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spooky3

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1. Thanks. Reporter was a bit sloppy though:

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 03:18 PM

Thursday

Dems currently hold 6 seats. So if they get to 10, that would give them four more, not five more. No one predicts they could pick up all 11 seats.

Yes, “Election Day” is April 21, but early voting has been open a long time and many people have already voted. So it’s not really “ahead of” a vote.

GMU leans right (think Scalia law school) so I suspect the outcome will be more positive than the author and the poll appear to suggest. But we are taking nothing for granted.

(This poll was taken in March and has been reported in other media outlets for several weeks so the reporter(s) are a bit behind.)

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