Virginia may vote red on a national scale but it hadn't elected a republican governor in a long time. Its not as 'red ' of a state asyou seem to think. REmember democrats ran the show in that state for a very long time.
It is intellectually dishonest of you to discount his debate skills as a turning point in the debate. Go look it up on lexis nexis. Lots of people saw mary sue terry and geroge allen on stage and th ey liked the way he came off and switched sides. The clinton machine tried everything they could on allen but they couldn't beat him in 1993 and they couldn't do it in 2000, and they wont do it in 2008.
Remember, allen won by the largest vote margin for governor in VA history in almost 4 decades
That's in VA where there is a huge Republican majority and even most Dems are Republicans. Come on.