AuH2O
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« on: July 09, 2006, 01:01:45 PM » |
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Kaine was elected with the full knowledge that the GOP legislature would limit his ability to screw things up. Virginian voters have been-- for basically the entire history of the state-- pragmatic and somewhat preferenced towards technocratic leaders. Virginia went for Bell in 1860 rather than Breckenridge. Nixon in 1960. And so on.
Kaine was seen as somewhat more competent than Kilgore, so he was elected. Meanwhile, he is the only relevant Democrat in the entire state (in state politics- obviously there are some Dem Reps). He has no mandate for a left-wing agenda and the fact he lied about his intentions made it easy as pie for the legislature to swat him down.
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