Virginia Goes Purple, Elects McDonnell

Hyper-conservative Republican candidate Bob McDonnell won the Virginia gubernatorial race in an election the media decided was a referendum on Obama, and Virginian voters had the audacity to believe was a referendum on a crappy candidate or a crappier candidate.

Despite the fact that McDonnell's legislative record (and graduate school thesis) showed him to be an opponent of reproductive choice, LGBT rights and married women with children working outside the home, conservative Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds' campaign turned off voters with its strongly negative--but not substatively negative--ads and the candidate's own inability to inspire or convince even Northern Virginia's staunchly Democratic voters. By the end of the campaign, even the women that McDonnell thought should have stayed in the kitchen trusted him to do better by them than Creigh Deeds.

Naturally, this was all Obama's fault. Someone will eventually figure out how.