which is no surprise, given how crazy E. W. Jackson, the Republican nominee, is.
The Post endorsement is not unexpected.
But it is powerful.
The relevant text can be found here at the Northam campaign website.
Two paragraphs are key:
In the race for lieutenant governor, a sober, low-key and well-respected Democratic state senator, Ralph S. Northam of Norfolk, is pitted against E.W. Jackson of Chesapeake, a Republican pastor whose rhetorical overkill compels journalists to overemploy the euphemism “fiery.” Mr. Jackson has spent much of the campaign trying to persuade Virginians to disregard his toxic oratory and venomous views on practically everything.
Where Mr. Northam, a fiscal conservative, is measured and moderate — Republicans tried to persuade him to switch parties in 2009 — Mr. Jackson is drunk with his own words, incapable of resisting bombast and demagoguery. While Mr. Northam, a pediatric neurologist, speaks movingly of the children he has treated, Mr. Jackson blathers about his “love for all people” — even as he goes about savaging Democrats (agents of Satan), homosexuals (“very sick people”) and religious minorities (followers of “false” religions).