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VIRGINIA ELECTION RESULTS: Will Voters OK Spanberger’s Gerrymander? UPDATE: Network Declares ‘Yes’ Win

UPDATE 8:49 p.m. ET: NBC News has just declared that “yes” will win the referendum vote in Virginia. Only 80% of the vote has been counted, but the remaining vote in Fairfax County and Richmond will be enough. UPDATE 8:39 p.m. ET: Lead for “No” is less than 30,000 votes: YES …………….. 1,197,131 (49.5%) NO […]

IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

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’: […]

VA’s 21Apr Vote: This Dog Don’t Hunt

by Smitty Somebody I know who is credentialed in the art of surveying people (pharma, for drug trials) was unimpressed by then quality of the question on the ballot tomorrow in Virginia. After feeding Spanberger’s dirty diaper into Claude: (Judge Hurley’s injunction) Much has happened since the 28Feb Fairfax GOP meeting. One speaker offered an […]

‘Several Young Individuals’: At Least Two Dead in North Carolina Mass Shooting UPDATE: Not the Expected Victims

Euphemisms are amazing, aren’t they? Perhaps you can think of some other phrases that would be more helpful in describing the likely participants in the situation that “escalated” into a mass shooting Monday morning at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Two people were killed after a mass shooting at a park in North Carolina […]

The Dumbest White Liberal in Georgia

Because I’m a native of Atlanta, I’m old enough to remember when DeKalb County was nice — affluent, prestigious, even. But the DeKalb County of 40 or 50 years ago has ceased to exist, and the only white people who live there now are those too stupid to understand their imminent peril. Hence the complaint […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Noemi Guzman and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Omaha Police on Tuesday saved Nebraska taxpayers the cost of incarcerating Guzman forever: An attempted kidnapping at an Omaha Walmart ended with a child injured and a woman dead. According to Omaha police, officers were called to the Walmart […]

Natives vs. Newcomers in Virginia: What ‘Spanberger’s Lobster’ Is Really About

When I was a young newspaper staffer in Rome, Georgia, my boss was Pierre-Rene Noth. He was half-Jewish and half-Catholic. His father had been a left-wing journalist in France before the family fled the Nazis. Pierre was very liberal, but when it came to journalism, his motto was “local, local, local.” Realizing that news consumers […]

Memo From the National Desk: Tales of Fear and Loathing in the Commonwealth

LOUISA, Virginia — It was a lovely 150-mile drive to get here for today’s “VOTE NO” rally at the Louisa County Courthouse. A sunny spring day, with the trees turning green, and the picturesque scenery of central Virginia, adorned with signs that the Old Dominion ain’t dead yet. “VOTE NO” signs are all over rural […]

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