“That would be a poor choice. Gilmore couldn’t carry his own state. He ran for Senator against Mark Warner in 2008”
He had all the headwinds against him that year. Mark Warner was wildly popular and was running on the coattails of Obama in 2008, the Year of Obamalove. Christ himself wouldn’t have won that year.
33.7%. That was an absolutely ghastly performance that should’ve ended his electoral career. That he didn’t get in the mid to high 40s in that race is one thing (with McQueeg at the top of the ticket, who wasn’t even attempting to win, he got 46%), but that was scarcely more then that hapless Black Minister, Maurice Dawkins, the Republicans put up against Chuck Robb in 1988 received when Sen. Paul Trible ran away like a coward (he got under 30%).
I’ll say again, that was the worst % of the vote a first tier candidate for the U.S. Senate received in the Commonwealth since they instituted the popular vote. Why would someone with that distinction get it in their head that they’re deserving to be President ? That’s mental illness.