but now, here we are at the end of the year, bringing you the news tonight that democrats have officially swept virginia, the obama coalition did show up even without obama on the ballot. they showed up and produced this crazy, never saw it coming, democratic sweep of the old dominion. african-american women turned out. their votes, just by the odds, it was supposed to be theirs. the conventional wisdom said the obama coalition was not going to show up but it did. and today, they have chosen to put a democrat in every statewide office. partly because the politics are changing, if virginia is a bellweather state, and it is, absolutely, this can't be happy holiday news for republicans because the question has been whether democrats could win big, could win at all without barack