Look fantastic for us: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25...

They look good but we'll see how that translates to real votes this year.

for Warner as well as Obama.

We'll see.

And I hope he didn't jinx us.

Just watched Wilder on MSNBC. He seems very relaxed about the vote in VA.

He did. The exit polls look good.

I had the impression the two kids handing out sample ballots for the republicans were being paid.  They didn't appear to have their hearts in the activity but they were dedicated just the same.  We had an abundance of volunteers all over the place.  An ouch for them.

I wouldn't be surprised. Which is sad :( I keep freaking when I see VA votes now but I have to remember what has come in!

When Webb was running I had to stay up until the wee hours of the morning to find out.

Let's hope that we can project Obama's victory early tonight.

Yeah we were unsure of the Webb win for awhile. I hope tonight is not that way. However, I will take a win - even a close one.

That wasn't in my win column, but Obama seems to be doing well there in very conservative counties.

Lake County and Indy have yet to report, and Obama is keeping it close.

Does anyone know if these exit polls include early voter results or not?  I would assume they would take that into consideration.

Guys, I think we have Indiania.  I am comparing some of the counties that are already in and comparing them to 2004.  One example is Cass County.  Cass voted 68 percent for Bush.  This year it is only 53 percent McCain.

1472 obama{Moran got 1474!)
780 Mccain

1655 for Warner

LOOKS LIKE no ticket spliting from Obama
and   republicans split for warner

Anyone have a link for a text version of the SBE site? I'm on a very weak wi-fi connection at a party, can't get it to load...

having withdrawal symptoms

Try this

we haave data!

From Hotline:

"In the Hotline battleground of VA, exit polls show:
- Obama leading men by 6% and women by 12%"

Ummm...what genders does that leave for McCain?

Don't ask!

That's the real battleground ;-)

I am hoping they call in in a couple of minutes...

I'm interested in how my neighborhood voted. Is the SBE providing those as they come in or do I have to wait until a complete breakdown is published?

sbe site broken down by district and on down towards voting place
https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virg...

...

My results I will be posting tonight are from NBC.

So, I tend to think they aren't going to call something unless they are super-confident in the data.

The PA votes aren't in but exit polls must be very strong for Obama for NPR/NBC to call it.

I hope this holds. It needs to.

NBC Calls PA for Obama!

And it looks like my county of Polk County.  Unreal - this county is solid Republican.  Well, at least it use to be.

I live on the I-4 corridor and proud to say that Democrats seem to be turning it blue.

Really?  There is barely any of the vote in!  This is odd, since they should wait until some of the vote comes in.  I am excited, but I'd love to see some actual numbers come in.  We don't want another Florida 2000.  I am still cautiously optimistic.  I like what I see so far.

The (Grand Old) Party's over!

is Obama Going to take Va or what?

NoVA hasn't reported yet.

There is a bright side to the sad ending for Obama's grandmother.  Her absentee ballot will count according to officials in Honolulu.

I lived 5 years in Honolulu - and family is probably the most important part of the culture there.  Anyone who doesn't think Obama is a strong family man doesn't understand the culture of Hawaii.

Does anyone know if people are still voting in Virginia due to lines at 7PM?  

I am sure they are.

The cases were reported in the city of Richmond, Fairfax County and Fauquier County, according to Nancy Rodrigues, Virginia's executive secretary of the Board of Elections.

In once case she said the "over presentation of law enforcement" at one polling location was called in. In another case someone was playing a recording of right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh loud enough to violate the no campaigning within 300 feet of a voting location.

Also I heard earlier lines were 4 to 7 hours waiting time so from 7 to at least 2am if people don;t leave the lines!

Male
  Obama:49
  McCain:49
Female
  Obama:50
  McCain:48

Looks like the women may prevail here in Florida, assuming the votes turn out the same as exit polls.  This one may be a nail-biter.

But, it will not matter if PA and VA go to Obama.  I hope we gain some seats in the house at least.

Are we having fun yet?

