As voters size up the economic records of the vice presidential nominees, Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has four years' worth of talking points as the commonwealth's former governor.



But the economy he presided over was starkly different than that of his Republican rival, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, with whom he will debate Tuesday night in Virginia.

Kaine was sworn in as Virginia's 70th governor in January 2006, just as the Great Recession was about to send the national economy in reverse and begin a wave of layoffs that left millions of workers sidelined.

