I haven’t seen the democratic socialist one, but yup, VA has now elected it’s first transgendered state legislator.
DAVID WASSERMAN 8:02 PM
Breaking: Danica Roem, a Democrat, has defeated 26-year Del. Bob Marshall, a Republican, in House District 13, becoming the first transgender person elected to Virginia’s state legislature.
Making it even sweeter, the Republican that got beat was an author of an anti-transgender “bathroom bill” in VA.
Ouchie. race-baiting sociopath is losing by a wider margin than the Republican running for Lt. governor.
With 72% in he’s leading by close to 6 %.
Edit: @ more than 75 % in he’s now up more than 6 %
@ 78 % its near a 7 % kick in the ass for Ed.
@ 80 % it’s now a 7 % spread. In today’s political landscape this qualifies as a thrashing.
And AP just called NJ for the Democrat.
Seems Ed Gillespie, formerly a respected Republican establishment guy, ran a new kind of race ( trumpist ) and won the title of racist for life. And Governor never.
Republicans getting absolutely destroyed. Dear God, this is amazing, did not expect this. Great night for us!!
I voted today. My vote has no national implications. Too much is made of local elections. No one who cast a ballot for my town supervisor or county executive had Trump in mind. Probably most Virginia voters cast a ballot based on the issues affecting the state.
And he is already up by 5%. Looking like it could go to 8%.
One Virginian who hangs around here is @beattycat, thanks to him 
from everybody.
Y New Jersey Tambien, …
Nate Cohn at the Grey Lady is predicting a 8.5 point margin for Northam.
Personally, this is my favorite Dem win tonight. Just AWESOME. IN YOUR FACE GOP BIGOTS!!!
On the one hand, thank goodness.
On the other hand, the fact that 1/2 the college educated whites in Va pulled the lever for the guy running as a neo-Confederate is just embarrassing. As many of us know, it’s not just the hillbillies.
Ohmygod, it just gets better 
lmfao…
Must be something in my eye. This is such good news.
Yay-ess!!! Thank you, Virginia! Let’s take our country back, people!
Anyone want to bet on the number of GOP “retirements” tomorrow?
You have to give Tom Perez credit. He absolutely predicted this last night on Chris Hayes’ show: especially with his emphasis on the down ballot races.
Just a couple of days of so we had a debate on this board about whether democrats were too incompetent or disorganized (or both) to win. I hope that argument goes away for a while – at least until after the mid-terms.
Nice to see that Trump’s magic political pixie dust can have such a positive effect on the sane part of the electorate.
Looks like the heavily Republican VA House of Delegates is going to flip.
FLIP, FOLKS. It’s 66-34 right now, and the GOP is losing in 18 of their seats, including this one:
