president s job approval rating dropping to 42% and the impact that might have on tuesday s election in virginia? jonathan, i m thrilled to be with you this morning. look, i m nervous about the race and less about joe biden than as this is how virginia races go. what we see in virginia, you have a presidential race and the turnout in virginia is about 70% and then the next year is a governor s race and the turnout drops down to 47 or 45 or 42. that drop in turnout always has a little bit more of a negative effect on democrats than it does on republicans. our voters are good in presidential years and sometimes tend to back off in