it's also been a nonpresidential year, obviously. despite all of those factors, voter turnout was up. democrats were hopeful that that would lead to a win for them, and it just did tonight. and for ed gillespie, i would imagine it is a much -- far less -- a sour and somber scene over at his headquarters tonight. he really came so close, did far better than most people expected him to do.o he has really tried to tie himself to president trump's agenda. he campaigned hard on immigration, on crime. he hit his opponent very hard, and in the final days of this campaign, northam hit back a bit. there was that ad that we've been talking about so much,, which wasn't produced by the northam campaign. but it was produced by a latino group outside the campaign, which showed a man in a pickup truck with a gillespie bumper sticker on the back, chasing down minority children. that has led to one of the most