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Cheers to the AP for the initial brief filed on the victory in Virginia for Republican Bob McDonnell. This is, of course, a severe blow to the Washington Post that exerted massive efforts to derail McDonnell, dredging up college papers or some such nonsense and trying to create a surge against him. It failed.

The initial brief from the AP is quick and honest - hard to tell if this type of honest, sober analysis will continue through tomorrow's post-mortems. I've underlined the stuff I'm (pleasantly) surprised the included:
Republicans wrested political control of Virginia from the Democrats on Tuesday as independent voters swung behind the GOP, a troubling sign for President Barack Obama and his party heading into an important midterm election year.