The state’s population center, once in Cumberland County, is now in Caroline County and moving north each year.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is founding editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org or 540-529-1136.
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Lynchburg turned blue for about a week, but late votes kept it red. What election trends tell us about the Hill City.
On election night, it appeared that Abigail Spanberger had become the first Democrat to carry Lynchburg in a governor’s race in 20 years. In the end, she didn’t. Here’s what happened and what it might mean.
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The polls said the attorney general’s race would be close. It wasn’t. Here’s what happened.
Many polls also said the lieutenant governor’s race might be close, too. Only one pollster got the margins of all three races right. Here’s a look at why the the polls differed from the results.
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How many House seats did Earle-Sears cost Republicans? At least 10, but maybe all 13. Here’s the math.
Earle-Sears ran so poorly in all the districts where Republicans lost seats that it might have been impossible for any of them to overcome the deficit she put them in.
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Here’s another reason why Spanberger’s margin was so large: Earle-Sears failed to excite working-class Republicans.
Spanberger consistently retained Kamala Harris voters across the state. Earle-Sears’ vote was inconsistent; she did well at retaining more affluent Donald Trump voters but saw many working-class Republican voters stay home.
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Let’s yak about the Yaks. The Salem RidgeYaks, that is.
Social media comments say the new name was a swing and a miss. Merchandise sales say it was a solid hit.
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5 ways things could go wrong for Spanberger and the Democrats
Every governor, and every legislative majority, face challenges. Here are some of the ones the new governor and the expanded House majority will face.
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Virginia’s blue wave was real but not as big as it looked. Here are the numbers.
The Democratic vote was up, but a big part of the election story was how much the Republican vote was down. That magnified the Democratic wave and made it look bigger.
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Not all the winners and losers in this week’s election were on the ballot
And some of the losers might have been winners in other ways. Here’s who comes out ahead and who doesn’t.
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13 reasons why Spanberger and the Democrats won so big. Trump is just one of them.
It’s tempting for commentators to attribute the breadth of this victory to just one cause — the unpopularity of President Donald Trump in Virginia. He certainly played an outsized part in the election, but he wasn’t the only factor.
