratic Party

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Rachel Maddox noted tonight that Jennifer Carroll Foy , an African-American woman, and Elizabeth Guzman, a Latina, were both inspired by the Bernie Sanders group “Our Revolution”.

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 10:17pm

In New Jersey, Ashley.Bennett, a black woman, ran for a House seat to punish a Republican male legislator who mocked the Women’s March. The Women’s March was the largest post-election protest in history. Bennett won the seat.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/11/08/ashley_bennett_responded_to_a_local_legislator_s_sexist_facebook_post_by.html

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 10:26pm

NYT has an article on the diversity of the winners

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/politics/democrats-women-minorities.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 10:20am

I would add that Northam did get out the minority vote and did substantially better among whites than Hillary or other Democratic candidates have done in recent statewide elections:

Northam’s margins among white and suburban voters really stand out. If exit polls are accurate, he carried 42 percent of the white vote, which is well above the percentage won in Virginia by Hillary Clinton in 2016 (35 percent), Mark Warner in 2014 (37 percent), Terry McAuliffe in 2013 (36 percent), and Barack Obama in either 2008 (39 percent) or 2012 (37 percent).

This supports the argument that I have been making for years. In order to win, Democrats must stress intersectional issues like jobs, health care, and the environment while addressing directly the more discrete concerns of people and communities of color. Tom Perez made this exact point in his victory lap on CNN after the network called Virginia. Of course having Trump to run against doesn't hurt.

by HSG on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 4:48pm

Bernie Sanders endorsed Tom Perriello over Northam

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/sen-bernie-sanders-endorses-tom-perriello-in-virginia-governors-race/2017/04/04/e25784ba-1565-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.27d88307b706

Perriello lost to Northam

http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-ally-perriello-governor-trump-warren-virginia-governor-trump-corey-625300

I did note that Sanders inspired two women who won in Virginia on Tuesday.

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 4:58pm

This supports the argument that I've been making for years - when a full bonkers thieving crazoid gets in office, people will have that "oh shit" moment and start to take things seriously again. For a bit. A little bit. And then, the antidote to teh cray is talking about sensible bread-and-butter sane things.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 5:01pm

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