Wednesday Reads: Election Results
Posted: November 3, 2021 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |22 Comments

Remember to turn your clocks back this weekend…
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At the time of writing this, the results were not in, so here are a few tweets:
Racism is like cocaine. It sells itself.
— Barack | Hillary | Joe | Kamala Democrat (@Morneque) November 3, 2021
Youngkin Defeats McAullife https://t.co/FK0O4XLZ8K
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 3, 2021
The story of tonight?
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 3, 2021
McAuliffe is running a bit ahead of Biden among non-white voters in Virginia. He's behind a few with white men. But he's getting clobbered by white women. https://t.co/2JJq8F4MS8
To everyone who was tired, drained, overextended or just “over” politics after 2020, wake the f—- up. We have a country to work to save and it’s going to take every single one of us. And yes, it’s going to be hard. Get up.
— Tara McGowan (@taraemcg) November 3, 2021
Please @MSNBC @CNN Please stop saying education is an issue. It’s demeaning to teachers EVERYWHERE. This wan’t education concerns. This was straight up racism. White people don’t want to hear they’re racist or that racism exists. Youngkin played this & media was his instrument
— Kriss (@KMC4wauk) November 3, 2021
The GOP ran a master class on race based identity politics.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) November 3, 2021
Manchin and Sinema owe the state of VA an apology for thinking their shit don’t stink and not governing.
Manchin’s stunt yesterday reinforced the above.
Dems always put black issues on back burner & got burned.
Boston is projected to elect Democrat Michelle Wu as the first Asian American mayor in the city’s history, the Associated Press projects. Wu, 36, has served on the Boston City Council since 2014 and was president of the council from 2016 to 2018. https://t.co/6LUQiLupbn pic.twitter.com/eKzVsqF38m
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 3, 2021
This thread here by Mona Eltahawy:
White women voters are footsoldiers of white supremacist patriarchy. In their majority they voted GOP long before Trump because they benefit from white supremacy and they undergird right-wing populism – as voters and candidates. #Election2021 https://t.co/7dXlHeHrL9
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) November 3, 2021
Whoever wins today, Dems will have to reckon with this: They are facing a lopsided communications imbalance, one that enablied Youngkin and his allies to employ a massive propaganda apparatus to pump right wing sewage at the GOP base for months. My latest:https://t.co/dh0mYAagvH
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 2, 2021
Looks like what happened down ballot in 2020: a Democratic wipe out. If preelection polls strongly suggested a different result, Ds should request recounts. But I already know they won’t do that. Because they never do & have run around overstating the security of US elections. pic.twitter.com/w7jHLePruA
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 3, 2021
The victory makes Southlake, Texas, one of the first places in the country where candidates running on an anti-critical race theory platform have taken a school board majority. https://t.co/xPpwukKstZ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 3, 2021
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Meanwhile, at the World Series:
It took the Atlanta Braves 111 games just to get over .500 this season. Now they are World Series champions.
— Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) November 3, 2021
What a story.https://t.co/up6sAttAB7
In other news:
An Increasing Number of Women in the UK Have Reported Being Pricked or "Spiked" With Drug-Filled Syringe Needles While Out in Public. Activists Are Calling For Safer Nightclub Conditions – BUST https://t.co/7GFjIXqfYR
— JJ Lopez Walts 🤌🏼 (@MinkoffMinx) November 2, 2021
We undertook an analysis that's never been done before. Not even by the EPA. @ProPublica mapped the spread of toxic air pollution from industrial facilities across every neighborhood in the country—and identified 1000+ hotspots of cancer-causing air. https://t.co/RqExqiVWFv
— Ava Kofman (@AvaKofman) November 2, 2021
Causes of death, London, 1632. 11 people died of grief, 1 of vomiting, 470 of teeth, 12 of French Pox. pic.twitter.com/zYTcIxARsx
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 2, 2021
This article explains a lot of the weirder terms… Fascinating, sad, and makes me glad to be alive today. Note: don't post this to Facebook, they'll believe the nonsensical ones like "Planet" are real…https://t.co/o73IZ5fbqf
— #ClimateActionNow🌡️Vulcan🖖Writer✒Mom💁 (@EvaChanda) November 2, 2021
Adding to the body of data for booster shot effectiveness, a new @TheLancet report of over 728,000 people w/ 3 shots vs >728,000 matched controls (2 shots):
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 30, 2021
93% reduction of Covid hospitalizationshttps://t.co/cVpANpnkHs pic.twitter.com/LlBwWi2Vtw
I will end with this:
Women in Virginia are already sending messages planning for loss of abortion access.
