It's honestly a bit tiring hearing the same arguments every election of how Virginia starts off red then swings hard blue so it must be fraud. Those red counties are much smaller and always come in quick, while most of the population is in NoVA and those dense precincts take awhile to organize/count.
Also, it's only going to get more blue since people in the deep red counties of the West/South are moving to Southern states while Northeastern liberals are flocking to NoVA for DC jobs. 1 2
As someone who has lived inside the beltway their whole life, honestly the Fairfax/Alexandria/Arlington numbers were a bit lower even than what I think the demographics here currently are. Every Republican voter I know here was very motivated, while a lot of younger liberals were mad about the shutdowns here so they stayed home. VA isn't a swing state anymore and will only become more lopsided.
They vote at a higher rate, can't just go by registered population. If you look at 2016 exit polls they were 40% of the total vote, and in the 2018 exit polls they were 39% of the total vote. So that age group actually seems pretty spot on.
I guess maybe I don't understand fundamentally what the distinction is between "positive" and "false positive". I thought a false positive meant you don't have it at all, but does it actually mean not infectious?
Because even if you have a high cycle count that means you still have/had Covid right? Like it's still present, the amount is just so small that you either recovered already or aren't infectious.
I'll vote as always, but living inside the beltway definitely makes it feel hopeless at times.
I will say one thing though, I've been surprised at how strongly a lot of my liberal friends feel against the masks and restrictions at this point. They won't vote Trump either way, but maybe they'll just stay home.
There's around a 30% gap in early voting preference for Democrats vs Republicans. It's something like 60% of Democrats are planning on voting early compared to 30% of Republicans.
So even those Florida margins are very good for Trump. NC and PA are concerning though.
Never put much thought towards politics until 2008, mostly because I wasn't old enough to vote until then. I was basically a Democrat because everyone around me was and all I ever heard was how bad Bush was.
I became interested in Ron Paul during the 2008 primaries though, and seeing how the media treated him was my red pill on how much bias and agenda there is. From there I only did my own research and ended up moving away from the left.
Comments focusing on the immigrants are a bit off. Yes that is a thing, but NoVA is still a majority white, Arlington especially.
It's mostly people moving here after college for DC jobs. I'm a government contractor in my 20s, and it's really rare to meet a peer who's from Virginia. Like people are genuinely surprised when they hear that about me. A lot of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania from my experience.
I don't know if this is something that was actually just recently changed, but here is probably what they're referring to with the 6%.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/#Comorbidities
Masks are about reducing spread if you're infected, not preventing you from getting infected. Because like other people here have said your eyes are still exposed either way.
You should actually be happy he was wearing a mask, it might have stopped him from giving it to more people in your office.