Wow. Virginia and New Jersey Governor races are complete blood baths. Sherrill won the Jersey race with 56% of the vote and Spanberger won with 57% of the vote. The Democrat in the Lieutenant Governor race won with 55% of the vote. That Jay Jones race for Virginia was a little closer. He won with 52.5% of the vote, but it's impressive because he beat the sitting Attorney General.
One thing I read was that Jersey has not had a Republican or Democrat win 3 straight terms in the Governor race. That just happened with Sherrill's victory. Fox News kept trying to hype this race up as close and I seen a few articles from other sources talking about a potential upset in Jersey. LOL at them.
The party out of power in Washington does tend to be more hyped to vote during off year elections. In 2021 I remember certain people with agendas on this forum trying to make something of a Republican winning the Virginia Governor race and the New Jersey Democrat Governor only winning re-election with 51% of the vote. Then the mid-term elections came around in 2022 and Republicans performed very poorly.
This time it feels different. Sherrill winning Jersey by such a large margin, at least 375,000 votes signal a pretty big energy shift for Democrats. Phil Murphy won his first Governor term in Jersey with a similar result and the following year in the mid-terms Dems won like 30 something seats in the US House of Representatives and took control of the House.
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