I have heard McGuire and Good will go at it again., which may help a Dem if we nominate a good candidate. WTF is wrong with those two 30. 40% Sears counties
What was Good like? He was out of office before I started following the district. I know a little about McGuire primarying him because he backed DeSantis but nothing about what he did in office. If he did anything.
He was a Loud & Proud member of the Freedumb Caucus-- the bunch that sat around having ideological conversations like they were in a college dorm. Good did *nothing* for the district. Was ideologically opposed to it. (This district could use help, and actually in terms of Medicaid and SNAP, gets help.)
Good was more intelligent than McGuire, who is ambitious and will say anything he's told to say.
I am relieved to know that Good is not drawing down a full pension (or any pension, as I understand it). A person has to serve in Congress for 5 years. Cue MTG.
McGuire has attached himself so firmly to President Trump’s coattails that, assuming the latter’s popularity continues on its current path, he can be expected to lose his seat in either ‘26 or ‘28.
I don't think that's a given unless VA-05 makes an even more dramatic swing in the next year than it did in the past year.
Spanberger still lost to E-S by 8 points in this district. If the same number of votes are cast in the '26 congressional election as were cast in 2024, and if the margin is the same as the margin in the governor's race we just had, McGuire will be up by ~35,000 votes. To put that in context, the Democrat in 2024 got 42,000 votes in all of Albemarle County, so to close the gap someone would need to nearly double that number across the district.
Again I'm not an expert vote-counter by any means, and what I wrote has a lot of IFs and assumptions. I'm definitely not saying that McGuire is secure. But it's not obvious to me that he's in trouble either.
In my voting district in Louisa county Spanberger got 40 percent of the vote. Normally, only about 30 percent votes democratic. As a poll greeter who hands out sample democratic ballots, the number of insults and commie comments were below average. 😊
I have heard McGuire and Good will go at it again., which may help a Dem if we nominate a good candidate. WTF is wrong with those two 30. 40% Sears counties
What was Good like? He was out of office before I started following the district. I know a little about McGuire primarying him because he backed DeSantis but nothing about what he did in office. If he did anything.
He was a Loud & Proud member of the Freedumb Caucus-- the bunch that sat around having ideological conversations like they were in a college dorm. Good did *nothing* for the district. Was ideologically opposed to it. (This district could use help, and actually in terms of Medicaid and SNAP, gets help.)
Good was more intelligent than McGuire, who is ambitious and will say anything he's told to say.
Agree I had just moved to Lynchburg, did not know much about Good, but it did not take long to realize how bad he was. McGuire is a trump clown
I am relieved to know that Good is not drawing down a full pension (or any pension, as I understand it). A person has to serve in Congress for 5 years. Cue MTG.
McGuire has attached himself so firmly to President Trump’s coattails that, assuming the latter’s popularity continues on its current path, he can be expected to lose his seat in either ‘26 or ‘28.
I don't think that's a given unless VA-05 makes an even more dramatic swing in the next year than it did in the past year.
Spanberger still lost to E-S by 8 points in this district. If the same number of votes are cast in the '26 congressional election as were cast in 2024, and if the margin is the same as the margin in the governor's race we just had, McGuire will be up by ~35,000 votes. To put that in context, the Democrat in 2024 got 42,000 votes in all of Albemarle County, so to close the gap someone would need to nearly double that number across the district.
Again I'm not an expert vote-counter by any means, and what I wrote has a lot of IFs and assumptions. I'm definitely not saying that McGuire is secure. But it's not obvious to me that he's in trouble either.
In my voting district in Louisa county Spanberger got 40 percent of the vote. Normally, only about 30 percent votes democratic. As a poll greeter who hands out sample democratic ballots, the number of insults and commie comments were below average. 😊
Thanks for working the polls!
Thanks for explaining this process! (Or trying to….)