— Jessica Lee (@JessLeeEsq) November 3, 2021
This is how fast it happens.
It’s an open thread.
Well, it is what it is:
Ugh…
BB, this may interest you:
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-flemish-people-dutch.html
It deals with language…
“How does a scientist find out how people adjust their language use when they are together? People start talking differently with someone who doesn’t speak their language or is hard of hearing, but how do you measure that? Prof. Marc Swerts, together with a colleague from Antwerp and his very creative students, devised a game method that shows that Flemish people are more likely to adapt to Dutch people than the other way around. This was shown by analyses of word choice as well as pronunciation. Their research was recently published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Communication. An interview with Prof. Marc Swerts about his study into linguistic and non-verbal adaptation behavior.”
Interesting. Thanks.
I can’t see how that could stand up in court. It’s ridiculous. People could lie anyway.
Wonder how they’ll categorize the students’ opinions. This could be amusing but it’s not because of the Republican Big Brother attitude.
Hi!
Enjoy some nice music! It’s going to be a rough year or so.
Can’t make it easy for people to vote! They might vote the Republicans out.
I find the election details confusing.
At 9:36 pm last night Sahil Kapur tweeted that McAuliffe “is getting clobbered by white women” and at 11:26 pm Mona Eltahawy says, “white women are footsoldiers of white supremacist patriarchy”.
However, Grio.com this morning states that overall, “White men and White women voted for Youngkin at 66% and 57% respectively, while Black men and Black women voted at 87% and 86% respectively for McAuliffe”.
The Washington Post polling data indicates that 62% of white women college graduates voted for McAuliffe while just 45% of white men college graduates voted for McAuliffe. Among white non-college graduates, the votes swung heavily for Youngkin, 78% of white male non-college grads and 75% of white female non-college grads.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2021/exit-polls-virginia-governor/
Didn’t McAuliffe get “clobbered” by white men, regardless of level of education, and get clobbered by white women with less education? Is it just assumed that of course white men will vote for Youngkin, no need to remark on that? It would have been lovely if everyone had approached the 86-87% support for McAuliffe that Black voters had delivered.
Exactly. Two minds with but a single thought. Except you’re faster at typing 😀 .
Very well stated!!! But in some ways it is puzzling. Many white women without college educations are in the middle to lower economic classes — which the Democrats help. Many of them likely got the child tax credits — which Republicans did not vote for.
Sure, some are conservative evangelicals, but not all and probably not 75%. Why isn’t our message getting through to more of them?
Women have to be blamed for everything.
All of the above!
“White women, non-college” is another way of saying “evangelicals” without having to say evangelicals. The frame gets to blame women and avoid any icky references to religion.
Meanwhile, there *is* a whole religion devoted to white patriarchy. With men in it! (But they voted hugely for trumpists all along, so how interesting is that?) So let’s blame racist laydeez. W00T. Misogyny for the win.
(Seriously? It’s a problem to shoot at the wrong thing. It means You Do Not Hit The Target. Beating up women is just going to confirm that their only meal ticket is white patriarchy.)
(Not saying you’re doing it, JJ. Screaming at the framing, which I’m seeing *everywhere*.)
Good article. Important points that it’s not really about voters switching (including white women…). It’s about voters not being fired up to vote. I.e. turnout. The Dems had a huge deficit there.
Because they don’t *feel* like the Dems have delivered enough. The fact that Dems *have* delivered a lot isn’t the point. As she points out, the feeling is: “There’s been no movement on voting rights or reproductive rights or climate change. Biden’s even failing on his biggest issue, major economic reforms to make life easier and fairer for workers. The Build Back Better plan languishes in a state of purgatory, kept there by centrist Democratic senators who clearly plan to keep coming up with excuses to put off the vote until it’s killed off forever.” (She’s wrong about the lack of movement on reproductive rights. There’s been lots. All in the wrong direction.)
Anyway, she does put her finger on the malaise.
This reminds me of when Scott Brown won the special election for Senate in MA while Obama wasn’t paying attention.
That was a nightmare.