Take a look at who replaced Virgil Goode (R - Lunatic)

Thomas Stuart Price Perriello (born October 9, 1974 in Ivy, Virginia) is an American politician and attorney. He is the congressman-elect from the fifth district of Virginia, pulling an upset in the 2008 election over six term incumbent Virgil Goode.

From 2002-03, Perriello was special advisor to the international prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he worked with child soldiers, amputees, and local pro-democracy groups, and helped to prosecute warlords. He then became Special Advisor and spokesperson for the international prosecutor who indicted Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and helped force him from power peaceably. He has been a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice in Kosovo (2003), Darfur (2005), and Afghanistan (2007) where he worked on justice-based security strategies. Perriello has also been a fellow at The Century Foundation and consultant to the National Council of Churches of Christ. He helped to launch FaithfulAmerica.org, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and is a co-founder of DarfurGenocide.org and Avaaz.org, an international on-line community of 3.3 million members, operating in 12 languages, dedicated to building a global response to "problems without borders" such as climate change. He has also worked with the Rev. James Forbes on prophetic justice principles.

Perriello, a resident of Albemarle County, is currently a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law where he teaches a course on transitional justice. He has spent much of his career working in West Africa and the Middle East to create strategies for sustainable peace, and he was involved in the peace processes that helped end the civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. As a public entrepreneur, he has helped to launch organizations and movements focused on social justice and human rights. He is a founding partner of Res Publica (now Avaaz.org), which develops innovative solutions to global justice and security threats, and of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, which has worked since the 2004 election to help balance and expand the faith and values discourse in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perriello

This man isn't even in the House yet, and he has already made many good changes to the world. Let's all hope that Mr. Perriello has a good and long career in government and that it doesn't stop in the House.

great news--I had forgotten about that race in all the hubub