“This development is taking steps backwards. The issue of peace in the region will remain elusive,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Mary Washington.
Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, told Newsweek that incumbents are losing because “voters often want what they do not have, and that regularly leads to painful midterms for the president’s party.”
By Stephen J. Farnsworth
Virginia lawmakers approved a budget just in time for the new fiscal year, but the feuds among Democrats that triggered the lengthy political standoff in Richmond are not going away anytime soon.
“This really is a split decision. Neither side is very happy, but there is a huge relief that there appears to be a budget,” said Steve Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington.
The Virginia Mercury recently published an observation by Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington that “Spanberger appears to be caught between two audiences”: vying for Republican support by sacrificing a progressive agenda that won’t turn the boat over for centrist Democratic approval.
Stephen Farnsworth, a professor or political science at the University of Mary Washington, told the Advance that congressional midterms typically realize “an 18-seat swing in the House and a three- or four-seat swing in the Senate.”
