At 2:31, with 99.67 returns in (don't know about absentee or provisional votes), it was W:49.56 and A:49.24

My math stinks (and my highschool teacher told me so. Repeatedly), but, to me, it still looks short of the required half point at which the loser will have to pay for the recount (instead of the state). And you can bet your cowboy-boot spurs that Allen is going to cry foul and demand a recount if he can get it for free. He may even request it if he has to pay for it himself.

Of course it's good that Webb has announced victory, early; it's much better than announcing a premature "concede" (thinking back to some prex elections ). But, it still doesn't make it so. Nor will living in a make-belive bubble, a la Repubs...

7720 votes difference, 2331898 total votes Webb won by a 0.331% difference. The recount will be paid for by the state.

Won't Bob McDonnell be in charge of it? That bothers me already.

Dems need eagle eyes out there, watching EVERY SINGLE vote count, making sure that what's on the SBE site right now doesn't change too much, doesn't move in Allen's favor in a way that is suspicious, questionable, wrong, etc. 

He won.

Congratulations Jim Webb!!!!!

and to every one who worked so hard to help him!!!!!

There is no audit trail in virginia for most precincts because most of virginia's touch screens choosing counties deliberately chose convenience over validity.  A recount of the electronic machines is pretty trivial without a paper trail, and mostly amounts to a null-op or no-op in computer terms.