WTF?? exiting voters in VA and one lady said she voted on the basis of confederate statues

[jodymarie aimee]

Chuckle's Show interviewing exiting voters in VA and one lady said she voted on the basis of confederate statues...What year are we in? All the meat and potato issues we got and they are voting on this crap?

[greeny2323]

1. I wouldn't watch those

I wouldn't watch those things. It will just be frustrating, or worse.

[Hoyt]

2. Hey, symbols of a heritage of hatred are important to some people.

[chimpymustgo]

8. Hoyt - you know white supremacy is at the heart of almost everything in politics.

They will not let go. In ways some of them don't even know how to give voice to, race drives every argument.

[still_one]

3. Let's not kid ourselves, if Northam loses, it is just another piece of evidence of what the country

really is.

It should have been very clear with who occupies the WH now, a racist, bigot, and a sexist, so none of this should come as a great surprise.

Here's hoping that our better angels prevent our descent into depravity

[onenote]

10. It also will be evidence of a poorly run campaign

It should never have gotten close. In the June primaries, 543,000+ votes were cast in the Democratic primary, which Northam won over Bernie-backed Tom Periello by almost 12 points.

Over on the repub side, only 366,000 votes were cast in a bitterly divided primary that Gillespie won by less than 5,000 votes. Gillespie got 84,000 fewer votes than the losing Democratic primary candidate.

But while the repubs have come together, in part because Gillespie sucked up to the Trump-ites with racist, fear mongering ads, Northam and the Democrats have not presented a picture of unity, particularly as of late. And Northam's television advertising was dreadful.

I'm not giving up hope, and yes, if Gillespie wins it will reflect people responding to his Trump-ish appeals. But Northam didn't fight back effectively at all.

[still_one]

12. People love their racist confederate general statues

[kacekwl]

15. How do you fight back against this kind of

lying, dog-whistle, racist clearly anti-American campaign like Gillespie and trump ran. With facts? With policy ? There are people who want to believe what these assholes are spreading and you can run the best campaign ever and still never win them over. The devils they have been told to fear including and especially the big bad government are the enemy and those like trump and his mini-me Gillespie will release them from all the bad deals they are suffering from.They now will be rich and successful because all those who's fault it is they are not will be gone making Amercia great again.

[onenote]

24. In a post above, I took some shots at the Northam campaign

While I still think their ad campaign was weak, I didn't give enough credit to the amazing work done by thousands of volunteers supporting Democrats at the most local as well as statewide level. They did a brilliant job getting out the vote.

[procon]

4. Simpleminded morans.

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about politics
Don't know much about geography
Don't know much about technology
Don't know much about algebra

But statues, any idiot can pick a chunk of rock.

[marylandblue]

5. Symbolic issues are very important to some people

This is true on both sides. It's likely the woman is conservative or leans conservative on a lot of other issues too, so I'd wager it didn't really change her vote. It's just what she's been thinking about lately because it's been in the news.

[onenote]

6. Does the Charlottesville march ring a bell

there are folks in Virginia that still are in love with the myth of the old South -- they're still taught it in school.

I know, I've lived in Virginia for over 60 years.

[Matthew28]

7. This will give us a real idea

of the strength of the Trump base.

If we lose then the polls are probably wrong once again as they were election night.

[L. Coyote]

14. Or the election is rigged again.

[Miigwech]

9. Media is so lame

The only issues media wants to inform the public about are the latest twitter war tabloid stories .... really, people are so ill informed about the important issues that they only know about the BS

[Drahthaardogs]

11. She is obviously VERY intelligent and should be

Taken seriously

[L. Coyote]

13. Identity politics only works if you identify with the majority. Let them isolate themselves.

[coolsandy]

16. They no longer have to hide. It's ok to be racist, misogynist, homophobic. Trump said it was ok.

[TeamPooka]

17. "Sure, we might be living in a radioactive apocalypse but at least we got to keep the racist statues

[ileus]

18. Well she's gonna lose and we're gonna finishing trashing her statues.

[Ilsa]

19. Who put the statues on the ballot?

Geez, I hope it wasn't a democrat.

Why didn't McAuliffe just take them down like they did in New Orleans? Was it beyond his reach?

[Tatiana]

20. There is a reason Gillespie went racist and talked up the confederate statues.

They had the polling #s to suggest it could be a winning strategy.

I just hope there is enough of a firewall and decent people to overcome the racists that Trump has and continues to cultivate.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. I'm assuming a LOT of voters are voting on their sudden love of Confederate statues

I doubt if most of those idiots gave it a thought one way or another before all the controversy. These are the kinds of people who do what they're told. And they're being told "heritage."

[Crunchy Frog]

22. People vote their tribal identity more than their self interest.

I think this is an aspect to human nature that the Dems need to figure out.

[book_worm]

23. Obviously a Trump supporter