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Defying recent voting trends that saw several Northern Virginia Republicans win big in November, Del. David W. Marsden (D-Fairfax) narrowly won a special election Tuesday night to represent a broad swath of southwestern Fairfax County in the Virginia Senate.... With all 39 precincts counted just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, Marsden led Hunt by 317 votes out of 23,569 votes cast. In Fairfax County, a recount requires less than a 1 percent difference and unofficial results from Tuesday night indicate the 37th vote fell just outside of that margin. Marsden won big in Burke and Fairfax Station and among absentee voters....

Virginia's incoming governor Bob McDonnell (R) congratulated Virginia's newest senator Dave Marsden (D) tonight on his upset against Steve Hunt (R) in Fairfax County. "I look forward to continuing to work with him in the years ahead in his new capacity,'' McDonnell said. "In these tough economic times, Virginians need leaders in Richmond who will work together to create new jobs and more opportunities. While we may not agree on every issue, I know that Dave and I share a commitment to making this a better Virginia for all our citizens." Marsden will be sworn in tomorrow at noon when...

As expected, the slumping economy weighed heavily on voters. David Wilder, 56, of Burke said mounting job losses and, to a lesser degree, the debate over health care pushed him to vote for Hunt. "It's the economy, it's the stimulus, it's health care, it's the way the system is being run," said Wilder, a physician.

In recent days, Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell has contributed $90,000 and the Republican caucus in the senate has contributed another $90,000 to the state GOP party -- all of which is being spent on Steve Hunt's campaign for state senate in the 37th District next week. The money is being spent on mailers, phone calls and one internal poll, which shows Hunt leading Democrat Dave Marsden in the race to replace Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R) who was elected attorney general in November.

Fellow Freepers, I just made an online donation to Steve Hunt. He is the Republican running for the 37th VA Senate, to replace Ken Cuccinelli who was elected as Atty. General of VA. Steve is a conservative, progun and prolife Republican. He is endorsed by VCDL and VSHL Pac. His opponent, Dave Marsden, is a democrat who just barely won re-election in Nov. as a delegate. Democrat Marsden lives outside the district, and to had to "get a room" to legally qualify to run against Steve Hunt. He is getting funding from leftwing groups like NARAL. I challenge my fellow...

Steve Hunt WINS the GOP nod and will now face Dave Marsden!!! Final results: Steve Hunt – 51% Marianne Horinko – 25% Will Nance – 24% The special election is Tues Jan 12, 2010....let's support Steve with donations and volunteers for this important race to beat Democrat Marsden, who "got a room" in the district so he could run for this seat.