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Bellwether
Virginia's Political Transformation, 2006-2020
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2022
Summary
Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state. Citizens in the Commonwealth had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. In 2000, the GOP had just won the governor’s race, held both U.S. Senate seats, and had majorities in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate. By 2020, all of that had been reversed. During that period, Democrats won four of five governors contests, elected two US senators, and voted for Democratic presidential candidates in every year since 2008. In 2019, the House of Delegates, where Republicans maintained a 68-32 supermajority in 2011, flipped to Democratic control. With it, the state became a Democratic trifecta, where the party controlled all of the state’s levers of power. Bellwether tells the story of how this happened from someone who was “in the room at the time.” David Toscano began his service in the House in 2006 and became the Democratic Leader of the body in 2011. He examines the special nature of Virginia politics, the demographic changes that underpin much of its shifting political fortunes, and the policies and personalities at the center of the state’s dynamics for the last two decades.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-7322-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7168-7323-5
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
308
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List of Illustrations No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
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The Cardinal Rule No access Pages 1 - 16
Virginia Exceptionalism No access Pages 17 - 38
Race Matters No access Pages 39 - 54
Reckoning with “The Virginia Way” No access Pages 55 - 72
Disruption and Continuity No access Pages 73 - 90
Pay to Play? No access Pages 91 - 110
Governors Come and Go No access Pages 111 - 126
Power in the Legislature No access Pages 127 - 142
Advocates No access Pages 143 - 164
Hot Buttons No access Pages 165 - 180
Because We Can No access Pages 181 - 196
The Power of Forty-Nine No access Pages 197 - 218
