By Sniffles
Well, it looks like Abigail Spanberger has managed to win the Virginia Governorship without those crucial votes from Kentucky. Whew! The only questions now are: 1) the size of her margin, 2) whether she'll be able to drag Attorney General candidate Jay Jones over the finish line, and 3) how many seats in the House of Delegates she'll help flip.
Fun fact: Abigail Spanberger was the Democrat who beat Dave Brat for his seat in Congress back in 2018. And of course you'll recall that Brat was the dude who stunned everyone by ousting the supremely entitled Eric "Young Guns" Cantor four years earlier in the Republican primary. It all seems like such a long time ago, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, State Senator Ghazala Hashmi has been elected Virginia's next Lt. Governor, beating that very weird, Nazi-porn-loving talk show host, John Reid. Polls had tightened recently, but as of right now Hashmi has a comfortable eight-point margin. She'll be the first Muslim woman in the country to win a statewide election. (Handy reminder to check the results in New York City when voting ends there at 9.)
We cats are also keeping our eyes on New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and — of course — Prop 50 in California. But for the moment, we're toasting Spanberger and Hashmi, and pondering the potential symbolism of the death of Dick Cheney. Finding out on a good-news Election Day that Cheney had checked out feels about right. He and George W. Bush only won in 2000 by 537 suspicious votes ("Jews for Buchanan!"), and because, as we all know, SCOTUS stopped the Florida vote count. It's heartbreaking to think how different our lives could be if that Presidential election had gone the other way. We cats HISS.
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