Site for Va. results

http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm

Precincts Reporting: 27 of 2426 (1.11%)
Registered Voters: 4,452,099 Total Voting: 16,281 Voter Turnout: 0.37 % Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage J W Kilgore Republican 8,460 51.96% T M Kaine Democratic 7,423 45.59% H R Potts Jr Independent 381 2.34% Write Ins 17 0.10%
Vote Totals:
16,281

Don't you think?

T M Kaine Democratic 25,590 54.28% J W Kilgore Republican 20,230 42.91%

WAVY says just the opposite. AAAAAAhhhhhhhh! Very few precincts have reported though.

J W Kilgore Republican 64,387 49.58% T M Kaine Democratic 63,335 48.77%

Precincts Reporting: 229 of 2426 (9.44%)
Registered Voters: 4,452,058 Total Voting: 273,428 Voter Turnout: 6.14 % Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage J W Kilgore Republican 174,724 63.90% T M Kaine Democratic 95,086 34.78%

:D

I'm getting a headache.

Kaine is down, but the Dems for Lt. Gov. and Atty. Gen. are up.

Do you know if rural (Southern) precincts come in early or late?

It may be that they mainly counted Southern Virginia at this point? Do you know?

T M Kaine Democratic 274,553 51.19%
J W Kilgore Republican 250,031 46.61%

reported yet. Or at least when I brought up VB, it was all 0s. Virginia Beach is the biggest city in Virginia and heavily Republican, so until it is reported, we shouldn't get our hopes up too high. Okay, now I'm really going to sign off, and take a break from all of this. This is worse than the most stressful sporting event!

and the local television numbers are all over the place.

and Roanoke still not counted.

about there being some problems with the voting machines in Roanoke. People trying to vote for Kaine and voting for Kilgore instead. I don't know how substantiated these claims were.

http://www.sbe.vipnet.org/nov2005/161.htm Roanoke County

http://www.sbe.vipnet.org/nov2005/810.htm Virginia Beach city

which is being counted first the punchcards or Diebold. his is driving me nuts.

Thanks for the link. I've got my fingers crossed!

Thanks for the link. I've got my fingers crossed!

I feel like I'm sweating out the races in VA and NJ as if they were my own. Funny what the internet and some personal contact with voters in other states can do for you. (Close ones.)

:woohoo:

I'm so happy.
:party: :party: :party: :toast: :toast: :toast:

:bounce: :wow: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: :patriot: I guess Slumpy's last minute campaign appearance for Kilgore didn't help out too much!!

You guys rawk!

:patriot: :woohoo: :yourock: :dem:

This deserves a :woohoo: or maybe :woohoo: :woohoo:

I started with a negative prejudice, but except for his relative anti-choice position (and even there it was really pro-life), he was standing up for democratic values. Probably not that easy to win like that in VA.

our Dem running for Delegate loss. :cry: She got about 45% of the vote. I will also say that Hampton roads looks very purply, just like it did last year. It is still neck and neck in VB for Gov., but the Repubs are taking t. Gov. and Atty. Gen. But I have to say they did much better than I expected.

and I didn't like Supriya's negative campaign. That's what Sal said in his victory speech -- that he had largely maintained a positive campaign. Well, now that he's our assemblyman, I'm going to follow what he does, and call and complain if he introduces or supports any kooky abortion laws. I think pro-choice people need to speak up (anybody read that abortion diary on dailykos, which was also on Frontline? I missed Frontline but I do feel like women's rights are going backwards in this country).

I have to say the one thing positive about Sal is he is for very tough laws against sex offenders. I think we need Dems who talk about this, too, because there is no cure for pedophilia, and they need to stay in jail. Why such a hard line from a liberal Dem like myself? Because when I checked the sex offender register list, I was horrified to learn that a pedophile lives right in my neighborhood. And I have two small children. (Luckily, there is an FBI agent living across the street from me, keeping an eye out, but he does have to go to work and isn't always around) So this is an important issue to me. Supriya didn't say anything about this in her campaign, and I think that was a huge mistake. We parents need reassurance on this. Reason 3,557 why I love JK -- he was a prosecutor and has no illusions about criminals.

I am curious to know whether the take that "Kaine won is really a victory for Warner" is true.

A few people are saying that on GDP in order to promote him, but what is you take? Was he that instrumental in this win (other than by not having been a bad governor, I mean).

I'm a transplanted Yankee. Warner came on the back of Gilmore who was horrible, and I think before that Allen. Warner was not the first Dem Gov., we also had Wilder, can't remember when he was elected I may have not been able to vote here yet since my husband was still in the military and we were still N.Y. residents.

should we start a thread Corzine for Pres. :sarcasm: For the loonies on DU.

Congrats Karynnj. :woohoo: :toast:

Too early for CA

:party::party::party:

President? - uh, no - I think NJ is more tolerant than of few other areas of the country. Forrester may never ever again show his nasty face in an election. ( Oh, talking to one candidate at the county level - part of the reason that Kerry was late to the Morristown event was because he was in the restaurant there so he could eat. )

Our county candidates lost but narrowly - which is much better than normal.

Because that doesn't say much for a national Democratic candidate in 2008. I'm glad he won and all, but yikes, how do we spread a more liberal message with Democrats like these in such high places??

Is he good on the environment, universal health care, living wage, something like that???

Warner's chances in '08, since he campaigned heavily for Kaine. Since the JK forum is a largely positive one, I just want to say that I really like Mark Warner, and thought he was a very good governor, and I wish him the best of luck in '08. He is adding color to the race with his "sensible center" mantra, and I think we should welcome him as another voice coming from Democrats.

Congratulations - You have a Democratic governor - Now, I am getting jealous. One more year waiting for that.

