They are neither important nor winnable. Look up the election results in 2008 and 2012.
This is an Electoral College tie that will most likely result in a Republican being elected president. And it's the most likely victory in 2016.
It's amazing how accurate this was in retrospect.
Minus ME-02, he correctly got the EXACT Republican path to 270 in 2016. That's incredibly impressive and the type of foresight that campaigns spend millions of dollars to do less well. This thread is full of some interesting takes, and it's funny to see how on the mark a lot of people were about this state. It's amazing that more people on this board still don't understand the political reality in Virginia - there are just not enough Republican voters for them to carry the state in all but the most unusual circumstances.
