[kabar]

I found this whole article to be rather silly. If the Democrats really want to tar-and-feather Allen as a Confederate sympathizer, and make that into a campaign issue, they don't need to go digging through school yearbooks. They could just reference the Confederate Heritage Month he enacted while Governor. It's not like it's a secret or some grand revelation or something.

Agree, but this election is not just about Virginia in 2006, but also, about 2008 nationally. The demographics of Virginia are also changing with the very liberal and growing Northern Virginia region pitted against the rest of the mostly rural and more conservative part of the state. Fairfax County went for Kerry in 2004 and the election of Kaine was primarily due to the vote in Northern Virginia. It didn't help that the GOP selected a lousy candidate.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Fairfax County went for Kerry in 2004 and the election of Kaine was primarily due to the vote in Northern Virginia. It didn't help that the GOP selected a lousy candidate."

We had an excellent candidate, he just ran a truly horrible campaign.