re: #85 HappyWarrior

There is definitely that factor. Kerry completely ignored my state is what my point is on a personal level. I don’t think Kerry would have won Virginia but I think he could have done better than Gore in 2000 if he had focused on it. Virginia’s trend from red state to the purple state it is today began in 2001 when we elected Mark Warner.

And its gone into reverse in the last couple years. I do not expect Obama to win the Old Dominion again in 2012. I think that Virginia will vote gOP even if Sarah Palin was nominated (a willingness to vote for Palin not being a good thing, IMO).