Election results: blue states remain blue
In Virginia, all the Democrat candidates – including Jay Jones – have been been declared victors. Jones’ contest for AG was the closest, probably due to the revelations of his venomous statements about Republicans, but not enough voters cared. Then again, many people in Virginia voted early and before the news of Jones’ texts came out, so perhaps if voting had all occurred on Election Day it might have gone differently.
Virginia’s results were said to have been affected by the fact that many federal workers live there, and they’re not happy about Trump’s cost-cutting layoffs as well as the shutdown (although why they wouldn’t blame the latter on Democrats is beyond me). Current Republican Governor Youngkin’s victory in 2021 was in part because of backlash about trans issues, but that ship has sailed and no longer motivates voters there (he was term-limited and couldn’t run again, at least not for consecutive terms). And Donald Trump lost there in 2024 by about six points.
In New Jersey, Sherill the Democrat has been projected as the winner. Trump also lost there in 2024 by about six points.
Not good news, and I certainly don’t expect the NYC news to be good, either. The polls there closed at 9 PM.
UPDATE 9:25 PM: Mamdani seems on track to win, as expected.
I didn’t anticipate good news tonight, except perhaps in the Virginia AG race. And I didn’t get any.
Should we be surprised at the voters’ choices? No, I think not.
The American Republic is dwindling into past history, replaced by a wave of secular materialism and the most superficial general public attitudes, almost imbecilic in dimension. We see this in the pro-Mamdani crowd; airheads, mostly. “Gimme a fix, Mister”. Right.
Get used to it, folks. This is what it’s going to be like until the mid-terms in 2030.
CC™, the font of wisdom, in his esteemed opinion.
And as to the beltway feds, keep cutting the headcount, and don’t let the agencies use staff augmentation.
Should we be surprised at CICERO’s and Bauxite’s opinions? No, I think not.
History is not a straight line. This is an off-off-year election. Democrats are angry and confused. They are making a stand in their blue redoubts.
In the meantime overall Dem polls are at all-time lows. Trump is steadily pushing back the unpopular woke agenda, securing the border, and making surprising advances in foreign policy.
By this time next year the DOJ cases against the Deep State may not send Dems to prison but will reveal explosive corruption. Much, hopefully most of the federal money and dark money funding Dem activism and Antifa will dry up.
Plus we will start to see how well a Mamdani NYC works.
I’d much rather be a Republican voter next year than Democrat.
Next year will be the battle of the Gerrymanders. California passed the proposition 50 gerrymander overwhelmingly today. But this will just balance the Texas redistricting. I don’t have the exact details, but other states have already redistricted and will redistrict. And Scotus will weigh in on racial gerrymandering. Depending on the decision, this could lead to a lot more Republican districts. Another positive note is that most Democrat states are already heavily gerrymandered. And if they try more redistricting they get push back like in Illinois, where black legislators are complaining that their districts will be diluted.
The dying often rally. My father did. So are the donkeys.
“ What Is an End-of-Life Rally?
When a person facing the end of life “rallies,” they become more stable and may want to talk or even begin eating and drinking again. Some people describe this phenomenon as a sudden burst of energy before death. This period of perking up can be accompanied by such a notable change in mental clarity that hospice professionals have coined the phrase “terminal lucidity” to describe it. This change in cognition and behavior goes against everything families learn about the physical signs that the end of life is near. We grasp at what seems to be a turnaround in our loved one’s health and sigh with relief. It appears as if they are going to hang on for a while, right? Sadly, rallying is usually a hallmark pre-death sign.”
Democrats seem to be easily manipulated.
So Dems won in Dem States. What a Surprise. But for the midterms, Rep better get their s—- in order.
Kruiser is trying to make lemonade, he may get the recipe right.
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/11/04/the-morning-briefing-brutal-night-for-republicansor-was-it-n4945603
Even if revealed before the election, this probably would not have made any difference.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/11/04/who-is-bankrolling-mamdani-linda-sarsour-tells-all-n4945591
Bottom line: “So now we know. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has a long history of fighting against counterterror measures and branding foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression as “Islamophobic,” is bankrolling the candidate who has pledged to dismantle the NYPD’s counterterror unit.”
One can hope Mamdani goes full Marxist as he says he will, NY’ers deserve what they voted for.
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@Skip:what they voted for.
With 90% of votes in, Mamdani has over 50% of them. All boroughs are about 90% in, so Staten Island (the only one where Cuomo had a majority) is not riding to the rescue.
