Virginia elects a Governor on November 2, 2021. A poll released on August 1, conducted by co/efficient, showed Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe at 45%, Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin at 40%, and Liberation Party nominee Princess Blanding at 2%.
On August 12, another co-efficient poll was released, which shows McAuliffe at 47% and Youngkin at 45%. That poll is not yet on the co/efficient website, and the news stories that mention the poll do not include any news about the Blanding showing.
This could have been the Libertarian Party candidate IF the LP of VA had actually had their act together enough to run somebody.
I wonder how many people will mistakenly think the Liberation Party is the Libertarian Party.
Internal party squabbling? Oh, do tell.
EXECS/JUDICS —
NONPARTISAN APPV – pending Condorcet – RCV done right.
Whatever the “Liberation” Party is, Virginia is another state that could use ranked choice or approval voting.
Something else that might be helpful would be if the northern counties of Virginia were split off and added to the proposed State of Columbia to be created out of DC. So many people in those places work in DC, anyway.
If the new state were called Columbia, what would the two-letter abbreviation be? CO is already taken by Colorado. CM? CB? But “Columbia” is better than “Douglass Commonwealth”, which some statehood proponents suggest.
DEVIL Commonwealth = DC
Mr. Winger: Douglass Commonwealth is an homage to Frederick Douglass. It doesn’t sound any stranger than the State of Washington or the proposed States of Jefferson, Franklin, or Sequoia. A State or Commonwealth of Douglass follows American tradition.
Walter – Wouldn’t matter if we had ranked choice or approval voting. I’d still be casting a blank ballot for that office.
Jim –
a REAL *democratic* election system will change the candidates and what they do
— esp legis candidates and major issues — taxes / spending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
part of the DOOM of the slavery monarchs/oligarchs in 1854-1865.
@ Richard Winger:
Given the currently politically incorrect character of anything associated with Columbus, maybe the new state should be called Potomac.
Expel D.C. From USA