I hadn’t realized just how significant the endorsement of billionaire entrepreneur Sheila C. Johnson was for Republican Bob McDonnell yesterday. I knew she had given almost entirely to Democrats; what I didn’t know until I just read it is that she has given more than $600,000 to current Democratic governor Tim Kaine since 2000, making her his second-largest individual donor.

What’s more, “Kaine’s top donor, Radford businessman Randal J. Kirk, said Monday he is undecided . . . ‘I’m thinking about the matter, but at the current moment, I have not found any significant reason to get involved – I think either of them would be fine.’” Kirk backed Terry McAuliffe in the primary.

If Creigh Deeds is running as the heir to Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, how did he lose, or fail to win, the support of these two?