2008 Congressional Race: Perriello appears to win!
We may have to wait until the dust settles, but for all intents and purposes, it seems as if Tom Perriello has defeated Virgil Goode for the Fifth District congressional seat.
We may have to wait until the dust settles, but for all intents and purposes, it seems as if Tom Perriello has defeated Virgil Goode for the Fifth District congressional seat.
We may have to wait until the dust settles, but for all intents and purposes, it seems as if Tom Perriello has defeated Virgil Goode for the Fifth District congressional seat.
[UPDATED 2:17am] Just back from the Gravity Lounge, where Tom Perriello and the C-ville Dems cheered the great news tonight in Virginia.
Tom Perriello has come a long way, literally and figuratively, in the past two and a half months. While he’s racked up the mileage traveling the expansive Fifth Congressional District in his bid to unseat six-term incumbent Virgil Goode, he has also closed a 34 point gap in mid-August to a mere three points, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted this weekend with a margin of sampling error of 4 points.
The Washington Post’s “Comics Riffs” blog is reporting that Garry Trudeau has drawn a cartoon for Wednesday presuming an Obama victory.
Tomorrow is election day and the Commonwealth is still up for grabs. The latest polls reveal that Barack Obama has a single digit lead over John McCain.
Add your political anthems and campaign songs today, music lovers. Tomorrow’s going to bring some ch-ch-ch-changes…
For the next 24 hours, C-VILLE will be posting regularly to this blog on the 2008 election as voters head to the polls and the state tallies those ballots.
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The UVA football team, which last year set an NCAA record by winning five games by 2 or fewer points, suffered a heartbreaking run-in with the law of averages today, losing at home in overtime to Miami, 24-17.
Check out this editorial from the Lynchburg News Advance. If it doesn’t make you feel shocked by the yawning divide between the Charlottesville bubble and most of the rest of Virginia, you either commute from outer Fluvanna or you’re a tougher bird than I am.