Data obtained by 8News shows that voter registration in Virginia is on the rise after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for President and Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president.
“Particularly Democrats are excited that there is a new face to the party, a new candidate that doesn’t have the age baggage that Joe Biden had,” 8News Political Analyst, Rich Meagher explained.
Data from the Virginia Department of Elections shows that on Monday and Tuesday (7/22 and 7/23), the first two full days of Harris’s campaign, 4,899 Virginians registered to vote, a 38.5% increase over the same time the week before.
Dems haven’t been this excited since 2008
Other than Bernie running, Dems haven’t had a reason to be excited. Hillary, while skilled, makes a lot of folks unhappy for all sorts of reasons. Biden could have done so much worse, but he wasn’t the bastion of progress many people wanted, and we didn’t know before the election how well he would actually do. For this election, Biden just didn’t seem like he would last 4 more years, and he didn’t seem like he had the fight left to take on Trump. Harris represents a real chance at some progress, and certainly staving off the return to the good ol’ times that the Right is hellbent on achieving.
Yeah I did forget about 2008. That’s the only other example I’m aware of though.
Oh man, what about all that Dukakis buzz.
He was like a goddamn rock star, what with all the groupies, the sold out rallies with women lifting their tops for him, the crowd surfing, etc.
I hadn’t started to think about politics yet then, I wasn’t very aware.
Yeah, I’m just assuming here. I was 10.