Virginia

Outlook: Toss Up

13 Electoral Votes (13 in 2000)
Bush won in 2004 by 8.2%

Virginia, once a solidly conservative state, has seen its traditional Reddish hue turning purple, largely due to the explosion of population growth and development in northern Virginia over the last few years. With back-to-back Democratic governors, a U.S. Senate Democratic victory in 2006 over an entrenched incumbent, and the expectation of the near-certain election of former Governor Mark Warner to the state’s other Senate seat, Virginia’s political transition has placed its 13 electoral votes in play nationally, despite George W. Bush’s solid victories in the Old Dominion in 2000 and 2004.