CBS calls NC for Hagan.

Eliabeth is coming home ;-)

We gave her the "other" blue pill.  Democrat blue.  

When they refused to scren donors for HIV. Instead of instituting screening, ARC hired the wife of a powerful Senator. The ARC heads in Japan, Germany, and Canada went to jail. She kept the Americans out of prison.

As you pointed out Chesterfield was much tighter than in 04, King And Queen and a number of rural counties are going Obama.. counties that went for Allen..

I think thats a call for this state.. because I can only assume NOVA, Richmond and Tidewater will break Obama large.

So let me be the first to call it.. Virginia is BLUE... !! OBAMA WINS Virginia !!!

Charles

See my latest update.

Well placed.

4 precincts in Fairfax were in about 5 minutes ago, I compared them to 2004.

#113 Oak Hill
  2008:  Obama 761 - McCain 684  (52.15% - 46.88%)
  2004:  Kerry 789 - Bush 751 (50.5% - 48.1%)
  Improvement: 2.87%

#120 Sideburn
  2008:  Obama 1047 - McCain 1167 (46.95% - 52.33%)
  2004:  Kerry  950 - Bush 1308 (41.7% - 57.4%)
  Improvement: 10.32%

#218 Vienna #6
  2008:  Obama 877 - McCain 490 (63.45% - 35.45%)
  2004:  Kerry 824 - Bush 544 (59.5% - 39.2%)
  Improvement: 7.7%

#726 Magarity
  2008:  Obama 1446 - McCain 790 (63.92% - 34.92%)
  2004:  Kerry 1276 - Bush 857 (59.2% - 39.7)
  Improvement: 9.5%

Bush beat Kerry by 9 - so we need to have an improvement of 10% across the board and we're just not seeing that with the first four precincts reported in.

Note - I believe the in person absentees will get counted in their own "precinct" so if those went very heavily for Obama they could provide a margin.
 

moved from "too early to call" to "too close to call."  

And absentees are that last 1% that hasn't been counted yet.

We saw this in the Webb campaign while watching the polls. THe last things to post are the absentees and early votes. Those account for that irritating 1-3% of the vote. They have thier own "precinct" in some larger districts. In some they are added to the precinct they were from "later" (which is what was the hold up on the Webb race.. so if Chesterfield is any indication a full 20-30% of the vote is absentee which is why the voting day number looks lower than last time.

Trust me Virginia iBlue.. we can all relax now.. Its not going to be even as close as the Webb race.. I predict Obama by a full 3%.

Charles

Looks like it is over for McCain.  All roads are closed, I believe.

All I'm waitng for is to see a red state called for Obama

me too.

OK it was by me.. but in 3 election cycles of watching the numbers return I havent been wrong yet. :) BTW I called it for Webb about an hour before Webb took the stage..

Now if someone would pay me for my insight ;)

Charles

that you are right.  

charles, don't make me too excited and then let me down!!!!

My birthplace....

Obama/McCain/Barr/Pct of total
Male 41 56 3 46
Female 54 44 1 54

Men are going heavy for McCain, with a 15% lead in exit polls.  BUT women are going heavy Obama with a 10% lead.  If it were 50/50 men and women it would be an easy McCain win.  BUT women outnumber men by 8%.

Georgia may be a close one.

I still think it will be close.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25...

Note how much is blue.. I can tell you it wasnt this blue in 06'... not at this point in the returns anyway.

I am very curious about SC.. Its looks interesting.. They must know somethign though tehy called it McCain so early. But I wonder if the african american vote could surprise everyone an dhave it turn SC at the last minute when the bigger towns come in..  

at least it looks like Nye is thumping on thelma D.

Look at how many McCain-Perriello supporters there are.  We may pull this one off.

lol.  Poor McCain.  That should have been an easy one for him.

 ;)

oh man. that is bad.

lol

+2 more Senators.  Yay democracy!

With 61% of the vote in, it's McConnell 51%, Lunsford 49%.  Yowza!

