Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) has new visuals illustrating the aging voter population in the commonwealth.
Here’s one of their graphs showing the age difference from 2022 (purple line) and 2012 (green line)-
An older population will likely be more interested in Virginia candidates who stand for conservative positions, which should be a net gain for Republicans; today’s Democrat Party is nothing like the anti-Communist party John Kennedy represented.
Republican Glenn Youngkin won the gubernatorial election last year mostly because Democrat Terry McAuliffe dropped the ball on education. But credit Youngkin for identifying that, picking up that ball, and running hard with it. Virginia’s aging electorate responded by saying we don’t want radical leftists teaching our children.
Virginia Democrats need to pay attention to this. Their party is increasingly being pushed farther and farther left by their young activists. Just yesterday on Capitol Hill, young Democrat House staffers staged a sit-in at a Democrat senator’s office over climate legislation. In Virginia’s General Assembly, House Democrats are obviously not getting the message. They replaced their party leader with a far leftist who joined the House in 2020. Here’s a clip of him acting like a fool on the House floor- Old Dominion Post on Twitter.
VPAP always does a great job with transferring data into easy-to-read graphs or charts. Here’s the link for their entire set of this new data- As Boomers Gray, Electorate Ages (vpap.org)
