LMC TAKE ON VIRGINIA ELECTIONS

I went out on a limb and predicted Kilgore in a squeaker for governor, and Bolling and McDonnell by comfortable margins. The result was Kaine by a comfortable margin and Bolling and McDonnell by squeakers. (Fortunately for my family, I do not make my living by making these kinds of predictions.) I agree with Steve-O that Kilgore ran a crappy campaign. The reports this morning indicate that voter turnout barely topped 43 percent which means a good chunk of the Republican base stayed home. Kilgore was unnecessarily squishy on taxes and his ad attacking Kaine on the death penalty was a self-inflicted wound when a good chunk of the base is pro-life and ambiguous on the death penalty at best. Today, the Virginia GOP needs to be gracious to the libs on Kaine's victory, remember what won elections for them in the past, and work on expanding the base and getting it to the polls in the future.