(FOX).Voters opted to end one-party rule in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday when they exchanged an all-Democratic City Council for one that includes two Republican-endorsed independents among its incoming members.
It is always dangerous to cite one election as the beginning of a trend. But, given that recent events have left the national government just one Senate seat shy of being an all-Democratic Party operation, an election outcome like this — in a bastion of liberalism just across the river from Washington, D.C., — indicates the dangers of becoming to secure or too smug regarding the demise of your opposition.
Election turnout was light – just about 15 percent of registered voters turned out. But that was enough –- in a race where ten candidates competed “at-large” for six seats on the city’s governing body — for the GOP to take two seats away from the Democrats, who have ruled the city without input from Republicans ever since 2003. Is this the beginning of a trend? It’s too soon to tell, but it does show there’s some life left in the GOP after all.
WHAT CAN REPUBLICANS LEARN FROM LAST NIGHT ELECTION?
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