The Richlands News-Press said:
Kaine, in the same vein as Warner, seems less likely to govern on popular Democratic dogma and more likely to govern based on practicality and good management practices. In fact, the Warner-Kaine administration often has echoed the moderate, progressive and Republican administrations of Linwood Holton, Mills Godwin and John Dalton.
I love hearing papers here in Southwest Virginia tell Kilgore, "thanks, but no thanks."