Virginia’s Expensive 10th District Race Could Swing Control of the State Senate (Style Weekly.com)
“The state has only two districts worth thinking about and that’s a testament to gerrymandering,” says Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington. “It is why so much money is flowing into the 10th.”
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Mary Washington, said that the House speaker’s resignation likely only puts off until December threats of a federal government shutdown or default. The Republican majority has been too divided to govern, and a new speaker is likely to have even greater problems running the fractious caucus than Boehner did, he said.
