This is good news period for Dems in the state. Im really excited about the governors race this year.
They just need to make sure that they have a say in the next redistricting. VA probably gains a seat and a court would very likely draw a 6D-6R map. They can re-take the state senate just by electing a D LG in 2013. Of course there is a Blue Dog in coal country who is very obviously going down in the next cycle, but there is at least one Obama seat in NOVA still on the table for them to flip and make up for that.
Yeah, the only really vulnerable State Senate seat Democrats still hold is the one held by Luke Puckett in coal country. Every other one they hold went for Obama by double digits and even went for Kerry in 2004. So they have 19 pretty safe seats.
