Virginia

I wrote yesterday about how Donald Trump had failed to deliver the vote in Kentucky this week after campaigning there for the governor. Similarly, he campaigned for the Republican Party in Virginia where his presence turned out to be poisonous after Democrats gained control of the state legislature.

Once Republicans are out of majority control in January, Virginia will therefore almost certainly be the necessary thirty-eighth state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution (details here).

This nicely demonstrates how smaller, off-year elections can nonetheless have major national implications. That's why it's necessary to vote in every single election, not just the presidential year. Elections have consequences — every single one of them.