No surprising, but Mark Warner will be Virginia’s next Senator. A lot of attention, rightly, has focused on the GOP’s objective headwinds in 2008. But the Virginia GOP knew that John Warner (a Republican) was retiring and that Mark Warner, a popular former governor, was going to run against him. They also knew that Tom Davis, a moderatish NOVA Republican congressman was their best chance of holding the seat. But instead of nominating him, they actually switched the nominating process to a caucus system rigged to favor his unelectable more rightwing opponent. Thus, they entered the election spotting the Democrats a Senate seat. And Davis, pissed off, resigned from the House thus handing his seat to the Democrats.
It was strange behavior.
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