This morning the State Board of Elections report Reeves with 22,536 (50.01%) and Houck with 22,450 (49.82%) and 70 write-ins. Reeves won all areas (often not by much) except the City of Fredericksburg where he only got 37.23%. Is the City really that liberal or was it the college (MW)?
Fredericksburg has a VA Rail Station so lots of rich (thank you, tax payers) govt workers from DC and limousine lib dims...
I was surprised by the City of Fredericksburg returns, too. If anything, I’d have thought the Charlottesville area would have been more favorable to Houck. It might just be that Fredericksburg has grown enormously over the past few years since the VRE made commuting from there to DC more feasible. I.e., you have more govt workers now in F’burg. Only thing I can come up with.
This is an auto-recount unless Houck were to decline, like George Allen did in ‘06. We’ll see how that goes, but if F’burg is the strongest area of support, not sure how they come up with boxes of ballots in the back of someone’s car.