News Media Commentary: Who are all those McCain-Warner voters?

Interesting article from Marc Fisher today on the tale of the elusive "McCain-Warner" voter.

Fisher hit the streets with U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Mark Warner in an effort to find out what compels Virginia voters to switch parties down at the Senate section.

Some reasons offered up by the people he talked to-

• Warner's history as governor compels voters to think of him as a guy who reaches across party lines and gets things done.
  
• Warner's business background helped boost the technology sector and was great for Virginia, particularly NoVa.
  
• Even straight voting Republicans credit Warner with being an "unusually acceptable Democrat."
• People are "unsure" of Obama, but McCain and Warner are people that have been in the public eye for a long time, being watched.
• The characterization of Virginia as a place unready to relate to Obama- "the kind of place that says, 'You're going to conform to our ways or you're going to have a problem.'"
• Warner said himself- his years of work before running for governor making himself known at fairs, festivals, and turning himself into a NASCAR fan- connected him to "rural Virginia culture." Warner says it's unrealistic to expect that Obama could do all that groundwork in the short time of a general election campaign.

How many media articles am I going to have to analyze comparing Warner and Obama? Where is Gilmore's attention? Why is he getting ignored? Just because he's thirty points back doesn't mean he's non-existent.

Where's the Republican love, people?