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I live in the DC suburbs portion of VA. Cuccinelli lost the DC suburbs 62% to 33%. The DC suburbs made up 16% of the total vote. McAwful won the Tidewater area 54% to 40%, which also made up 16% of the total vote.

Cuccinelli's strength was in Central Western VA, which he won 56% to 34%. CWV made up 22% of the total vote.

I was a delegate at the GOP convention that nominated Gillespie who won a little less than 60% of the votes. Gillespie is not a favorite of conservatives or the Tea Party. It will be interesting to see what the Rep turnout is for Gillespie. He doesn't excite too many people. He is a vanilla candidate who lacks passion or a vision. His formulaic approach to the campaign is no surprise. He is running it like the political consultant he was.

I would be surprise if his losing margin is below 10%.

Sounds like you are whining...which you are. Despite your "knowledge", you forgot one thing - money. Gillespie had a lot less money than Warner. I think Gillespie has done a great job considering there has been little money. He didn't really start showing ads in the DC area until the first part of October (there were a few stray ones before that).

Fund raising has been a challenge since big money does not donate to campaigns expected to lose. Based on money available, he has done a great job. Ten days ago Gillespie was actually canceling ads since he did not have the money to pay for them.

Yes, I realize, Ed does not have much charisma and is not a conservative darling; however, voting 70 percent of something is better than zero percent of something, which is what we get with a Warner victory.

The odds are greatly in Warner's corner, but in a low turnout election, sometimes there are surprises.