Popular to whom ? Given that Gillespie overwhelmingly carried the bulk of the state and there's enough Dem chicanery in NoVA to alter the outcome, Warner could hardly be described as "popular."
Everytime I see anything about the Gillespie-Warner race, I have to bring up the real reason for the loss.
SARVIS - he took Democrat money, ran a campaign specifically to pull voters from the Republican campaign, and did it the was he was told by Democrat operatives.
Sarvis is a scummy loss of a human being who threw the race for his buyers because he is a bought man.