Gillespie barely made it through the primaries. In some states - people don't have to declare a party

Posted: Nov 9th, 2017 - 1:27 am In Reply to: This is not a surprise. The area around DC is chock full - of liberal govt workers (my brother included).

and actually vote in primaries for the opposing party. This is how we ended up with McCain in 2008.

I didn't vote for Gillespie in the primaries. Not surprised he didn't win. VA is blue now. It's been purple for a few years but because of Northern VA it's full fledged blue now.

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