The Most Exciting Race of the Night: Virginia
Forget Ohio. Forget Florida. What about Virginia?
Now there’s a swing state. Virginia has been switching between McCain and Obama as long as I’ve been watching it, and both are currently at 50% with Obama leading on some sources and McCain on others. The numbers between the two seem to be hovering somewhere around 10,000 – 30,000 depending on where you’re looking.
Out of many other states, I’ll be highly interested to see what happens in Virginia. It’s going to be close, no doubt about it. I’m just not sure any win by Mark Warner can tell what will happen here.
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Although Virginia may be a close swing state, in past elections Florida has been key in winning the presidential election. Newsy.com claimed Obama had a lead in Florida before election day, but McCain was surging causing the gap to close. I agree Virginia may be more interesting to watch. However, the Sunshine state has a history of making the biggest difference.
Virginia was the most exciting for me, because it is a state that was red just a few short years ago, but has now gone completely blue.
Also, I spent the last 4 days down there campaigning with the Obama/Warner folks, so its rewarding to see it in the win column!
Came back to Md to see that O and Warner had won big.
Presidential race was 2% for Obama difference – 120K votes
right now house races in VA is 5 red to 4 blue.
Tilted blue yes – completely? hardly.
OK I’ll concede it isn’t completely blue- I was counting the presidency, the 2 Senate seats and the governorship. Close enough!
The most disappointing results so far for me:
Murtha’s win.
Sununu’s loss.
Oh, and I forgot to add:
Stevens’ apparent win
And, if Coleman doesn’t hold on to his lead, that will be a shame too- but hopefully that one will turn out OK.
I was disappointed that Michele Bachmann was reelected.