The results are in and now it’s time to sift through the ashes in search of a narrative.

A few threads are easily found.

First: money doesn’t always matter (but spending nearly a million probably saved Walter Stosch’s political career).

Second: it wasn’t a pretty night for incumbents (see Bell, Williams and Lambert).

Third: Tim Kaine pulls a Gilmore in the Joannou race. Kaine and Gilmore increasingly look like opposite sides of the same coin.

Fourth: Conservatives won a few big victories…but will they be phyrric?

Fifth: George Allen returns to play in the races, and places a lot of winning bets on RINOs. The idea that these candidates somehow embody Jeffersonian-conservative ideals makes me wonder whether Allen is speaking of Thomas Jefferson, or George Jefferson.

(Cross posted at Bearing Drift)