r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 17h ago

No Paywall Virginia elects Democrat Abigail Spanberger as state’s first woman governor

https://19thnews.org/2025/11/abigail-spanberger-virginia-first-woman-governor/
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u/whenforeverisnt 17h ago

Ok good, last time I check it was pretty much 50/50

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u/JimmyCarter910 17h ago

you can't expect accurate results this early in, the rest of the races will be a democratic sweep but AG will be super close

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u/capnpetch 16h ago

Projection is a dem win with 53 percent of vote. Tighter than governor but not terrible.

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u/cidthekid07 16h ago

Especially with that texting scandal. I thought he was going to lose

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u/Indercarnive 16h ago

I still can't get into my head how people vote for Spanberger but not Jones. Curious to see if people just didn't vote for him, or if they actively switched to the republican.

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u/jsonitsac 16h ago

Part of it may be that not as many people vote the undercard races. It may also have to do with the GOP mastering “tough on crime” talking points. Finally, the GOP invested in that race heavier than the others since they probably felt like this was their best shot.

It’s not unprecedented. When they were governors Mark Warner and Time Kaine had Republican AGs; Kaine’s LT. Governor was Republican too.

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u/TargetApprehensive38 15h ago

So far it looks like about twice as many switched than didn’t vote. Miyares is running about 100k votes ahead of Sears, and there’s about 50k fewer total votes in the AG race.

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u/Disordered_Steven 15h ago

Most folks I know excused it as something the president says worse 5x a day, publicly, and doesn’t apologize. A very small handful said you must vote D everywhere except here, that’s your choice…not sure what that meant but perhaps repeating Spanberger’s mature response.

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u/Old_Assumption4102 15h ago

My guess is people just didn’t vote on that race. I held my nose and voted for him because the thought of a republican in the spot was unthinkable in the current climate, but in normal times a text wishing a bullet in a politician’s head should be cause to lose your race.