Over the course of my lifetime, and im old. I was born in 1973. I know, right . Over the course of my entire life, every time a new president has been elected to the white house, the other party wins the Virginia Governors race the following year. Virginia holds its governors races in off years, in odd years, and so theres always a governors race after a president ial election. The year after. And it happens every single time that whoever the new president is who just won the presidency, the other party then wins in virginia, every single time. When i was 3, jimmy carter won the presidency in 1976, a democrat, obviously, then in 1977, a republican wins for Virginia Governor. Then in 1980, it was Ronald Reagan who won the presidency, obviously a republican, and so in 1981 it was a democrat who won the Virginia Governor the following year. It happens every time. When george h. W. Bush won in 88 as a republican, democrat won as governor in virginia. When clinton won, Virginia Governors ra