Republican McDonell wins Virginia governor

Gen JC Christian tweets that "Creigh Deeds proves that if a white man blatantly screws up, you can still blame it on a black guy."

Markos tweets that Deeds took the rest of the Dem candidates down with him.

ABC's Jake Tapper tweets that Obama is not watching the returns.

Media Matters reports that in 2001, during the Bush presidency, the media was convinced that off-off-year elections were insignificant and certainly not a reflection on the sitting president.



Joe says the loss in VA wasn't unexpected. He says Creigh Deeds ran a crappy campaign.

Here we go. I'm sitting in a Holiday Inn room in Portland, Maine with Joe, his sister, and their friend John, waiting for election results from various parts of the city - they have their minions all over the place, calling in momentarily.

Here is a results page for Maine.

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