SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

MORE GRIMNESS FOR DEMS – FROM POWERLINE:   My friend who reads the New York Times alerted me to this article about rural America’s continued movement away from the Democratic party. I’m glad he did. The article is well worth reading.  The most noteworthy thing about the Times’s piece is the numbers it presents from Virginia:  "In 2008, there were only four small Virginia counties where Republicans won 70% or more of the vote in that year’s presidential race. Nowhere was the party above 75%. This year, Youngkin was above 70% in 45 counties — and he surpassed 80% in 15 of them."  Virginia has 95 counties. The Times doesn’t say how many of them are rural, but judging from the breakdown in this map it looks like Youngkin was above 70 percent in just about all of them.  The Times notes that Youngkin “was outpacing former President Donald Trump’s 2020 showing in even the reddest counties.”   It may be only this week that the full extent of the Democratic disaster is starting to be felt.  The Democratic Party is on political life support, with no apparent way of getting off it.

November 8, 2021