So far looks like the polls hugely overestimated the support for Sliwa, and underestimated Cuomo and Mamdani by about the same amount.
> (although why they wouldn’t blame the latter on Democrats is beyond me)
The TV told them to blame Trump. I live in Northern Virginia and there are no shortage of people who are otherwise intelligent, but accept uncritically everything the news media have to say. It’s quite the bubble up here.
Blue states like . . . (checks notes) . . . Georgia and Mississippi?
https://thehill.com/homenews/5589670-gop-incumbents-lose-seats/
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-mississippi-vote-gop-supermajority-10994762
I saw a reference to the fact that the GOP Gov candidate in NJ did a lot worse than he did the last time he ran (2021?) because 250K people had left the state since last time he ran (the leavers presumably being political refugees who fled to redder states).
Another minor indication of increasing polarization-
Texas had no statewide races, but there were a whole lot of Amendments to the state constitution. Two of them were red meat gimmes- one codifying that only citizens may vote, the other stating that parents are the proper people to oversee the raising of their children.
Both of these gimme amendments passed in 253 of Texas’ 254 counties. The only county that voted both of them down was Travis County (Austin).
Yes, the blue will vote blue. However a couple of things stand out to me:
1) a relatively small office race, Public Service Commisioner, in GA goes to the Ds. OK, GA is shifting purple, but this should be a warning to the GOP.
2) The already in-progress flight of major wealth from NYC to FL. I’m not sure how to interpret this. Good, that a lot of Mamdani’s tax base is fleeing, Bad, in that like what happened to Colorado, those NYC’ers will probably bring their leftist politics with them.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/nyc-election-fears-drive-100m-florida-real-estate-surge-nervous-new-yorkers-flee-south
All, in all, the GOP should take heed.
“is no shortage”
Subject-verb disagreement really bugs me, and I go ahead and do it myself.
“Why they wouldn’t blame the latter on Democrats is beyond me.”
People seem to get their news from social media. Talk about “low information voters”! And if they are getting their information from social media, they think it is all the Republicans fault for not capitulating to Democrat demands — that would, they believe, be the “reasonable” thing to do. Therefore, the Republicans are unreasonable and at fault.
One facebook friend from NYC who is Jewish voted for Mandami. He believes that all the all the Mamdani stuff about his being anti-Jewish is made up. He counts himself well-informed, but he only reads the NY Times. And social media.
We are Two Americas. The Trump hating blue states. And the Red States that don’t hate Trump.
Cornhead on November 5, 2025 at 11:16 am:
“The Trump hating blue states. And the Red States that don’t hate Trump.”
Our differences are finer grained than that.
The real problems and issues coming from our intermixing become more visible when we look at the red/blue counties and the red/blue precinct maps. There are very few truly “red” cities and a core blue urban area can expand into purple and then blue suburbs, as physicsguy alludes with fears for FL or TX or other mostly red “states”. The examples of OR, WA, CO, and perhaps AZ and now GA and MS(??) are already acknowledged. Presumably these venues still contain substantial numbers of red leaning folks who are now too often overridden on the laws and state constitutional measures they might favor.
AesopFan’s references to Robert Conquest require serious thought as to how we counter that tendency. It will probably require concentrated campaigns of “if you left a blue state to get away from their failures, don’t bring that thinking into our red state, county, and precincts.” Ron DeSantis provides some examples with his policy and issue pushing, but he is still only one man.
Chases Eagles on November 5, 2025 at 12:18 am:
“… This period of perking up can be accompanied by such a notable change in mental clarity that hospice professionals have coined the phrase “terminal lucidity” to describe it.”
In his recent book Taking Religion Seriously [2025], Charles Murray discusses his gradual conversion from religious skeptic to believing in God and then (partly influenced by CS Lewis) accepting the truth of Christianity as established in the New Testament. Part of the evidence he presents for the existence of a soul as something separate from the physical brain and neurochemistry is this resurgence of lucidity. He cites doctors reporting that this observation extends to people who have been in a deep coma and/or have sufficient brain damage that the medical opinion is these patients cannot be using their brain to provide this lucidity. Therefore it must be their separate soul providing this short term capability.
He is not dogmatic about any of this, offering only his personal history, and the set of several dozen books and sources he has read over the last few decades that helped him come to his final religious acceptance, and therefore they might also influence nonbelieving skeptics.
I have not yet been convinced by his discussion, but I have to admit this (new to me) “evidence” around lucidity is worthy of deeper consideration concerning the nature of spirituality and consciousness.