That is the past, in 2005 when VA was still a red state. The Dems are better organized, more zealous, and more numerous. They will steal this election. Once Herring nosed in front, it was all over.
More purple than red. We'd already had four years of St. Mark the Warner, and the 2005 election is what brought the other Obama sycophant Tim Kaine to the governor's seat.