One IM this morning:

The bottom line is that Kilgore ran one of the worst campaigns I’ve seen since, well, Kerry’s. It was an eminently winnable race. His downright strange focus on the death penalty, using victims of violence to tell the story, seemed distasteful to many, but more fundamentally, was just not what people are worried about in Virginia. What about the multi-billion dollar tax hike at a time that the government was running a surplus? Car tax? Where the hell were those issues? There, I feel better now.