Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
I hate to step on the "New Progressivism" salon, but I've spent the last hour or so putting together a spiffy map of this week's election in Virginia, and I'm sure as heck not going to let it go to waste at this point:
This map shows that the Kaine Kilgore election represents a midpoint between the '96 vintage Clinton urban-suburban coalition and the modern Mark Warner/Paul Hackett urban-rural-smalltown coalition. Not pictured are Kaine's small but noticeable improvements in many small towns throughout Virgina: places like Williamsburg, Staunton, Lexington, Waynesboro, and Danville all showed small blue-tinted shifts in their partisan alignment.
