IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!
Posted on | April 21, 2026 | No Comments

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.
Vote No, #Virginia.
Vote against gerrymandering.
Blue-Tailed Lobster https://t.co/OFSXoihqoL
— Old Dominion Post (@OldDominionPost) April 20, 2026
Pinwheels and the ‘lobster district’: How Virginia Democrats drew up a US House map to all but lock out Republicanshttps://t.co/MLFbjzKmml
— TheodoreHagemann (@Cue8baal) April 20, 2026
Obama is loudly pushing VA’s new ?lobster district map — which slashes Black voter share in VA-7 from 20% ?? ???? ?.?%, while flooding it with wealthy White NoVA suburban voters.
Pretty manipulative to use Obama to activate Democrats’ core base, but dilute their actual… https://t.co/sKuY2TDccg pic.twitter.com/wX4vtf367k
— Maggie Howell (@Mar__G_3) April 17, 2026
By now, every true Virginian knows to VOTE NO in today’s referendum (if you haven’t yet voted already voted early) and Smitty yesterday weighed in from his perch in the blue part of the Commonwealth.
Every analyst expects the vote to be close. Polls close tonight at 7 p.m., and then we’ll see if the deep-blue precincts in the D.C. suburbs can manufacture enough fake “yes” votes to cancel out the overwhelming “no” from the more rural areas of Virginia like Louisa County.