This will be a Take if McAuliffe loses, though the race is so clearly about the Loudoun County school board and SOL test scores, not anything happening in DC. McAuliffe begged in vain for something to get passed but most voters are bored and not watching.
https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1455242124815831043
If you're on Politics Twitter you're more politically engaged than most people and you got sick of the BBB/ BIF drama weeks ago. Imagine how normal people view it! It's impenetrable, they just want to pay less for gas.
I think this take comes from the memory of 2009-2010: Dems lose Scott Brown's seat and panic. But that was a race largely fought over whether voters wanted to break the Dem supermajority with an R vote. And Dems ended up passing their bill anyway.
That said, if I'm a lobbyist and want to kill BBB I absolutely start arguing on Wednesday that Virginia was a referendum on Biden and it's time to scrap BBB to focus on the deficit.
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