Posted on 11/08/2011 7:38:16 PM PST by 11th_VA
Edited on 11/08/2011 7:57:16 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
House Democratic Minority Leader Ward Armstrong has lost the seat he's held for nearly 20 years.
In a race symbolically important to the Republicans, Del. Charles Poindexter won 53 percent of the vote over Armstrong, whom the GOP targeted both in redistricting and in heavy financial support for Poindexter.
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On the downside it appears that long-time State Sen. Edd Houck (D) may have pulled out a squeaker over challenger Bryce Reeve. The difference is just over a 100 votes with one precinct not reporting yet.
Q: Did Obama come to stump for this person in their Virginia district?
If so, we need the "guts pose" joint photo taken with the both of them; and b) we need some local Virginia press on the Obama visit to the district.
Spread this around like crazy. Say there is more where this comes from for 2012. Then let the Conservative talk shows and blogosphere GO TO TOWN ON THIS ONE TOMORROW. Time to get off defense and onto offense, get this thing off the CAIN SMEARS/CHARACTER ASSASSINATION/HE-SAID/SHE-SAID and back on to message, on to BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. HMM HMMM MMMMM!
Last I saw it looked like the Dems were going to hold the VA state senate. If that is the end result, it will be a huge disappointment. There were still a lot of close races, but it wasn't looking good.
The Democrats are dug in deep all over, and even with a relatively unpopular president and a horrible economy it is just very difficult to dislodge them. Anyone who thinks 2012 is going to be a cakewalk is deluding themselves.
Scrub my #4 just now then. Better a wake up call now, though, to rally the troops, than a rude awakening on a November evening 1 year from now.
Great news in Virginia. Now I hope the state Senate flips.
BTTT
“Anyone who thinks 2012 is going to be a cakewalk is deluding themselves.”
I strongly agree.
Obama has money. Lots of it. Union money, Wall Street money, etc.
Depsite his poor polling numbers, he has a strong plurality of voters who’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for him - blacks, Hispanics, white liberals, etc.
He has a media that will be as every bit in the bag for him in 2012 as they were in 2008.
I don’t care who our nominee is. it can be Romney, Paul or Perry. But that nominee better be focused and our overall GOP message better be on target.
Excellent. Congrats VA. Just remember who to vote for in 2012!
I think that Houck will win, the last precinct is in Fredericksburg and it will probably push him out of recount range.
It’s a shame the GOP only picked up 1 seat Senate with all that money spent, but Dem sure can gerrymander with the best of them.
Try Herman Cain. He is the one with the integrity and strength to actually lead this country in a restoration of our Constitutional Republic. Romney and Perry are Republican statists.
Ravenstar
Wait a minute, the numbers just changed and now Reeve’s is up by 200 with one precinct left. It may not be over yet!
All we need is this seat and Bolling is the tie-breaker. We already won one of the Dem’s seats.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of echo-chamber fantasies going around here. Seems like a majority have managed to convince themselves Hussein is so weak he might not even run for re-election. The results tonight should make it clear that this country has not changed, has not moved to the right and in any noticeable way, and is as beholden to the social welfare state as ever (probably even more so). From what I see so far, this was not a very good night for the good guys. With a failed president and a crappy economy, the Dems managed to do quite well this evening in many of the big contests and on a lot of the spotlight issues.
maybe not. Senate 17 is not over yet. I think they are going to go to a recount.
It's a shame, because these elections matter, but a lot of people ignore the smaller elections. They'll come out during a presidential campaign, but that's about it. These small ones are usually won or lost by the political junkies.
What's unusual is an unprecedented turn out, but that doesn't seem to be happening anywhere tonight.
OMG !
There were some conservatives right here on FR this morning whining that they weren't going to bother to vote because the Republican candidates weren't conservative enough for them at the local/state level. One guy from Virginia decided to sit out the election even though the state senate and redistricting hangs in the balance, and others were even encouraging this suicidal behavior. I seriously think Ronald Reagan would have been ripped to shreds here by many for being not politically pure enough.
What's unusual is an unprecedented turn out, but that doesn't seem to be happening anywhere tonight.
This is because nothing has fundamentally changed. Many conservatives deluded themselves into thinking the emergence of the Tea Party meant the tide had turned and the country had shifted ideologically. Sadly, that does not appear to be the case at all. We've largely fought the left to a draw, but have not been able to decisively change the political landscape at all. This nation is as wedded to the social welfare state and government dependence as it ever was - and with an explosion of minority voters who reliably cast ballots for Democrats it is going to get even harder to change this nation for the better via elections.
Virginia state board of elections shows Reeves ahead by 86 votes (out of about 45,000 cast). My college classmate the Hon. Robert F. McDonnell needs to get the ballot boxes impounded.
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