[Dane]

Then why did the GOP actually gain a seat in the VA big 3(Lt. Gov. and Atty. Gen.)

[commonguymd]

It will be a net gain in VA - and the news does a good job of telling the real story in the Tidewater area. Kilgore ran a bad campaign period. Childish and many felt it was amateur hour. Through in a very popular Mark Warner, the current Governor, campaigning for Kain and the rest is history. Even so, Kilgore had a shot and blew it. My advice is never hire his campaign advisers.

[cricket]

Then why did the GOP actually gain a seat in the VA big 3(Lt. Gov. and Atty. Gen.)

Right. . .

. . .the Dems are as gracious when they win as they are in defeat.

[gieriscm]

Then why did the GOP actually gain a seat in the VA big 3(Lt. Gov. and Atty. Gen.)

AG is still undecided. It's so close that there will be an automatic recount. I'm praying for McDonnell.

I agree that this race was Kilgore's to lose, and he threw it away with both hands. Even if every voter who cast a ballot for Russ Potts, or who had done a write-in, had gone for Kilgore, he still would have lost.

The RNC has already taken note of who ran his campaign. I don't expect them to have much of a future in politics.

[rushmom]

I agree. Kilgore lost because of Kilgore.

[Non-Sequitur]

Then why did the GOP actually gain a seat in the VA big 3(Lt. Gov. and Atty. Gen.)

I believe that the GOP won the Attorney General's race by less than 1/10 of one percentage point, and the Lieutenant General's race by just over one percentage point. Hardly a ringing endorsement of the GOP ticket, in a state that Bush carried in 2004 by a considerable margin.

[HostileTerritory]

If a liberal Hillary-clone from NoVa like Leslie Byrne had won the LG's office in Virginia, that would have been a sign of the apocalypse.

She should have lost by as much as Kerry did.