re: Rich Baris polled Virginia, says Glen Youngkin will lose if he continues current strategy

Virginia has to be one of the worst states in the Country for essentially one metro area controlling the entire state. Only ones worse to me is Chicago controlling the rest of Illinois (most of Illinois is rural and red but it simply doesn't matter) and NYC controlling the rest of New York State (again most areas are red but it doesn't matter simply due to NYC's size).

NYC and Long Island really should be their own state. Sure it would be a guarantee of 2 Democrat Senators but that could be offset as then New York State would have a great chance of replacing 2 Democrat Senators with 2 Republican Senators.

Going back to Virginia though. Virginia is hopeless as DC and NOVA control the state and could largely care less about the rest of the state.

The western counties in Virginia on or west of I-81 should really be a part of West Virginia. The far far western counties (Marion, Abingdon, Bristol) in Virginia west of I-77 should really be a part of Kentucky.