Eh you're probably right there. Still, I do think we need an interim rep until the election. Someone to bring our local concerns to the federal level.

I just hope what you say is true that an important enough issue will be picked up. Heck a nice rule would be any other Virginia rep can help you out until you have a rep again. I think most do out of kindness but still something on paper would be nice

Maybe have their lead aid run the ship until elections Happen or people in charge of various departments in the state like we do with the presidency. I dunno, I'm not a policy maker

Yeah no representation for a month-ish kinda sucks. I wonder if we should be taxed for that time period on a state level because of the whole taxation without representation (that last sentence was a joke and should not be taken seriously).

Maybe a succession thing like the president has. At least until an election can be planned at a minimum. I mean does district 4 even have a representative come January?

Yeah i know they'll freak out but a guy can dream. We were able to do the 2020 census over the internet so I hope one day we can do this the same. It's crazy this is still a pen and paper operation.

Which is why I think a deputy representative or vice representative would alleviate those issues. Or online voting but sadly that won't happen in my time on earth

I did say everyone but the person this main post was about. So I'm not counting Morrissey. He's the reason I went to vote, I wanted anyone but him to be the nominee.

I was trying to explore it more and talk about it more. I was getting ready to concede because it was looking like I was going to be 100% wrong

You wouldn't be calling it easier if you saw the lines to park and get to the voting stations, vote and get out of there. It took me more than an hour to get that all done and that's not even taking into account my commute there and I went outside peak hours. Plus i was lucky and had a car, could you imagine those who had to take the bus, or request off work, or those who couldn't get off work and had to go during peak times and wait in those lines, or those with kids?

I read up on every candidate before I go vote. Most read very very similarly.

I didn't think I'd have to explain myself. I thought we were having a friendly conversation.

I agree, we should not have to disenfranchise folks but just not how it was said. You made it seem like that was my intention but it was not. My point I was trying to Make was that both parties held primaries allow voters to pick their people. They voted then they put one person from each of the 2 big parties and the independents on the ballot for people to vote for. The Democrat got over 60% of the vote, won then passed away. I was trying to say ok well since a majority voted for the Democrat candidate, shouldn't we just hold a Democrat election? We don't even do that when the president passes, it goes to the VP but if the VP passes too, it goes to the speaker of the house who the vast majority of Americans did not even vote for (since it's a Rep from a state chosen by other Reps). So why don't we do that when a representative passes? Why don't we have a deputy representative or something to take over in case the worst happens?

On the earlier earlier point about people voting for the people and not the party that's not entirely true. 2020 showed us that people didn't JUST vote for Biden because he was Biden. I saw a lot of reasons from "he's not Trump" to "he's not republican ".

Also, the current people running for the Democrat seats are all very similar with all similar views (other than the topic of the main post) that it just felt like I was voting for the same person but with different names.

See other than your last paragraph, your whole reply was the conversation I was looking for. Then we would go back and forth and exchange ideas and I would realize I was wrong or I would realize maybe a few ideas of mine are misguided are something.

But no, that didn't happen. That's how new ideas are formed. You take different people with different view points and experiences and put them together to come up with solutions to satisfy everyone or that area ethically correct... or both.

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Typo my bad. Was typing with one good eyeball at the moment

And if you read, I was saying what I thought then within two comments got my ideas called simple and accused of playing into partisan politics when I was trying to just exchange ideas.

Which goes to show me that discussions have gone from exchange of ideas to attacking the character of the argument and individual. If we just want to pat each other on the back and call each other right so we feel good about ourselves fine but dang, I've gotten more out of conversations where I exchange ideas and sources from Facebook conversions which is sad that reddit is going this way.

Not necessarily. The venn diagrams may overlap but they don't completely envelop each other

I'm trying to be civil and have a conversation is all. When you start just straight up dismissing ideas, it shows the lack of character in the individual talking. I don't even consider myself apart of any political party, if anything I'm independent because both parties have directly done things to impact my friends and family negatively and truth be told we need more than a two party system.

Dude I'm just a normal guy. I was just stating my opinion and you've taken it to this. I'm probably wrong but I was trying to have a discussion and not have my opinions called "simple".

It's not really a solution, it's just an opinion. I'm not in power, I have no pull, all I have are my opinions that can't do anything anyways.

I would argue true but they had primaries to pick each individual to be the representative for the election of this district. To me, it just put all people in the district without a rep until Feb when the next election is held

I get that but in a race of dems v Republicans, democrats won and within a month of his death. If the politician was republican and it happened to them I would want the same thing. Which is a special election for that party only

I'm just mad that I had to vote twice within a month in my district. And that the Republicans get to join in it again even though they lost. I don't get it

When i went to vote today, I saw him and didn't know it was him. He was wearing a "Vote for Joe" shirt and I almost told him to my face i don't support kid diddlers. If it wasn't for my wife telling me that was him I would have but I think he saw the disgusted look on my face and went to the lady next to me to get her support.