Some hopeful commentary about GOP gubenatorial candidate, Bob McConnell. Michael Barone weighs in on the numbers.

Overall, the turnout suggests to me that the balance of enthusiasm in the Virginia governor race is not working nearly so strongly for Democrats, and may not be working for them much at all, as it was in the fall of 2008. Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran were not able to bring nearly as many Virginians in a commonwealth of 7.8 million people to the polls as Henry Howell and Andrew Miller were in a commonwealth of 5.1 million people 32 years ago. In this decade Americans have been voting with their feet as much as anything else, and in these numbers I don’t see anything like the footfall we saw for Barack Obama six and 15 months ago.

The numbers that experts like Barone point to demonstrate why its critical for Republicans not to let Democrats and their mouthpiece MSM define them. The GOP ran a centrist and were beaten. Continued calls within the party to become centrist don’t make sense.

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