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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
If we get effective control the VA Senate, then there's time to get things like Voter ID through before Nov 2012.
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.
-——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.
Good news in VA.
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.
The only way Obama stays in power is if he seizes it.
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.
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This Saslaw guy is a TRUE idiot. Never really mentioned this to anyone, but after I’d written a letter complaining out illegal immigration in Virginia, the guy called me up at HOME and chewed me out over it for a good 15 minutes. I told him my husband had just come back from Iraq and that he was a total a776hole for calling me up. He was obviously just trying to belittle and persecute me for my beliefs.
I’ve never told anyone, and really wish I could tell it to someone that matters .. he’s a real jerk.