While I would love to claim that my write-in candidacy affected the Virginia Senate race, let’s be realistic:
Allen easily won rural and suburban areas, while Webb won big in vote-rich Northern Virginia.
Glenda Gail Parker of Alexandria, running as an Independent Green Party candidate, was picking up 1 percent of the vote.
It wasn’t me, folks.
I’m just looking forward to going to the VA election page and seeing how many votes I got.
One from me.
There were 2,332 write in votes (0.10%) but I don’t see a breakdown of who they were for
2,332 is an unusually high number of write-in votes. You go girl! Yourish in ’08!
chsw
The number are available at
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm
You can even view by county or city (Richmond county only had 2 write-in votes for senator), but, as Don said, I don’t see anywhere where the list the names of the write-ins.
James, the City of Richmond had 58 write-in votes for senator. Rural Richmond County, which is not near the City of Richmond strangely enough, had 2 write-in votes for senator. My wife and I produced two of the 177 write-in votes for senator in Chesterfield County, both for Ms. Yourish.
Yes, and Richmond City had 55 write-in votes, one of which was mine.
Hey… I’m in NJ… I just assumed that Richmond City was in Richmond County. Here in NJ, Cape May is in Cape May County; Somerset is in Somerset County (just don’t ask about Warren & Warren County)
Also, I alerted my sister, who lives with her family near Dulles Airport (They used to be in Sterling, but they’ve moved to the next town over, whose name I don’t remember), about your campaign. I have no idea if they acted upon it.
So the Federal bureaucrats living in Virginia went for Webb?
The Dems ran a lot of blue dog conservative types in this election in order to win. They will now be coopted into the usual Democratic foolishness in order to get good committee assignments and the other perks of office they will quickly become accustomed to. The voters who liked their message this time around will discover them moving further and further to the left over time. Meanwhile such people in the Congress will allow the senior Dems to arrange an American defeat in the War on the Islamist terrorists, starting by cutting and running from Iraq.
The whole Dem foreign policy position for years now has been to offload American responsibilities to someone, anyone, just so long as we do not have to shoulder them any more. But there is no one else. It looks like we are going to confirm Osama’s opinion about the cravenness of America and Americans in general. Vietnam, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, the betrayal of the Shi’a in Iraq in 1991, now will Iraq and Afghanistan 2007 join the list?
The whole Dem foreign policy position for years now has been to offload American responsibilities to someone, anyone, just so long as we do not have to shoulder them any more.
That statement is wholy unsupported by the facts. Did we offload our responsibilites in Somalia? Bosnia? And who has offloaded our responsibilities in Danfur?
On the other hand, the Republican foreign policy position has been to be the world’s neighborhood bully — a position that only fosters fear & hatred of us among the other countries (so that no one wants to work with us, only against us), instead of the respect that the democratic policies foster (where some countries would want to work with us)
In other words, there may be no one left who want to work with you, but there are plenty who will be willing to work with us.
As for confirming Osama’s opinions, that was already handled by GWB. Bin Laden had made it clear before & after 9/11 that his goal was the removal of US troops from Saudi Arabia. Bush granted from that favor in 2003, proving that terrorism works.