I’m from Virginia’s 11th congressional district and as expected, the House incumbent and Senate incumbent, both Democrats, succeeded in the polls, not much to say there. Northern Virginia is rather blue area, or rather, a blue bubble. Not surprising. We even nicknamed ourselves NoVA, like we’re somehow a different state than the rest of Virginia. But what’s interesting is VA’s 10th district, the red speck in VA’s blue top corner for 60 years has finally gone blue. After this election, Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock will be replaced by Democrat, Jennifer Wexton. And the NoVA community definitely seemed pleased:

So what does this mean? Being one of the wealthiest districts in the state, the 10th district finally put their foot down on Comstock’s stances. The summary of her stances: pro-life, pro-guns, repealing of ACA, income tax decrease, military spending increase.

But I believe her downfall was her stance on net neutrality. People were quite infuriated when she took the stance against net neutrality. Given that the 10th district population is made of wealthy, college educated, degree-holding people. I don’t think taking away or restricting access to knowledge and information puts them in a good mood.

I think that this shows that voting does matter, and there are people, such as those in the 10th district, who were unhappy and wanted to change it.

*Of course, I’m no political scientist here, so what I speculate doesn’t hold much value. I’m open to criticism though. 🙂