Oh, what a night!
In a clean sweep of the statewide offices, Republicans Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling, and Ken Cuccinelli have won their respective races for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General by crushing margins, roughly 20 percentage points. This is excellent enough news on its own, but there’s more for we residents of Loudoun County. That clean sweep extended to the House of Delegates races with GOP victories in the 13th, 32nd, 33rd, 67th, and 86th Districts.
Of special note to me, as longtime readers will know, is the butt-whuppin’ victory of Tag Greason over incumbent Dave Poisson in the 32nd. Poisson ran a dirty campaign, relying on surrogates and deceptions as his tools, completely running from his own record (with good reason.) The voters of the 32nd saw right through that nonsense and handed Greason a 57% – 42% win over Poisson.
I could not be more pleased with the results here in Virginia tonight. I’ve been up since 04:45 this morning, however, and this late-night partying thing is a dance for the young! I’m headed to spend some time with my wife before hittin’ the hay. I’ll write more about this all later tomorrow. If you’re interested in the scores, check out this State Board of Elections site.
For now, I’d like to offer my hearty congrats to our victorious Republican ticket!
November 3rd, 2009
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ricjames |
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The polls opened up at 6:00 this morning here in Virginia and I can tell you from direct observation in Loudoun County that it was early, dark, foggy, and cold! While the turnout seems light at present the energy level among those coming to vote was fairly high, particularly for we Republicans. Our coverage for the polling locations looks pretty good. I’ll leave it to the end of the day for the final reporting but it sure seems to me that the Dem coverage of the polls is pretty light. When I went to vote this morning at my polling location there were no Democrat poll workers at all.
Early this morning at the Algonkian Elementary polling location (where I’m working today) John Geddie of the Loudoun Independent showed up. I had a chat with him and he offered to take a vid of me with a message for the voters. It was pretty dark out there but I think it turned out well. Have a look here and scroll down to the 6:00 am updates – I’m down there with the early-bird stuff.
More to come later…
Update: It’s almost 2:00 pm here and we’re past the ½-way point. Energy among the Republican volunteers is high and the people heading into the polls appear to be drawn to our message. Time will, of course, tell.
The day started off with Mary Beth Greason at my polling location and Tag Greason himself is there as I type this update. I have a feeling it’s going to be a great day!
Update 2: The polls have now closed and we await the results. The State Board of Elections has a wonderful map tool up and running and it’s showing the results as they come in. Check it out here. I am headed down to The Dock in Lansdowne to join with my fellow volunteers for an evening we hope is going to be fun. I’ll post more later.
November 3rd, 2009
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ricjames |
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