Originally Posted by Eyedr

Failure to learn history makes it more likely you will repeat it. Look at the last presidential elections...Virginia is turning more and more blue, and now we have a democratic governor.

The rest of the state will NOT carry the DC suburbs with a staunch conservative. Cuchinelli was close, if he (or another candidate) was a little less far right he may have pulled more of the conservative democrat votes. This is the reality of the situation.