My guess is that heavenly forces are shifting public opinion in favor of Jim Gilmore, who is the only real Conservative in the country, or so he told us a few times when he ran for President.

Look things are great now.  Warner is cruising to victory, but lets not be cocky.  We're just a macaca, or a deer head in a mailbox from losing this thing.  Heck gilmore will probably have signs up saying something like no income tax, by the time the election rolls around.  Never forget Mary Sue Terry.

But in a Democratic wave year against an already well-known and disliked opponent?  Gilmore needs several dozen deer heads to get close.