All eyes are on the Old Dominion tonight, as the race between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and businessman Glenn Youngkin comes down to the wire. My colleague Jessica Taylor has written a definitive account of how this blue state has become the site of a statewide Toss Up contest.
After a winner is declared comes the next phase of the election cycle: interpreting “what it all means.” To be sure, this is just one race taking place at one specific moment in time, so we have to be careful about reading too much into it. However, as the first competitive election in the post-Trump era, the outcome here will help set some guideposts for 2022. Here are three of them: CONTINUED
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