Virginia Republicans Surge to Largest House Majority Ever

Fox Via AP ^ | November 9, 2011 | Staff

[lbryce]

Republicans appeared on the cusp of taking control of the Virginia Senate Tuesday with at least one veteran Democrat losing to a freshman Republican senator and a seven-term Democrat trailing a Republican challenger.

In the House of Delegates, Republicans picked up at least six seats, staking them to 66 of the chamber's 100 seats, the GOP's largest House majority ever. That doesn't count a conservative independent, Del. Lacey Putney, who organizes with House Republicans and another race that was too close to call.

Democrat Roscoe Reynolds lost his bid for a fourth term to freshman GOP Sen. Bill Stanley in the Senate's marquee race, bringing the GOP to within one seat of 20-20 split in the 40-member Senate. Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling breaks Senate tie votes.

[lbryce]

Sen. Dick Saslaw, leader of the Senate's Democrats, sought solace that the results were not as dire as the easy Republican takeover many had predicted. "It is what it is," he said. "A 20-20 split is considerably better than what everybody was expecting when people were predicting we could lose five to nine seats."

Yes, Senator Saslaw;it is what it is. That is, a bad day for Democrats, a wonderful, uplifting harbinger of things to come, for all Americans, the nation, the new White House occupant.

[Lancey Howard]

Great news!
Still, the sad fact of the matter is that nearly half the nation’s voting citizens are bums, deadbeats, parasites, and scum. In places like California, Massachusetts, and Ohio, it’s more than half.

[bksanders]

I have sent my congratulatory to Sen. Stanley!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

With an increase in illegal immigrant voting, with the finite number of ways that the left cheats in how they vote, and with all other U.S. criminals being, eventually, allowed to vote will increase the total pro-left votes, even more.

[Belle22]

The Loudoun County (northern Virginia) GOP ran an unpopular House candidate for the 87th. His mailings turned a lot of people off and a NARAL-endorsed Democrat won by 300 votes. Thankfully, GOP Military vet Dick Black won his Senate race and the GOP otherwise dominated the Loudoun County races.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Republicans also stood to gain another seat if David Ramadan's 50-vote lead out of 10,000 cast over Democrat Mike Kondratick holds up after a possible recount.

THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS.

Ramadan is a Mooslimb Brotherhood associated tool and "Protégé" of the BOTTOM-FEEDING, RAT-BASTURD (sic) TRAITOR and ISLAMIC JIHADIST SUPPORTER, ENABLER, and "Dangerous" 5th Columnist, Grover Norquist.

[personalaccts]

the question is will the GOP maintain there spine unlike they did when Warner and Kain were Governors? As a former resident of Northern Va I watched the GOP break and go along with Warners tax increases

[wayoverontheright]

Central Virginia’s newly re-drawn 59th house district, a convoluted area encompassing Lynchburg in the west, as far east as Farmville, and north to near Charlottesville, went Republican in a big surprise. Tom Garrett, the Republican, embraced fiscal and social conservatism while the Democrat from Lynchburg, Bert Dodson, who ran to the right of traditional liberals, still lost.

Dodson had been a Lynchburg city council member, a business owner and certainly no flaming lib, but was a Democrat nonetheless. Garrett was a complete unknown from Louisa county, the smallest population in the new district.

Dodson also outspent the Republican two to one. My conclusions: blacks definitely stayed home, and liberalism is no longer trusted. Also the media held no sway.

You can definitely put Virginia in the Republican “lock” column for the 2012 election.

[wayoverontheright]

Oops, sorry. That would be Virginia’s 22nd Senate seat, not the 59th house seat that Garrett won.

[PapaBear3625]

Up to this point, the House was 59-R, 39-D and 2 independents, the Senate was 22-D, 18-R. The Gov is an R.

If we get effective control the VA Senate, then there's time to get things like Voter ID through before Nov 2012.

[Redmen4ever]

My count of the statewide popular vote in state Senate races: 57 to 39 percent GOP (with the remainder going to independents and write-ins). The Democrats retains part control in the Senate because of gerrymandering and incumbency.

[Gabz]

We do have Voter ID in Virginia.

[PapaBear3625]

We do have Voter ID in Virginia.

OK, so pass Constitutional Carry, or have municipalities stop withholding union dues. Something.

[bert]

-——Sen. Phillip Puckett narrowly kept his seat in southwestern Virginia-——

For the first time in my memory, we in east Tennessee were treated to he spectacle of all out TV ad war for a Virginia senate race. It seems Puckett won but his back and butt are bleeding from the on air beating he took.

[randita]

Good news in VA.

[Gabz]

OK, so pass Constitutional Carry, or have municipalities stop withholding union dues. Something.

Virginia is a Shall Issue state and a right to work state. I am not familiar with all municipalities in all parts of VA, but there is no forced union dues for state employees.

[Godebert]

"If we get effective control the VA Senate, then there's time to get things like Voter ID through before Nov 2012."

I thought we already had voter ID? The clean and articulate young poll worker asked to see my identification before I was allowed to vote.

[MSF BU]

A GOP officeholder who served in the military?! What would George Allen say?

[lasereye]

I wonder if the Democrats’ election eve rally with Warner and Kaine warning about the “extremists” taking power if the Republicans took the Senate swayed any voters at the last minute. I don’t usually watch the evening news so I don’t know how much airplay that got.

[matginzac]

Love Dick Black - so glad to hear he’s doing well up in Loudoun...