The Campaign Update: New York Times Effort to Rationalize Nov. 3 Democrat Defeats is an Epic Fail
It's the wokeness, stupid.
The Democrat operatives at the New York Times are beside themselves this morning. They’re worried. They’re shocked. They’re almost in a panic over the results of last Tuesday’s elections as they continue to break down the demographics showing how the GOP sweep in Virginia and near-sweep in New Jersey came about. Like their clients at the DNC, they don’t understand it, and it shows in their writing.
The Times published a piece late Sunday in which its Democrat activist writers attempted to analyze reasons why rural white voters turned out to vote for the GOP’s candidates in record-setting percentages. Those percentages, mind you, were so high that Republican candidates were able to overcome any efforts by the Democrats to steal the election in the dead of night in a state in which they haven’t held the reins of power since 2009. That’s a big margin.
The Times, in its story titled “Democrats Thought They Bottomed Out in Rural, White America. It Wasn’t the Bottom,” notes that:
In 2008, there were only four small Virginia counties where Republicans won 70 percent or more of the vote in that year’s presidential race. Nowhere was the party above 75 percent. This year, Mr. Youngkin was above 70 percent in 45 counties — and he surpassed 80 percent in 15 of them.
Oh.
The writers also note:
Mr. Youngkin not only won less populated areas by record margins — he was outpacing former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 showing in even the reddest counties, including by six percentage points in Bath County — but he also successfully rolled back Democratic gains in the bedroom communities outside Washington and Richmond, where many college-educated white voters had rejected Republicanism under Mr. Trump.
Oh.