Posted on 12/18/2013 9:42:19 AM PST by GIdget2004
State Sen. Mark D. Obenshain(R) will concede the race for Virginia attorney general to Democrat Mark R. Herring on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Obenshain’s announcement will put an end to a drawn-out contest that, on election night, was the closest statewide election in history. Obenshain campaign spokesman Paul Logan did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Herring had significantly widened his slim lead over Obenshain in a statewide recount that began Monday and was scheduled to finish on Wednesday.
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The real job of the GOPe is to maintain the pretense that there is actual opposition to the Dem agenda, without actually giving serious opposition.
Demography is destiny. 30% of Fairfax County is foreign-born compared to 15% in 1990. VA is changing and will become more and more Democrat due to immigration and the domestic migration of liberals to NoVA to be around the honey pot called Washington DC. You can kiss VA off in Presidential elections. We have reached the tipping point.
The immigrants and people on food stamps are producing more chillun, than the working stiffs and republicans. So socialism will grow with time.
Vote fraud will never be stopped until Republicans are seen to benefit from it.
The sheeple seem to love their Marxist owners.
1) The WaPo saying it doesn’t make it so.
2) The Republicans have got to stop going along with a simple re-counting and go after illegal voting (i.e., by felons in or out of lockup, identity thieves, non-citizens, multi-state voters, etc. If less than 0.1% of the Dem’s vote totals are illegitimate, I would be astounded. Supposedly the court recognized Obenshain’s right to review the poll books. Take the records from a suspect area, divide them up among volunteers, and do Lexis/Nexus and other internet searches on current addresses, felony convictions, etc. To concede without doing this would be a terrible thing.
The laws of statistics dictate that the partisan winning percentage over many recount elections should approach 50%.
If one side leads by more than a few percentage points over many elections, then there definitely is partisan-based fraud occurring.
I wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of all close elections requiring a recount and what the final result was.
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably found some uncounted Dem votes in the trunk of a car.
It’s official, VA is lost. And to top it off, the eGOP will nominate a notorious RINO to run against Mark Warner. Just peachy - that’ll surely get the conservative base to turn out. /s
We’re screwed down here in Virginia by the influx of liberals and government types in New South Maryland (AKA NOVA).
The increase in the lead is apparently mostly due to officials uncovering undervotes in heavily Democratic areas like Fairfax County, which use paper ballots. In a somewhat ironic twist, most of the redder jurisdictions in Virginia rely on electronic voting machines that leave no paper trail for individual votes, so there simply weren’t undervotes to be discovered there.
You nailed it!
Of course they did, that is why she didn't understand the issues.
With key members of the Virginia GOP-e publicly backing the Democrats, it’s no wonder that Obenshain lost in what should have been a sizeable victory for him. We’ll never know how many Republican voters simply stayed home because of all the trash talking from the powers that be who were intent to defeat Ken Cuccinelli for his having dared to take on their favoured RINO in the primary. The b**tards all need to be purged.
“...residing in just three Northern counties: Fairfax, Loudon, and Arlington.”
Minnesota, is surprisingly very much like Virginia.
Three counties (Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis) pretty much dictate how a statewide election is gonna go.
The interesting part about Northern Virginia is that by the standards of the last 40 years, it was the GOP part of the state.
The Valley, a good chunk of the Tidewater and the Southside all voted Dem - albeit that some of the Dems elected were pretty conservative.
Virginia is permanently a Blue State - bump for later........
They cheated.
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