Posted on 11/06/2008 4:27:03 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Her re-election chances resting on uncounted absentee ballots, Rep. Thelma Drake, R-2nd, has joined the McCain-Palin campaign in a lawsuit seeking to count absentee ballots by military personnel serving overseas.
Drake, a Republican, trails Democrat Glenn C. Nye III by 7,916 votes in the district in and around Virginia Beach. Nye has claimed victory, but Drake has not conceded because she says the count of the district's 28,000 absentee ballots continued yesterday.
Meanwhile in the 5th Congressional District, Democrat Tom S.P. Perriello, who started the day leading Republican Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. by 31 votes, had a 639-vote lead by the end of the day after post-election canvassing by local electoral boards. At one point during the day Perriello was up by 832 votes.
A recount is likely because the margin is still below the 1 percent threshold that allows the trailing candidate to seek a recount.
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Wishing Thelma good luck!
I’m sickened if Goode loses. He was one of the few in Congress to speak out forcefully against the Mohammadan threat to our nation. The rodents, CAIR, and the other despicable ultraleft scum has been looking to take him down. Neither him nor Drake were on my radar screen to lose.
Virginia really let the Republic down.
“Virginia really let the Republic down.”
Sure did. At least the county where I live — Gloucester County — did its part for America, supporting McCain 63%-36%. We did our best here, but much of the rest of the state disappointed.
“He was one of the few in Congress to speak out forcefully against the Mohammadan threat to our nation.”
And that may end up being part of his undoing. Did you see the ad where he severely doctored a photo of his opponent to make him look Arabic (or at least dark and foreign) when he is neither? Goode finally quietly pulled that ad but I think his reputation for fairness was damaged by it. He also wasted a lot of time and money trying to brand Perriello as a “New York lawyer,” when in fact Perriello is a native Virginian who happened to spend two years in New York. If the ads had hammered on the REAL problems with voting for Perriello instead of crap, Goode might not be facing this.
The canvas is done and Perriello is 749 voted ahead. He’s declared victory, although Goode has not conceded. I expect he’ll want a recount, but unless there’s a huge mistake or some sort of ineligible votes found, a recount is unlikely to change the result.
No, I didn’t see that ad since I’m in a neighboring state. Still, I’m very disappointed to see his loss. Virginia used to be a great state, and now it’s going to the dark side. All those years the GOP fought like hell to finally get the majority, all hijacked away by the ultraleft cancer spreading south from NOVA...
I’m not saying the substance of the ad is wrong, although some is traditionally politically slanted or half truth. No problem there. But Perriello looks nothing like this. The photo was from when he was working in Africa and had a stubble, then it was darkened considerably.
Goode in fact never attempted to defend the way the picture was treated but also kept running it. Folks in his area (I live nearby but he’s not my rep) like straight shooting. I think that if he had stuck to real issues, he’d be far ahead now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV7lxlftZwI
Well, it’s the usual M.O. to find a very unflattering pic of your opponent. He looks more Hispanic (in fact, looks like a skinnier version of the NM Governor Richardson). They probably could’ve done that entire ad MINUS the photo. The question is, was the substance of the charges false ?
“Well, it’s the usual M.O. to find a very unflattering pic of your opponent. He looks more Hispanic (in fact, looks like a skinnier version of the NM Governor Richardson). They probably could’ve done that entire ad MINUS the photo. The question is, was the substance of the charges false?”
What Goode’s ad people did to the photo was not just unflattering, it took a VERY obviously white and American looking guy and made him look otherwise. And then it was followed by a shot of Goode and his wife walking in the sunshine and dressed mostly in white. Gee, I wonder why.
The “New York lawyer,” which Goode emphasized in almost every ad, is definitely not true.
Folks from around here are not used to being in a battleground area and they are mostly used to fairly benign and positive ads. Any attacks are based solely on positions, not on altered appearances or other BS. No matter who wins in the end, it’s very safe to say it did not go over well. If Goode loses, I do think those ads cost him enough votes to make the difference.
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