McCain seems to be having some other staffing problems down there- with other chairmen forced to resign for racist comments. McCain's own brother called Arlington and Alexandria communist counties!

Ugh. Virginia native son here. Jeff Frederick is a complete jack-ass.

The Republicans are way too much Frederick and Gilmore, far too little Tom Davis and Tom Rust. Pragmatism and good governance is being rapidly replaced by anti-tax and pro-life demagogues. Add in the demographics of a changing population and you can see how the Republican strength is consistently eroding in Virginia.

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No -the race was close- and he was ahead– until the swift boat campaign. He decided to ignore it– which was a big mistake- that even he admits to now.

Also there were some shenanigans involving voting machines in Ohio that we remember well (courtesy of Ken Blackwell) –though I concede the electoral votes would not have been enough to give the race to Kerry.

Also, the RNC scared the pants off voters on the terrorism issue- and it worked.

Obama's not Kerry in this analogy, but McCain might be if he doesn't get on a positive overarching narrative, quickly.

Kerry lost because he wouldn't fight back. Should Obama do the same?

Otherwise it will be Mourning in America, most likely.

So be it. As with the economy, wherewith I am accepting of and resigned already to a recession and even our own version of 1990s-Japanese deflation from a change in public mood as well as household financial situations (an end to credit card debt that has continued to support household discretionary and essential spending to this day), I pretty much see Obama's election as accomplished fact given where we are in the election now (the end game, truly) and how plodding McCain has been and how dysfunctional the GOP has been. Any resentment and any Democratic-style demagoguery and slander will not change the outcome this late in the “game.”

Super D: “Northern Virginia” (southern DC metro located in Virginia, but far from that state's conservative and Religious Right stereotype much of the time — a place where cars have rainbow steering wheel covers and such, the antithesis of the Religious Right stereotype, in fact) is simply growing so much it is starting to dominate Virginia politics, and will only do so more as Washington grows that much greater under an Obama pro-Democratic administration.

Dignity? Integrity? In short supply with the GOP.
sad, just sad it has come down to this.