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Democrats May Lose, but Their Narrative Is Never to Blame

Commentary Election post-mortems used to be pretty simple affairs. The winners would claim a “mandate” to govern, and the losers would mutter to themselves something approximating to the late Dick Tuck’s public pronouncement when he lost a race for the California Senate in 1966: “The people have spoken, the bastards.” But sooner or later they’d…


McAuliffe Wins Virginia Democratic Gubernatorial Primary

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor. McAuliffe will face Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin in the general election in November. Republicans have not won a statewide race in Virginia in more than a decade. Virginia’s term limits don’t allow for governors to serve consecutive terms. McAuliffe previously served from…