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My argument is growing up here in the 60s-80's the state was already pretty much gerrymandered when it came to the EC. I hate the fact that's its all or nothing. In my perfect world votes should be proportioned. I've come around to the fact that House districts should multi membered as well. No more dividing states into fiefdoms. This isn't the 1700, 1800s, communication is a bit better, for now

Counting on NoVa to put it over the top. Yep, there a lot of MAGA's up in Horse Country (Spent too much time traveling Rt 17 between Fredericksburg and Winchester.

Makes a lot of sense. What I'm seeing in Virginia, not just recently but from past history is that most voters these day seem to follow family/regional lines. Going back to at least 1968, if not before the trend seems seems to be "my family has always been ______> so I'm voting ______. I mention 1968 or more probably 1972 because that's when the Southern (Old time Confederate leaning Democrats "got religion" and started voting Republican. Partially thanks to George McGovern as the Presidential candidate, still some fallout with 1968's Democratic Convention riots and a popular "Democratic" Governor who made his return as a Republican. Very little has changed with the exception of what was once rural exurbs have slowly become suburban suburbs. The most "conservative" of the bunch still want lots of farmland and trees, and the Damn Yankees and halfbacks keep moving in. A lot of the "farmland" has basically been abandoned (Heirs that have moved on and have no desire for the property) And newcomers who wan the convenances of more populous areas (giant grocery stores and such)

I wanted to expand on this a bit. While Ike (and Roosevelt )were probably grateful for Stalin being an ally. They did keep an eye on Joe (especially Truman and Eisenhower) and his successors. The enemy of my enemy sort of thing...

Those darn bone spurs. They've forced him to use a chauffeured golf cart on the course. instead of walking like a REAL man

But I can still hope they constantly wake up in the middle of the night after sweat dreams of buyers remorse.

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Tucker is supposedly reaping what he sowed, same for MAGA MARGE and anyone else who now is starting to "see the light". May they have eons of insomnia over their sins

Curious, which NoVA suburb are near?

Another MAGA Woman gets canned for her sexual activities, MAGA Men get away with murder

As soon as he sobers up and remember where he hid the "proof". Probably sometime in the next two weeks

Junior seems to be the front-runner there. He'll split the profits with RFK Jr

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Agree to a point. The early seasons and novels were very good, the last couple of years have turned into a slog. Actually I feel the same about the Daniel Silva “Gabriel Allon novels. Used to look forward to the annual July drop. I’ll still buy it but it seems that retirement for the Artist/Spy is lacking something, I kind of miss the old Israeli spy group. He’s been doing them for 20 plus years now. The current bad guys have turned into very rich mafia types

But we were around 13, not grown men

Having had a few "encounters" with Colonial Williamsburg's Martha Washington, I can attest this is close to her "public' personality. I don't know about her privately..

All together now....

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