The electorate may or may not be tilting toward Democrats. That may be temporary. Meanwhile, independents are breaking sharply against Donald Trump and thinking more highly of Joe Biden.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org.
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Some legislators face both primary challengers — and the challenge of many new voters
Redistricting has dramatically reshaped some districts. For Del. Marie March, 80% of the voters in her newly drawn district are new to her. But one Democratic senator in Northern Virginia is running in a district where almost 93% of the voters are new to him.
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Lynchburg has the slowest economic growth of any metro area in Virginia. Here’s why.
Over the past four years, Lynchburg’s three biggest employment sectors have all lost jobs. And the sectors growing fastest aren’t well-represented in the HIll City.
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Two voters in Bedford County don’t have a secret ballot. The Virginia Supreme Court could fix that.
A mistake by the Census Bureau means the new redistricting plan puts two voters in a precinct all their own, which means we can all know how they voted.
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Some countries are worried about falling birth rates. Most Virginia localities’ are even lower.
China, Japan, Italy, Russia and South Korea are all worried that they’re not producing enough babies. Some places in Virginia have even lower rates. Here is how that’s playing out.
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Here’s why newspapers are reducing print days
In “the old days, typically 80% or more of a newspaper’s revenue came from advertising. Now advertising dollars have been drained away by online competitors.
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How a proposed 614-acre development could turn around Pittsylvania County’s population decline
Depending on how many people live there, it could reverse more than a dozen years of population decline.
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Manchin gets a new deal on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the debt ceiling bill. Kaine says he’ll fight it.
The bill would clear the way for the completion of the controversial natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Chatham.
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How Virginia Tech’s academics will compare to SEC and Big Ten schools if it leaves the ACC
For now, the school is locked into the Atlantic Coast Conference, but speculation abounds about where some schools might land if the ACC implodes.
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Virginia once had runoff elections. Here’s how history might have been different if we still had them.
Turkey holds a presidential runoff election this weekend, which gives us occasion to look at Virginia’s brief experiment with runoffs and why they were abolished.