The dust has apparently settled. With a 745-vote lead, Tom Perriello, Democratic candidate for the Fifth District Congressional seat, has declared victory over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode.
With the results of the Falls Church Voter Turnout revealed, Charlottesville has come up short. Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris conceded defeat to its Falls Church counterpart.
Artistic Director Richard Herskowitz may be on his way out, but the festival is already hard at work attracting film academics.
Ten minutes before midnight on election day, November 4, Danville Registrar Peggy Petty got the only numbers she was missing from the City of Danville precincts. Overall, the office was in pretty good shape.
As votes are being corrected and provisional ballots examined by election boards across the Fifth District, the underdog candidate for the congressional seat can breathe a little easier. For now.
McCain’s concession speech was indeed gracious, and had he acted more like that throughout the campaign, I think the race would have been closer.
The Fifth District congressional race between 12-year incumbent Virgil Goode and challenger Tom Perriello could be headed to a recount.
Both Tom Perriello and Virgil Goode, competitors for the Fifth District congressional seat who are, as of this minute, separated by 145 votes, said at press conferences this morning that they are confident that they will prevail.
When I began this blog in its current form, a couple weeks after my coverage of the Democratic National Convention, I half expected it to be an exercise in masochism. McCain and Palin were riding high in the polls following her hard-edged acceptance speech at the RNC.
At around 1:45pm today, outside a conference room at the Albemarle County Office Extension on Fifth Street, a group of about five people strategized while the Albemarle County Registrar’s Office was on lunch break.