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DCist offers their take on the upcoming election free-for-all now that John Warner's announced he's retiring in 2009:

And though it's ridiculously early to make predictions, this is how we see things playing out. Davis jumps in early and spends most of 2008 on mock-up hunting trips and talking about how gay marriage is destroying America, killing puppies and fueling the Iraqi insurgency. In the meantime, Gilmore will campaign on a promise to widen I-66 to 12 lanes in each direction and eat at as many Peruvian places as it takes to convince Virginia's growing Hispanic population that he's one of them. Of course, Mark Warner will raise no money and simply run on name recognition, easily getting votes from Democrats while winning votes from Republicans who think he's the older Warner.

[Edit: For those who don't follow VA politics, the first two would be Tom Davis and former governor/former (until last month) Republican presidential candidate Jim Gilmore.]