In a 2019 story in the Virginia Mercury, Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, called Virginia’s primaries in general “something of a free-for-all,” where parties have the power.
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‘Virginia has made it a lot easier’: Early voting underway through June 17 (RVA HUB)
“That’s a big change from the way it used to be in Virginia,” said Stephen Farnsworth, political science professor and director of the University of Mary Washington Center for Leadership and Media Studies. “Where most of the votes were cast on election day, that’s just no longer the case here.”
‘Virginia has made it a lot easier’: Early voting underway through June 17 (RVA HUB)
Reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia face primary challenges (The Washington Post; NBC 4; U.S. News; WTVR; WMAL)
What Kind of Republican Is Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin? (Governing Magazine)
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs at University of Mary Washington, said much of Youngkin’s agenda — tax cuts, calls for abortion restrictions, and putting pressure on public schools — falls in line with mainstream Republicanism.
But he added it’s somewhat challenging to define what’s mainstream because the Republican Party itself is undergoing an identity crisis.
“The Republican Party of today is not the Republican Party of 2015,” he said. “One of the decisions that the party will have to make going forward is whether the adjustment to Trump’s vision is retained or discarded.”
What Kind of Republican Is Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin? (governing.com) What kind of Republican is Gov. Youngkin? Here’s what political experts had to say. (Daily Press)
“The Republican Party of today is not the Republican Party of 2015,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. “One of the decisions that the party will have to make going forward is whether the adjustment to Trump’s vision is retained or discarded.”
What kind of Republican is Gov. Youngkin? Here’s what political experts had to say. (Daily Press) In N. Virginia, endorsement primaries point to increasingly politicized school boards (Washington Post)
“Even offices that are billed as nonpartisan like school boards are becoming more partisan across the commonwealth,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. “What Fairfax is doing is recognizing the partisan reality of school board races.”
In N. Virginia, endorsement primaries point to increasingly politicized school boards (The Washington Post) 