I'm not being snarky.  I like him, wanted him to win in 2005, and, if he's the only Dem who runs next year, I'll support him without reservation.  Are any other Dem names surfacing for next year's race?

on the Phoenix Project. Now, he's "tanned, rested and ready" so to speak, to finish the job he started in 2005 and turn his district "blue" for good.

Wow!  It's hard to imagine he'll be challenged from the left in a primary.  Thanks to you for delivering the good news about Werkheiser and thanks to Werkheiser himself for throwing his hat in the ring again.  I look forward to helping make NoVA the VA equivalent of New England and de-Republicanize the NoVA delegation.

I asked Waldo about this as well when it came to Bell's district, do thees numbers include absentee ballots?  I bet the margin is even wider when you factor in those who voted absentee.  

I don't know of a way to break out absentee ballots by precinct.

That at some point soon after the results are certified the votes can/will be distributed backwards to the districts/precincts they belong to.... apparently this is the last step of the process and it is done as part of updating the data base to reflect who voted and where they voted, obviously not how they voted.

what Used2bneutral heard they will do.  As I said, I would guess that McCain lost by an even larger margin than this margin suggests when all of the votes of all of the voters who live in this district but voted absentee are considered.  Judging my the absentee tallies, it appears that Obama did even better among absentee voters than he did with Election Day voters.  

If the Va GOP plans to continue down their same path (as it appears they will judging by some GOP chairs' statements), then we have a lot to look forward to.  Here in the Charlottesville area, Bell's district was much more Democratic than past years.  I think Obama lost by a very small margin (if there was some way to factor in absentee, I would guess the calculation would show that he won) in the 58th, but Perriello won by a relatively large margin.  We now have a member from the BOS who is considering making a run against Bell and pushing the transportation issue.  The 58th is populated by thousands who commute into Charlottesville everyday and deal with the bottlenecks 29 North and 250 East.  A rough estimate shows that the 59th was very close as well, but looks to have gone to Obama.  Again, it looks like Perriello ran even stronger than Obama did there.  I think with some well funded, strong Democratic candidates we can pick up two seats in the HOD here in the Charlottesville area alone.  It looks like you all have several opportunities up there in NVOA.  The Henrico, VA Beach, and Chesapeake areas also provide the Democrats with some pickup opportunities as well.  2009 should be a another good year for Virginia Democrats.