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Three excellent pieces. Keep it up, Free Press -- you are ROCKING it!

Two comments on Tuesday's election results. First, though it's being widely reported that Democrats notched three big wins, did the Beshear/Kentucky election result really come as a surprise to anyone? The guy's approval rating was 68% in pre-election polling. Although the mainstream media made the contest sound like a horse race that could go either way, the reality is no incumbent with a 68% approval rating loses an election. It just doesn't happen. Dems notched notable wins in Virginia and Ohio, but it's not like they pulled one out of their hats in Kentucky.

Second, as a resident of northern Virginia, I must have endured 600 TV commercials in the months leading up to election day. Approximately 580 of these ads were about abortion. A few of them noted Youngkin's proposed 15-week period, but most deliberately did not, and went right for the GOP candidate's jugular as one who supports a total ban, even in cases of child rape.

About 400 commercials in, I asked my two twenty-something daughters if they knew the details of Youngkin's proposed "ban." They did not, and assumed it was 6 weeks or less. It's not clear that Virginia voters knew the details of Younkin's proposal, or that most GOP candidates for the state legislature had signed on to it.

Time will tell if the 15-week proposal might get a better reception nationally, but it seemed to have been drowned out by the Democrats' constant, and much louder, doomsday ad campaign.

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