I did not expect quite the overwhelming win. I did expect the win though. Deed’s campaign was weak and neither he, President Obama, nor the DNC really helped the case. It just goes to say that your platform is less of an issue than your image. McDonnell is a player…Deeds is a hick. Unfortunately neither of them had an apparent platform.
The results across the board, huge Republican inroads in VA, and in other regional races less northern NY State, just show how fickle the voters are. God forbid we should stick with an elected representative or party, stay the course, and find a plan that works. Let’s just keep bouncing from one to another and hope that something works….
I still haven’t seen how McDonnell (native of PA by the way) plans to improve the transportation situation in VA. From what I have read, less than a million dollars is available in the highway fund. We’ve raised no money for improvements for 25 years. We need to spend one billion a year for the next 10 years to maintain our roads
One example of what has been done can be found here http://www.28freeway.com/. Route 28 is a major thoroughfare right near me that runs through the “tech corridor.” I used it to commute back and forth to work. It was supposed to be a four year, 200 million dollar project starting in 2002. They just finished it about two days ago. So it was three years overdue…and who knows how much over budget it was.