Category: National

An early night?

It's beginning to look like it. Here at NPR HQ, the folks have Obama at 200 EVs to 76 for McCain. This means that with California (55), Oregon (7) and Washington (11), Obama gets over  270. And he does it without even getting the results from Virginia. CNN shows Obama with 194 EVs, MSNBC has … Continue reading An early night? →

Fox calls it for Kay Hagan

Fox News has just called the NC Senate race for Kay Hagan, a pretty significant upset here. I guess essentially calling someone an atheist just doesn't fly, even in the Bible Belt.

More poll closings

At 7:30pm, the polls closed in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. Coming up at 8pm will be 16 more states, representing 171 electoral votes. Four of those states favor McCain, a couple - Florida and Missouri - are considered toss ups, and the remaining 10 states all favor Obama. Expect some more calls in … Continue reading More poll closings →

Polls closed – now the waiting begins

It's 7:00pm and the polls in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and VA have just closed. These six states represent 58 electoral votes, but all eyes are on Indiana and Virginia. Indiana went for the Republican candidate in all four of the last elections. Virginia, as we all know, has not voted for a … Continue reading Polls closed – now the waiting begins →

First blog from NPR

Just arrived at the NPR HQ and took a quick shot of other early arrivals. Right now, a lot of the bloggers in the room are from NPR - at least most of the guys 🙂 On a local note - I see that there was an equipment problem this morning in Chesapeake. Fortunately, the … Continue reading First blog from NPR →

Election Day November 4, 2008

There's not much left to be said. The only thing left to do is get out and vote! History will be made today. There is no doubt about that. Regardless of your political persuasion, we will be witnesses to a first. Interest in this election is so high that we are looking at record turnout … Continue reading Election Day November 4, 2008 →

Warner rally in Norfolk

Mark Warner, the soon-to-be junior Senator from Virginia, held a campaign rally this morning at the Ted Constant Center at ODU. In this first video are remarks from Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim, 3rd CD Congressman Bobby Scott, and 2nd CD candidate Glenn Nye. This next video has remarks by Governor Tim Kaine. Finally, here's the … Continue reading Warner rally in Norfolk →

Election night plans

I'm getting some emails regarding plans for Election Night throughout the Commonwealth. Virginia Beach - Sponsored by the VBCDC - Guadalajara, Town Center, 4611 Columbus St., 7:30pm Norfolk - Sponsored by the NCDC - Granby Theater, 421 Granby St., 7:30pm, RSVP Richmond - Sponsored by the DPVA - Toad's Place, 140 Virginia St., 7:30pm NoVA … Continue reading Election night plans →

HRC at GMU

I went to George Mason Sunday for a rally for Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton. I understand that there were about 3,000 people there. Below is a brief video clip of the crowd. (The VIP section was to the side of the stage, which is why I didn't take more video.) We arrived early and … Continue reading HRC at GMU →