Unfortunately, here in VA, it's simply fashionable to vote for whomever has the (D) after his name when it comes to statewide elections. Voters know McAuliffe is corrupt as a day is long, but the invasion into the northern part of the state has killed the rest of it, and we have too many people who vote party ID. McAuliffe has had massive amounts of propaganda help from the Washington Post and other big media, and of course the scandal (that's not really a scandal) that's roped in Gov. Bob McDonnell.
I don't really think it is that simplistic.
Exactly. I was a Virginian for decades and still have friends there. It is a widespread attitude (not among friends) of “I’m voting for the Dem I don’t care who it is”. I’ve seen about a half dozen polls and Cuccinelli can’t get above 38%. That is horrifying.
The DC suburbs just overwhelm the whole state; the little guys in Radford etc. can’t do a thing about it. It might have been that way in LA too without Katrina reducing the size of New Orleans. VA is also, as another poster said last week, “stuck on stupid.”