What the media won't tell you about the Virginia gubernatorial elections

[majamay]

The media won't shut up pretending that Obama must have a negative effect on Democrats because the Democratic candidate in the Virginia race today will likely lose the elections. But they won't tell you this very important fact: The last 9 VA Governor elections have been won by the candidate of the party opposite to the U.S. President's:

Mills E. Godwin, Jr. January 12, 1974 Republican
John N. Dalton January 14, 1978 Republican
Chuck Robb January 16, 1982 Democratic
Gerald L. Baliles January 18, 1986 Democratic
Douglas Wilder January 14, 1990 Democratic
George Allen January 15, 1994 Republican
Jim Gilmore January 17, 1998 Republican
Mark Warner January 12, 2002 Democratic
Tim Kaine January 14, 2006 Democratic

You wouldn't know that this pattern will simply continue today by reading or listening to what the over-analyzing pundits have to say.

[monmouth]

1. I love my TV off. Listening to Rod Stewart...."It Had To Be You"....n/t

[Blue_Tires]

2. i'm pretty sure a republican was president in '74...

Ironically, Godwin's first term as governor in 1966 was as a democrat, and LBJ was in office...

[bigwillq]

3. I could care less who wins in Virginia

I don't live there. But VA and NJ and that upstate NY race have no bearing on what may happen in 2010 or 2012 and it's not a referendum on Obama.

And all that pattern stuff is BS too. They are giving themselves too much credit.