Tim Kaine Defeats George Allen In Virginia Senate Race
Source: TPM
Democrat Tim Kaine defeated Republican George Allen on Tuesday night in a close and widely watched Senate contest in Virginia.
CBS News and NBC called the race for Kaine, a former governor of Virginia and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He ran as a pragmatic problem-solver in the important swing state and painted Allen as an ideologue wedded to the tea party.
Ive called Tim and congratulated him, Allen told his supporters during his concession speech, as he thanked them. We still remain friends personally and thats an important thing. Ive congratulated him and pledged my support as he takes on the task of (representing the people of Virginia). It has been a long and difficult campaign, he said. Its also been a joyful one.
Kaine will replace retiring one-term Sen. Jim Webb (D). Allen is a former Virginia senator and governor.
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PossumSqueezins
(184 posts)That's all. Just macaca.
That really says it all.
Scairp
(2,749 posts)Well, we CAN hope can't we?
The Wizard
(12,551 posts)after the founder of the Klan gets the boot.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,212 posts)Good riddance! Go Kaine!
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Macaca go home!!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)And we worked incredibly hard in VA to make sure people there remembered how well Kaine served them as governor.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Aristus
(66,469 posts)I'd still despise the motherfucker. Goodbye for good, I hope, to that shit-for-brains fuckbasket...
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Kaine is brilliant!
TheDonkey
(8,911 posts)to attack him for that.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)he recited a list of five issues and asked those of us on the call to vote for the one that was most important to us.
The last one he mentioned was women's rights/civil rights. It won by a landslide.
I feel good.