“The early voting numbers suggest a significantly higher trajectory,” says Stephen Farnsworth, director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington. “Based on the number of candidates running in the Virginia mid-term this year as well as polls, including the Mary Washington statewide survey that shows a high level of voter interest in 2019, all indications are that this Virginia midterm will have much higher turnout than four years ago.”
Stephen J. Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Political Science professor, focusing on the mass media, the presidency and Virginia politics
