High Turnout Reported in Va. Senate Race ~~ Good sign...

Las Vegas Sun ^ | November 07, 2006 at 9:50:11 PST | BOB LEWIS ASSOCIATED PRESS

[snarkytart]

There is always high turnout in Northern Virginia, I lived there for 20 years. They are highly educated voters with professional jobs that allow them to take their time voting. They are also overwhelmingly Democrats except for a handful of GOP precincts. So it tells me nothing that there is heavy turnout in northern Virginia. I want to know about the turnout in Richmond, Norfolk, and Roanoke.
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oh, okay.

Then it is good news for Allen, if the Roanoke election worker quoted is accurate.

[Gulf War One]

I agree entirely with your assessment. NoVA heavy turnout is not necessarily good for us at all. People close to Webb tell me he has to have a heavy NoVA turnout.

[HitmanLV]

To be completely fair, that is an accurate sentence.

[Darnright]

>Nothing sexier than two ugly white guys mud wrestling. <

Hey, quit talking about Corker and Ford like that!

[Lando Lincoln]

Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat. He said something to the effect, "I didn't leave my party, it left me." And, he switched.

Lando

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well...we have Arnoold out here in Kalifornia...married to the Kennedy Clan...but he was better than the alternative....

[nina0113]

I'm in a rural precinct - I was voter 172 in the A - L line at 8:30 this morning. There are ~3200 registered voters in my precinct. In 04 I took off to work the polls, voted first and turnout in the AM was much lighter than this.

[RockinRight]

Good News!

Wonder how Steele is doing in Maryland?

[Dubya-M-Dees]

I have voted in my tiny little precinct in Palmyra, Virginia (Fluvanna County) for years. I have never seen a turnout like this one before. This is our first time with electronic voting machines, but it was going smoothly. IDs were checked at the polling station YAAAAHHH!!!

[brothers4thID]

6 or 7 machines in my precint and line of 5 people ahead of me at 11:50am today in Northern VA. Webb volunteer outside asked my 4 year old if he was voting. I glared at him and told him not to encourage voter fraud.

[RexBeach]

I think 82% is a low number.

92% of the Washington press corps voted for Bubba in 1992.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Are you in Northern Virginia and is this a predominant Republican area?

Just curious...i am not familiar with Virginia.

[Parley Baer]

Just voted in California. This is a Republican district. It was also the first time in memory I had to wait in line for a voting booth. This was 10:00am. Talked to the prescient workers and it has been very busy all morning. Very good for Republicans.

[albie]

My 12 year old daughter and a friend were distributing Repub Sample Ballots at a poll this morning in Richmond, VA. She handed one man a sample ballot and he said "you girls really shouldn't be here, doing this", my daughter said "where should I be, at home, unemployed eating government cheese?" What a girl!!!

[savedbygrace]

Republican Sen. George Allen, bedeviled by his own mistakes and an unpopular president, battled for his political life Tuesday against Jim Webb, whose disgust with the GOP made him a Democrat.

AP = Always Pimping

[petitfour]

Ronald Reagan is a fine example of a life-long Democrat who turned Republican. I'm sure glad he made the change. He used to say something like, "I didn't leave the Democrat party. The party left me."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Give that girl a Gold Star...

[Nascardude]

Live in Loudoun County. I voted just now. There were only 2 people in the line ahead of me. Didn't have to wait at all. There was nobody there giving out Democrat Sample Ballots. There was a Republican there though. I voted for Allen, Wolf, and yes to the marriage amendment. I voted No on all the bond issues with the exception of the one for improving the highways.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Weather info:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the info....I am pulling for Allen.