^It's a blue wall until it isn't. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, ME-02 and New Hampshire (unfortunately) would be heavily contested by the GOP in this scenario. It would be difficult for them to win without VA, but it's certainly not impossible. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they won without VA in 2016.
Fair enough. I think Wisconsin could possibly be ripe for the picking at some point, so that could substitute. Seeing as Democrats would no longer have to contest VA, they could divert that money to defend other states though.
When I say "cripple", I'm a little more sympathetic towards Democrats because I see it as Republicans having to pick off states that they haven't won in a
long time, with the added bonus of Democrats having extra resources to exploit Florida's burgeoning Hispanic pro-Democratic eligible voter population.
So not impossible, but they
start from a position of presumptive loser imo.