Half of Virginians found out Tuesday that they are not allowed to have political representation in the U.S. House because Democrats in the state’s capital decided resistance to President Donald Trump was more important than the political concerns of their neighbors.
But the post-mortem assessment that Republicans and aligned organizations should have spent more, gotten involved more quickly, or been building a get-out-the-vote campaign well before the eve of the election season, which started March 6, was completely foreseeable.