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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.

Nothing helps a music fan mellow out after an election likes Kings of Belmont in drag

Here’s your latest roundup of environmental news from around the web: Our local green guru gets some tough love, and an architecture prof calls out sprawl.

And we are off! The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections has reported that as of 9 am, 17,556 people had voted in the county. That is 26.1 percent of Albemarle’s registered voters. The next figure on voter turnout will be around 1pm. Stay tuned.