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Good happen.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias. Joining me today is Darland and Andrew Procop. We did a couple weeks

ago. I thought the three of us a great podcast looking ahead to the Virginia gubernatory elections.

Ralph Northam was flailing. MS-13 attacks were boosting a Gillespie narrowing the polls.

As recently as a Tuesday's episode, I was on the air, not making any strong predictions

about Northam and Gillespie, but saying that in practice, even if Democrats won, not that

much would change on a policy level because there were Republican majority in the House of

delegates was just insurmountably large. That turns out not to be true. Pending a couple

recounts, Democrats might be tied in the House of delegates. There might be down one or

two seats. They're definitely going to be down one seat in the state Senate. So it'll

be hard to pass legislation. I don't think Virginia is going to become like a huge engine

of progressive policymaking, but it's close enough that a little shenanigans arm twisting

and things can get bills through. So basically Democrats did a lot better than people were

expecting. Gaines and the House of delegates were a particularly big deal for Democrats

because they started. They were way down. They only had 34 seats compared to Republicans,

66 seats in the 100 seat chamber. They've gone all the way up to at least 49 seats and

they might pending the outcome of I think three races that still look extremely close. They

might get enough to have it be a 50-50 tie where they would have to do some sort of power

sharing agreement. And this is a big deal and this did come as a big surprise because

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