Well Bobert I beat you on calling the election and on Harry Byrds "Pay As You Go" 40 year machine (see "A Small but Significant" thread.

But if you'll recall it was the Virginian equivalent of the "Road to Nowhere" Route 58, along the VA NC boarder, that finally allowed Fairfax County to orient the vote to the Republicans. And the former Democrat Speaker of the House of Delegates begged the Republicans not to treat them as the Dems had done the Republicans in the previous 40 years.

At this point Fairfax would be the 44th State in population (if it was a State). And McDonnell was raised in Fairfax.

And the Obamamaniacs completely missed the fact that during the Tea Bag/Party rally in DC, three polls found that over 60% of the attendees were from VA and 63-67% of them had voted for Obama. Yet talking heads and MudCatters were calling them "Racist".

I was on a plane when I read that and smiled the whole trip...