And it is a clean sweep for Republicans in Virginia. The Politico reports all statewide Republican candidates won office.
Republicans swept Virginia’s statewide elections Tuesday, with gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell leading his party’s ticket to victory up and down the ballot and scoring an early win for the national GOP.
McDonnell, a former state attorney general, won a decisive victory over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds, bringing an end to eight years of Democratic control of the governor’s office in Richmond and breaking a series of disappointing elections for Virginia Republicans.
Just a year after President Obama won the state’s electoral votes for the Democratic Party for the first time in 44 years, McDonnell, incumbent Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Republican attorney general candidate Ken Cuccinelli were elected easily over their Democratic opponents.
Network exit polls showed a starkly different electorate went to the polls in Virginia Tuesday than the one that elected President Barack Obama in 2008. The proportion of voters under 30 dropped from 21 percent in 2008 to 10 percent today. Just 15 percent of the Virginia electorate was black this year, compared with 20 percent last year.
I think that shows real enthusiasm. Real passion. And a very, very big problem for Washington. Especially for Democrats – but not exclusively. Storm warnings for the entrenched are out.
Hope that the Dems sit up and take note that the voters are really upset with what they are doing.
Living in Loudoun county, I have never been subjected to as vile and nasty a campaign against opponents as the Dems ran this year. I’m *so* glad they lost.