“School board elections in Montgomery County and nationally are increasingly taking on partisan coloration, even if party labels are not used,” University of Mary Washington political science professor Stephen Farnsworth said.
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Trump rejecting Iran’s latest deal poses a ‘serious threat’: political analyst (CTV News Canada)
“It does seem that both the Iranians and the Americans are convinced that time is on their side,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. “Both sides are confident the other side will back down first.”
A 10-1 map turns Va. politics upside down — if voters agree (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
“There’s no doubt about it, if you slice Northern Virginia as thinly as they have done in these district maps, you’re going to create a lot of favorable environments for Democrats,” said Steve Farnsworth, director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
Virginia’s legislature hasn’t overridden a veto in more than a decade. Could that change Wednesday? (WVTF)
Professor Stephen Farnsworth with the University of Mary Washington said Youngkin may have miscalculated when he overturned the largely red and rural-backed effort. “The governor will face more severe threats of an overridden veto because of the way that he ignored Republican concerns,” Farnsworth told Radio IQ.
McGuire versus Good heats up in Fifth Congressional District (Cardinal News)
While there may not be very many policy differences between the two candidates, walking away from Trump may not have been the best strategy for Good, said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington.
Kansas Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot. The Surprising Outcome is Reverberating Across the United States (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
“What you see here, though, is that the Republican Party has put itself in a very difficult spot on the abortion question,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington. “It is much better to be a Republican running against abortion when abortion is legal than to be asking voters how to react once abortion is under the kind of threat that it’s under right now.”