If I am reading the elections website correctly, there are NO results in yet for the City of Richmond (District 7).  I would bet money it goes for Obama so this will hopefully make up some ground.

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I'll bet alot of scores will be settled tonight and tomorrow in a handful of countries.

Prince William, with 50% of votes in has Obama up 57-41.

Manassas City has Obama up 8, with 83% reporting.

Arlington hasn't reported yet.

Winchester has Obama up 4 with 80% reporting.

This is all but over in VA for McCain  :)

Conservative precincts in western PWC are still quiet.  The big Obama precincts are in the more liberal eastern end of the county.

Woo ha!

Virginia SBE site is crapping out though. :-(

Basically 50-50 with 86% reporting -- with Perriello ahead of Goode!

MSNBC CALLED OHIO !!

...

I think we can call him "President Elect Obama" now.  I'm not waiting for 270.

VA is next.

Feder is losing in the 10th :(

Jerry C in the 11th is up a few points, but it's closer than I expected.

What has gotten into the folks at Fox?

Joe Scarborough says there is no way McCain can win...

Tom S. P. Perriello 137,236

Virgil H. Goode, Jr. 137,012

I guess they like to be punished.  8 years of Bush and Katrina ... and they want more.

Fredericksburg Totals:

Barack Obama and Joe Biden 6,081 63.54%
John McCain and Sarah Palin 3,381 35.33%

Mark R. Warner                7,037      74.82%
James S. "Jim" Gilmore III 2,217 23.57%

Bill S. Day, Jr.                        5,154 56.70%
Robert J. "Rob" Wittman 3,773 41.51%

Precincts Reporting:
   6 of 6 (100%)

Voter Turnout:
   9,089 of 12,854 active voters (70.70%)  

Lousy music and ignoring the mandate of change (they turned off the news).

My nephew put off getting his driver's license until he was 18.  But at least when he reached that milestone, he thought he didn't have to make a second trip to get registered to vote.  He checked the box at the top of the form that said:

"INFORMATION FOR THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS:  Do you want to apply to register to vote or change your voter registration address?"

As with other checkboxes on the form, "Are you a citizen of the US," and "would like to be an organ, eye and tissue donor," no other action is requested or needed to put the request into effect.  He was so confident that he didn't doublecheck his voter registration. When he arrived at the polls at 6 am today he got an even worse wake-up call: checking the box did NOT register him to vote.

What's up with that?

Registering to vote at the DMV is a hit-or-miss proposition. In my experience, too many people who register there never make it onto the voter lists. There's definitely a disconnect between DMV and SBE/local registrars. Sorry your nephew fell into that abyss.

MSNBC just called New Mexico for Obama!!!

I know, I know, it's like the nailbiters with Kaine and Webb. But give me some encouragement here.

John in Yokohama.

Trust me.. 26% to go to report and we are down by 2,000 votes this will be no nail biter. Once Fairfax and Arlington report 90% or better.. Obama by 3%.

Charles

It will go Obama once their done counting all the redneck, racist, and old votes.  Shut up little Murtha!  ;-)

Andrea, did he still fill out a contentious ballot or whatever its called?  

I think they are primarily offered to registered voters who have been determined as ineligible rather than voters who never registered. In some FAQs, I see, "If the voter is properly registered, the ballot will be counted. If not, it will be disqualified."

This way of "motor voting" seems to lull young voters into complacency, believing they are registered.  There should be no checkbox at all rather than one that produces no results.

At present a small percentage of Fairfax County has reported. Voting is going 3 to 2 for Obama. I think a fraction of Arlington County has reported. They are going 2 to 1 for Obama.

Obama is catching McCain. The last time I checked there were only about 4000 votes between them.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20...

Told ya.. !

:)

SBE still has McCain up by about 6,000 votes with 77% reporting.

which would be more updated? i would assume sbe would be.

Obama is ahead.

You would think.. but for some reason not.

