Virginia Voters Could Change The World By Hank Silverberg If you want a good clue how the 2024 presidential race is going, then all you have to do is look to the Old Dominion. Virginia, which many people still look at as the old south, is actually a blue state these days, though many people don't realize it. The change came slowly. The election of Barak Obama in 2008 that included a win for him in Virginia, turned the state towards progressive politics. We have had Republican governors since then, but both U.S. senators have been Democrats since 2006, and Democrats have held an edge in the congressional delegation since 2008. We have had a split government on the state level since 2014, with Democrats holding either the governorship or a majority in one of the two General Assembly Chambers. The election of Glenn Youngkin in 2021 caught many Democratic leaders off guard. As I wrote last week, voter turnout may have been the key to Youngkin's victory. He used the cultur