The “unofficial” start to summer 2025 has arrived, and with it, Virginia’s campaign season with its national implications—it’s touted as a barometer for how the electorate feels about the party in power in Washington.
The state never has an “off year”—what pundits call election years without a federal or statewide elections. Every year in Virginia features elections that could change the course of the commonwealth or even the country.
So, the next few months will be full of young campaign volunteers showing up at Virginians’ doors asking (politely) if they have yet made a choice in the upcoming election, full of glossy mailers extolling the virtues and sometimes the vices of one candidate or another, and full of stock-in-trade phrases from pollsters like “outsiders” and “outside the margin of error.”
Virginia is home to two nationally…