I think CNN and the main news agencies have someone in the SBE getting the numbers as the come in and calling the news agencies. Which have a ton of people on the computer. The SBE on the other hand problably inputs them slower. Seems to be about 10 minute lag..

BTW with 95% reporting - Perriello up by 700 votes.. !! Opps.. called a little too early?

BTW Virginia

85% reporting Obama up by 30,000 votes.. the 15% is primarily Fairfax..

Will CNN and MSNBC please finally call this ?

Charles

With 64 of 73 precincts reporting, Obama is up by 13,000 or so votes in PWC.  PWC was +7 for Bush four years ago.

They still have nothing posted for The City of Richmond so that should help.

The Dems in Georgia (DeKalb) are often the last to report.

Only a few people will be reading this, so now is a good time ;-)

I supported John Edwards in the primaries because I believed that this nation would not elect a minority, and I believed that Edwards more experience in national politics.

What we know now is that Americans WILL elect a minority.  Americans care about change more than experience.  And had Edwards been the nominee, that really big skeleton would have come out of the closet.

So I was wrong.  You guys who supported Obama from the start - good pick.  Well done.  This is a great time for America.  In this case, I am happy that I was wrong.

Too bad that issue went down with him. Let's do whatever necessary to keep that issue high.  If we address the needs of the poor wherever they exist, they become customers, driving improvements in the economy.

We lost a strong advocate for the poor and the working class.

Conceding right after the three West Coast state polls close, maybe? With Obama already at 200 projected EVs, he could lock it up right then and there.

only 8 percent in but he is up
i hope he wins.

CNN and MSNBC should call this already..

I think they aren't because it would basically be calling the election before the polls close in the West.

Charles

I haven't looked at the precinct by precinct for Virginia Beach city, but it's pulling in his direction.

If the absentee voting went like the other 95% he should win. He is up by 850 right now.  

CNN just pulled the project winner tag off the Goode/Perriello race..

Charles

President and Vice President
Last Reported: Nov 4 2008 10:11PM EST

Barack Obama and Joe Biden 1,332,670 49.65%
John McCain and Sarah Palin 1,322,806 49.28%

I hope so it is too close!

They called the NJ race by throwing the McCain photo in the trunk of a passing black sedan.

When Clint Cutis worked for Wang Tom Feeney asked him to write vote rigging software to rig an election in Florida. Now Feeney is going down down down!!!!!!!

Congrats

... according to the Washington Post.

Woot!

Finally in my adult lifetime, cast my first vote for McGovern in 72. Democrats carry VA!!!!!

OK it was comedy central.. but Jon Stewart Calls VA for Obama !

I am shock at what has happened in VA. It's one thing to think it - it's another for it to happen.

G'night, y'all!!!!

Fairfax County, Arlington, the cities, these locations put Obama over the top. The other locations had a different opinion. I'm an Obama supporter, but we need to have realistic opinion of Virginia.

According to CNN.

Say hi to our President Elect.

I voted for only one winning candidate... Clinton.  UNTIL TODAY...  

He won.  Kind of.

I hope you mean for president ;)

I am separated from your beautiful state by a river and not enough bridges.

This has been a roller coaster.  Great Great work everyone on helping to bring this about !!!!!!!!!

I knew they didn't want to call VA and NC until after they could call the West Coast and the election for Obama !!

BTW... Looks like the Tech Triangle is bringing Obama North Carolina too.. !!!

So what do you all think.. 378 ??

A larger margin than the 370 of 1992 or the 376 of 1996 !!!

Thank you Gov. Dean for the 50 state strategy you pushed for in 2006, and thank you President Obama for being such a great candidate !! I never thought I would see the country go Blue again.

Charles

Yes we can.  Obama wins the great state of Florida!!!

Thanks to everyone. What an overwhelming ride this has been!

2,101 up right now according to SBE...am I reading this correct?

This will be the cherry on the top for me tonight!

Walking every weekend was most certainly worth this.  My precint--my county--my state--my country.

Blue Prince William; Blue Virginia.  What could be better than this?