obama won the state but mark werner has a challenge this year. i watched him campaign at the planking, a famous old tradition of virginia politics. very republican leaning. many people came up to me afterward why did you vote for that bill? warner's response to them was, i did, but i've outlined several fixes to it. he was pretty adept at pivoting and moving away. he talked to reporters afterwards and we asked him, what are you going to run on from your senate record this year? and he brought up a number of things. his work with the gangs, his efforts to pass, you know, legislation on debt, inf infrastructure. he did not talk about health care. he wanted to talk about more of his record as governor rather than senator. >> if you look at elections as trial. if you don't mount a defense, you lose. and many democrats won't mount a defense, won't say, okay, it's not perfect. as he just said mark warner s d said. why don't a democratic super pac