Incorrect. Only DeWine was kicked out. For the statewide offices, excluding judicial, ALL of them were open seats. The Dems lucked out with sweeping all but one (Auditor).
"The electorate in VA gave the boot to a TrueconservativeTM (Allen) in favor of an ersatz moderate 'Rat (Webb). They've elected 'Rat governors for two elections running, and the 'Rat candidate for Senate the last election absolutely stomped and thoroughly thrashed to death the through-and-through TrueconservativeTM 'Pub candidate, blowing him out of the water by over 30 points."
Simplistic analysis. Allen ran a poor race and got in trouble over that ludicrously overblown "macaca" comment (all the while the psychotic Socialist Webb was given a pass by his open Jew-baiting in both the Dem primary and general, nevermind all his other odious problems). As for the Gov's race, the '01 contest we lost because of a bitter internecine GOP primary that saw the loser's people go over to the rodent (Mark Warner). The Dems won again in '05 because of a poor campaign on behalf of our nominee and the inexplicable popularity of the incumbent that got his Lieutenant his "2nd" term. The blowout by Warner of his predecessor Gilmore was partly due to the fact that even with Gilmore, this seat wasn't seriously contested.
I might remind you that the 1980s saw a similar winning streak for the Democrats when they won THREE Gubernatorial elections in a row (1981; 1985; 1989) and in 1988 the GOP Senate incumbent fled his seat rather than face a popular Democrat ex-Governor named Robb (and the GOP nominee lost by as wide a margin as Gilmore). The Dems have a bigger problem this year in VA with the Governorship with at least three candidates running, promising a very ugly primary. The GOP has already settled on a candidate, the sitting Attorney General, who leads ALL the Democrats in face-to-face matchups. I think the Democrat winning streak is about to come to an end in VA.
I hope you are correct.
RINO or not, DeWine got creamed by a liberal 'Rat with a voting record to the left of Dennis Kucinich (!). Again, we just can't write that off as bad campaigning or sharing the mud of a political scandal in an unrelated state office. The loss is just by too decisive a margin to ignore the shift in political trends.
I hope you are right about the pending gubernatorial contest in VA. It's just too important a state (like OH) to be in the 'Rat column for long. And yes, sometimes elections run in streaks. The 'Rats owned the governor's office for two elections in the '80s (Richard Celeste). Then the 'Pubs took over for four contests (Voinovich and Taft).