It’s probably time for Darrell McGraw to pack it up, and pack it in.  Let him begin his new journey for life outside of state government.  If he’s still AG in 2012 – we suspect that he will face a well funded candidate – maybe even from his own party – who will mark the end of his tumultuous career.  From the Herald Dispatch:

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s Democratic Party was largely successful on Election Day, but the results also show a gray lining.

Barack Obama had been aided by a more extensive ground game and a 2-to-1 voter advantage. But he became the third consecutive Democratic presidential contender to lose the Mountain State to his Republican opponent, and by a slightly greater margin than his 2004 predecessor.

The majority party also proved unable to prevent West Virginia’s only Republican member of Congress, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, from securing a fifth term.

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