In Virginia, in 1993 it was pretty amazing. I watched it happen.
I can tell you that a lot of Virginia government employees hate him because of job cuts and lots of ex-VA government employees love him for the buy-out that provided for a bunch of early retirements. I love the fact that Mrs. Allen doesn't hesitate to wear a nice fur coat - bless her heart. We'll never have an ideal candidate - the ideal would never run. We'll never reconcile the conflict inherent in the two factions of conservatism - social vs fiscal. In the meantime, I figure Allen will do.