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ItalianMineralWater t1_ja7ei85 wrote

Reply to How long do you think it is before RVA meets the same fate of cities like Austin? by piratestears

A few decades IF the growth rate was at a much faster trajectory than it is now. Look on Wikipedia at the decade-by-decade population for each city - Austin has really never lost people and has always been growing quickly. Portland has 2X the population it had in 1950.

RVA lost significant levels of people while Austin (and other comps like Nashville) grew at double digit rates for many decades at a time. We are just getting back to 1950s levels of population. Though this is only the city, not the MSA. The MSA overall has seen much stronger relative to the city but still not at all anything like Austin. Though - population growth alone is going to not show the effects of gentrification and displacement/replacement from lower to higher income residents. Still, we have room. The best comp for questions like this are not big boom cities - it’s places like Grand Rapids.

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Mad-Lad-of-RVA OP t1_ja740tv wrote

Reply to comment by ttd_76 in Del. Lamont Bagby receives Democratic nomination in SD-09 by Mad-Lad-of-RVA

I still think that Rodgers gets way too much credit for far too little substance. Everyone (at least in this subreddit) talks about how progressive she supposedly is, but her actual policy positions are far and few between, and the ones that do exist have little depth to them.

She just seems to be Progressive Vibes ™ : The Candidate. At best, she seems incompetent for entering races at a significant disadvantage, as you mention, and for not listing policy positions on her website, like any other damn candidate does.

For the record, I don't think that there was a good candidate in this race. Bagby takes far too much corporate money for my liking. Rodgers was a 'no' from me for the reasons I just described, and Adams is, well, Adams. She had the staffer scandal and, while she's no Bagby, she's taken a few corporate bucks here and there. Ultimately, I was one of the 464 to vote for Adams, but I wasn't particularly happy about it. She also comes across as incompetent, but at least she has tangible policy positions.

I'm really glad that this election is about as low-stakes as it gets since the districts will be redrawn in November, because hoo boy, I think we can do better.

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ttd_76 t1_ja6wbvw wrote

Reply to comment by Charlesinrichmond in Del. Lamont Bagby receives Democratic nomination in SD-09 by Mad-Lad-of-RVA

Rodgers never had a chance. She does has Sonjia Smith behind her, so with a full campaign she can be dangerous.

But that's why I question if what she is doing. This is twice now she has entered into campaigns with low name recognition, not much time to campaign and where she cannot win.

There are plenty of elections she can win, but she won't run in them. I could see how maybe she's just trying to get her name out there, but I don't know if It's working.

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