Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

I used to live in Virginia and, while I still follow the Redskins, I never could take much interest in VA politics. However, I did know enough about the race for the Democractic nomination for governor to know one thing: I wanted Terry McAuliffe to lose. Badly. Well, VA did not let me down: Deeds Wins Democratic Primary for VA Governor

State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds dominated Virginia's three-way Democratic primary for governor Tuesday, defeating a much better financed Clinton White House insider and a former legislative colleague.

Deeds took nearly 50 percent of the vote to 26 percent for Terry R. McAuliffe and nearly 24 percent for Brian J. Moran, unofficial totals showed. Nearly 320,000 people voted in the race, about 6 percent of the state's 5 million registered voters but more than officials predicted. Deeds piled up surprisingly large margins across the state, including in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of northern Virginia that his opponents call home.

50 - 26 is not a loss. That is Pickett's charge, Burnside at Fredricksburg, and Grant at cold Harbor all rolled into one. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. McAuliffe is one of the worst people in American politics; a fast talking (you could almost call it jive) Dollar-crat who loves to lament "inequality" while raking in millions from shady stock transactions from the business world's dregs, such as Global Crossing. It's hard to know what he hoped to accomplish with this quixotic run, but having lost this badly we can only hope he will bow out gracefully (pffff!) from public life