Republicans take 67 of the 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates

Despite the Democrats winning the governorship (thanks to a Libertarian who was large financed by wealthy Democrats), Republicans keep their solid lock on the Virginia House of Delegates, winning just more than 2/3rds of the seats.  Republicans also just barely kept the Attorney General post, though they lost the governorship and the Lieutenant Governor offices.

McAuliffe won by slightly less than 1.9 percentage points, but the Libertarian spoiler took 6.6%.

Here is something pretty obvious:

With the vote looking closer than several opinion polls had predicted, some Republicans were expressing frustration that several surveys leading up to the race had suggested that Terry McAuliffe would coast to victory, perhaps hindering Cuccinelli’s fund-raising efforts and chilling his side’s turnout. . . .