In the end?
Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam is gonna keep his job….
So will the Democratic Attorney General….
The black face stuff for decades ago are stupid and embarrassing things for people to see in a state below the Mason-Dixon Line….
But polling is evolving as a window on the people of state….
In the beginning of the week the story in the media was he’s gotta go…
National politicians in his own Democratic Party echoed the same….
But?
They don’t vote in the state…
Today we have a new poll with a 50/50 split on if Northan should quit….
BUT?
This is the clincher for Northam’s survival….
Black want their governor to STAY by a 20% margin….
One would assume there are several common sense reason’s for this…
The most direct being….
Their Democratic Lt.Governor Fairfax has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women in the past….(The Washington Post poll has no numbers on if Fairfax should stay or go…He maybe the subject of a impeachment effort…But THAT maybe uncertain if blacks come out against such a action so soon)
That’s not a words miscue…
That’s possible anti-woman actions….
Voters know that if their Governor was to resign?
Then their Attorney General Herring should go also….
With all three gone?
The Governorship drops to the head of the state legislature ….
He’s a Republican…
Virginians are deadlocked over whether Gov. Ralph Northam (D) should step down after the emergence of a photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page depicting people in blackface and Ku Klux Klan garb, with African Americans saying by a wide margin that he should remain in office despite the offensive image, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.
The poll, conducted Wednesday through Friday, finds residents split over Northam’s fate, with 47 percent wanting him to step down and 47 percent saying he should stay on. Northam counts higher support among black residents — who say he should remain in office by a margin of 58 percent to 37 percent — than among whites, who are more evenly divided….