Good point, VA voters can never be counted on, as they showed so well in 2008.
FYI, there are two Virginias (and I don’t mean Virginia/West Virginia). Northern VA is a suburb of DC, a government employee mecca. It is where people from other places move to when they line up a government or government-related job. Unfortunately, recently it is where liberals who USED to move to Maryland are increasingly settling. It is the most populous part of the Commonwealth, and with the out of control growth of goverment will only get worse.
What “VA Voters .. showed so well in 2008” is that their vote can be diluted by aggressive ACORN enrollment of blue state students attending VA colleges and the immigrants from points north.