Virginia Democrats sweep legislative elections after campaigning on abortion rights
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Updated 1:01 AM EST, November 8, 2023
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday's legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power. The outcome is a sharp loss for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his fellow Republicans, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on their effort to secure a GOP trifecta.
"It's official: there will be absolutely no abortion ban legislation sent to Glenn Youngkin's desk for the duration of his term in office, period, as we have thwarted MAGA Republicans' attempt to take total control of our government and our bodies," Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Mamie Locke said in a statement referencing Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
Virginia was one of just four states holding legislative races this year, and it's something of a microcosm of other closely divided states that will be critical in next year's presidential election. That fueled outsized interest in the legislative races, as both parties closely monitored the results for signs about voter moods heading into the 2024 campaign.
With a full statehouse majority, Democrats will have even greater leeway to thwart Youngkin's policy agenda, though they will have to work with him to advance their own.
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After campaigning heavily on abortion rights, Democrats have retaken full control of Virginia’s legislature following two years of divided power. They will have broad leeway to thwart GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s agenda, including proposed limits on abortion. http://bit.ly/3QnY5Vc
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday's legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power.
The outcome is a sharp loss for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on an effort to secure a GOP trifecta.
Virginia is one of just four states holding legislative races this year, and it's something of a microcosm of other closely divided states that will be critical in next year's presidential election. That has fueled outsized interest in the legislative races, as both parties are closely monitoring the results for signs about voter moods heading into the 2024 campaign.
With a full statehouse majority, Democrats will have even greater leeway to thwart Youngkin's policy agenda, though they will have to work with him to advance their own.
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Updated 11:25 PM EST, November 7, 2023
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Democrats held their majority in the state Senate on Tuesday, but control of the House of Delegates remained unsettled late into the evening, with vote counting still underway in key races.
The Democrats' victory in the upper chamber ended the prospect of a Republican trifecta that would have allowed Gov. Glenn Youngkin to swiftly move on conservative policy priorities that Senate Democrats have been able to stymie in his first two years in office. The chamber has been under Democratic control since 2020.
Every General Assembly seat was on the ballot in this year's hard-fought election cycle.
Virginia is one of just four states holding legislative races this year, and it's something of a microcosm of other closely divided states that will be critical in next year's presidential election. That has fueled outsized interest in the legislative races, as both parties are closely monitoring the results for signs about voter moods heading into the 2024 campaign.
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And that's a very good reason.
I hope you don't have to go to work tomorrow!
I wanna see a "blue wave" this year.
And thankfully I retired almost 7 years ago now but I'm a "robin" up by 4 am most mornings, so this late night stuff is rough... But then i did take a 45 minute nap so that's probably why I'm still on. 
"Get your chores done before noon and then you can do what you want after that".
And if I don't accomplish any chore in the morning, well I can forget about doing anything productive later!
The results give me hope for '24
Republicans Non Carborundum!
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The 45 minute nap that I took earlier this afternoon is the only thing holding me at the moment.
Otherwise... 
we got at least 51 seats 
We gotta send a message to the fake pollsters.
and every thing else that can cross...
and they updated the headline (I updated the OP)!!!
and sending those healing thoughts your way!!!!! 
Thank you for doing your part! Please rest well. Hope you feel better soon, and that this win helps. 
It is too important a decision to take casually, especially when either partner is not on board. You have to be someone capable of thinking of the kid first.
My own marriage ironically enough broke up because my ex-husband (from whom I am amicably divorced and still very close to) was not open to having a kid. I was worried anyway because of the state of everything and because my career was far from stable. However, I was still a “maybe someday” on exactly one kid. Soon after we got married my husband went from “maybe” to an outright “no” and our marriage never recovered. I was not aware at the time of how opposed to having kids he was.
That was the start of a bad patch of my life.
Now 15 years later I am happily single and childfree and focused anew on my work (which also suffered due to other circumstances). But our marriage was destroyed by our not being on the same page in 2008.
As it turns out I am not sure I could ever have had both a job in scientific research and a kid. Of the two I unambiguously pick science over a kid. Over time I would probably have realized this and vetoed the kid myself as incompatible with my work. I don’t think I would have wanted to leave science, have a job outside science and focus on child rearing. I know my limitations and find science work too hard to combine with a serious responsibility like that. Even then I probably knew that, but an “outright no” on a kid makes you question things.
At the time faced with a “hard no” I felt a bit like “woah it looks like we skipped a rather important conversation beyond vague generalities”.
I never blamed my ex. He was not unfair..it is just that somehow in all our rants about politics and the world, we skipped a rather important convo .
He is essentially honest and didn’t want to give me false hope and so when it came up after marriage he disillusioned me fast.
This much is true that money and kids are the two things any couple should thoroughly discuss before getting hitched. We made a huge mistake in not adequately talking about it prior to marriage.
I met some truly awesome Dems from Virginia in Washington, DC at the 2018 Women's March!
SOOO happy that they can now thwart POS Youngkin's agenda! 
Anytime anyone commits a crime in Arlington, conservative commenters blast our prosecutor for being too liberal on criminal justice reform. She was reelected unanimously. 
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