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BigGovernment: Virginia’s 3rd and 8th congressional district, for example, are among the most Democratic in the country, with a PVI score of D+20 and D+16, respectively. Woody Allen may be right when he said 90% of success is just showing up, but it is hard to show up when there is effectively no Republican party in some congressional districts.

We've definitely had some gerrymandering at the Congressional level ~ the price for that was to cut the Democrats in on a few more Senate seats than they would have gotten had they not, at the time, run the Senate.

Jim Moran's district is remarkably Democrat, and so is Bobby Scott's.

The district I'm in is so close to 50/50 it isn't funny ~ so that's how we end up with Canolli, or is it Cannolini? Guy has a funny name.

Remember that there is no party registration in VA so any registered voter can sign the petition. Virginia's 8th District includes Arlington County, parts of Fairfax County, and the independent cities of Alexandria and Falls Church.

If you look at the results of the 2010 mid terms, you will see that in the 8th District, Moran (Dem) got 116,293 to Murray's (Rep) 71,108. An independent got 2,704 votes. There are 650,000 people in the District. Getting 400 of them is no big deal especially since part of the District is in Fairfax County, the same county where Newt lives. The Fairfax County Republican committee meets about once a month. We have over 600 dues paying members. Maybe Newt or one of his campaign people should have attended one of the meetings to collect some signatures.

The the 3rd district is no different really when it comes to collecting signatures. It covers all of the City of Portsmouth, parts of the Cities of Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond, all of the counties of Charles City, New Kent, and Surry, and part of the counties of Henrico and Prince George.

2010 results: Bobby Scott (D) 114,656 70%, Chuck Smith (R) 44,488 27%, James Quigley Libertarian 2,383 2%. With close to 650,000 residents of the District, why is getting 400 signatures so difficult especially if you target Reps?