So this is why Gov-elect Kaine won the formerly Repub. Loudoun county

[spooky3]

in Virginia's election last week. Loudoun is a well-off exurb of Washington DC. Lots of soccer moms and dads out there too.

More precisely, I wonder if this editorial was read by, and persuaded, a lot of residents who might otherwise have voted Repub.

There were some debates last week about whether a "new" Dem. strategy was being used, whether talking more about religion made the difference, etc., etc. I think this excellent editorial gets a lot closer to the real reasons but mine's just another opinion.

http://www.leesburg2day.com/current.cfm?catid=9&newsid=11241

In 18 years of publishing, this newspaper has never endorsed a political candidate. Nor are we about to start now.

But that does not mean we cannot ponder whether a particular candidate is fit to hold office. Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore begs that question to an extreme we have not seen in Virginia for many years.

Mr. Kilgore has proven himself willing to ignore the public service standards of the profession that brought him to the only elective office he’s ever held, while manipulating the grief of crime victims as a weapon in the pursuit of public office. Virginia does not stand for the things that Mr. Kilgore finds politically convenient, and it should not stand for such a person holding the highest office in the Commonwealth.

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. I think Dean said it good on MTP today

He said that he thought it was because of negative campaigning from Kilgore. Last week I saw a report about the NJ and Virgina wins and this reporter talked about negative campaigning and told how people are getting tired of it. So I think that helps a lot too.

[Captain Hilts]

2. The ad itself insulted and offended people. Not this editorial about it.

If you turned on your television, you couldn't miss seeing the ad. It was everywhere and I know two people who hadn't planned on voting at all who went out and voted against Kilgore specifically because of that ad.

[fearnobush]

3. This why we see so much Aruba Hallowy...white girl victems on Fox and

the rest of the M$M. The GOP sucks people in with these simpathy for victems of crime - that is white victems.

"while manipulating the grief of crime victims as a weapon in the pursuit of public office."

[pacalo]

4. Kilgore is pure Repuglican through & through...

What we have seen in the final two weeks of the campaign is the emergence of a willingness on the part of Mr. Kilgore’s campaign to do and say anything, no matter how reprehensible or indefensible, in order to simply get elected. That very willingness is what defines people who ought to be kept out of public office, because it says far too much about where their standards are likely to lie if they are elected.