He would be a welcome (and classy) addition to any Dem primary. (I do wish that he would consider running for George Allen's seat in the Senate though. I would do anything to get that guy out there. But Gov. Warner has indicated that he likes the executive role and that's that. Sigh!)

by running as a moderate for your party!! Allen has high approval ratings in this state (why, I do not know as the one time I called his office the staffer was very rude to me, after I was very nice to him). And Mark Warner ran against Sen. John Warner before and lost. Been there, done that, he doesn't want to do that again. Also, since Allen is a contender for '08, why should Warner have to face him in the lower Senate -- best to wait until the stakes are higher.

I agree that as far as Dems taking the Senate it would be very nice if we could pick up a seat and dash Allen's '08 hopes, but I completely understand why Mark Warner doesn't want to go through a Senate race again.

Bayh went from Gov to Senator

before Kilgore's concession speech. :puke:

First Kilgore loses and then they have to listen to Allen speak. My heart goes out to them. :sarcasm:

Congrats to all our VA and NJ friends here! This is great!

Potts the other Repub dressed in Ind. clothing took 3,179 votes away from Kilgore.

Thank God its over, now my phone will stop ringing.

The Dem Deeds just took the lead less than 1% left to count.

It was on the front page, and Kos was fawning all over Warner for 2008 prospects (while dissing Kerry, Hillary and others). I had fun reading it because I realized a lot of this stuff is about new blood, old blood. People just like fresh faces, for which they know nothing about. I threw in a couple of comments with nice things to say about Warner, and then when somebody asked about the environment and Warner, I gave a little info adding my regrets that our LAST candidate had an impeccable environmental record, and what a loss he wasn't elected. I didn't say "Kerry". Maybe I'll check back later to see if that invites snark, indifference or a friendly answer back.

And the best was the discussion about gay marriage. Everyone was worried that Warner was against gay marriage. And you know how everyone defended him? They said, "well, he has the same position as Kerry's from last year". Ha! Funny.

Kos actually joined in (this is rare) and was defending how he had never dissed Warner before (someone accused him of that). But then someone said he had dissed Kerry. Kos's answer: well, yeah, and I will continue to diss Kerry in the future.

Look, guys, this is not about issues or voting records or even biography. People on the liberal blogosphere hate Kerry for one reason and one reason only. He lost. And they don't want to lose in '08, and they perceive that if he is the Dem nominee again, we'll lose again. I really think that's what it's about plain and simple.

He does not care at all about issues. I never understood on which basis he supports people. (I think at this point it comes to who he thinks Dean and Reid will support).

Something else also happened during the primaries concerning kos. Remember when those Americans were burnt and hung in Iraq. ell Dkos ran a story and it wasn't very good. Well antway on the Kerryblog we had a link to Dkos, yep. After that story ran the campaign fecided that they would remove that link. Boy, did the Deaniacs come running and saying all kinds of stuff, just because of that decision. What Kos didn't take into mind is that the Kerry blog was that of a sitting Senator, and for him to link to a site that wrote stuff like that was not good.

I don't go to Dkos personally, I will go check out a story if someone puts a link, but that is about it. To me Kos has put himself on this pedestal and those that our easily lead eat it up. To me he is just another person behind a keyboard making his ego bigger.

Here's the interesting thing. I watched a program about the mercenaries (working for Blackwater, et al), and the real military HATES them, so in a way, this may have less to do with Kos being a Deaniac (i.e. against the war), and more to do with the fact that army types (Kos used to be in the armed forces) looking at the private contractors with suspicion.

I think it was correct to take his site off the Kerry Blog. How can Kos whine about that when he was completely out of line with that statement? I mean, I don't like the private contract trend either, but I only have sympathy for their families, and can't imagine wanting your worst enemy die of such a heinous death. Obviously, Kos was okay with it.

I remember that a few weeks ago, he had a secret plan to destroy the DLC.

It's not about Lefty Freeperism (The Democrats aren't left wing enough for me). It's about personality. I like Warner's hair better. Bulls**t like that. There really are a lot of dummies on that site who are unbelievably clueless.

On a sidenote, there was this bizarre moment where an obviously gay poster put up a picture of Warner, talking about how hot he was. Then someone posted a photo collage of Dean when he was younger (and I have to say he looked good). This (I think gay poster) said Dean was the sexiest pol he'd ever met. I was thinking of calling the troops from here to post the sexiest JK pictures they had, but by then the thread was awfully big. But I have to say, I enjoyed reading the thread itself because it was largely positive. At this point I wouldn't mind hearing positive things said about any viable candidate in '08. I am so sick of the negativity.

Oh, back to DLC. Halfway down the thread, someone mentioned why Kos was saying nice things about someone who was in the DLC. Then someone said that Warner had had some issues with the DLC. Then someone else said -- oh, it's not if their name is associated with the DLC, it's the DLC's strategy of losing elections. I mean, I'm beginning to wonder how liberal the folks on dailykos are. What you can say about them is that they're against the Iraq War and mostly liberal on the social issues. But many of them strike me as quite DLC conservative on economic issues. Since many of the kids there are young, I can tell you that although Democratic, a lot of them have had undue influence on them from the Reagan years.

Of course, we have the classic excuse each time they want to support somebody from the DLC (he had problems: we heard it for Dean, for Edwards, ...). As Warner will no more be elected, he is going to disappear from the lists on the DLC website and we will hear he left the DLC. (any excuse is good).

I think that you are right many of them are young. A few were really liberal, but at some point, kos has thrown out some of the conspiracy theorists because he wanted his site to be "respectable" and other were bothered by the fact that he was supporting so strongly Casey and Langevin (RI). So it is possible that most of those who stay are more "insurgent" type than "progressive" types.