Calm the Hell down on Virginia!!!!

[livedemocarticordie]

McCain is severely underperforming in all the rural counties--louisa on (meaning doing less well than BUSH in the last election)---THAT underperformance plus the fact that college towns and Northern Virginia numbers aren't in means GOOD NEWS for OBAMA. McCain is also UNDERPERFORMING In rural counties in INDIANA!!!

[kansasblue]

1. Northern VA will swing the state BLUE.

[BlueState]

2. Thank you!

I needed to hear that.

[Quixote1818]

3. VA is ours. I am not worried at all. nt

[bluestateguy]

4. Jim Webb did not pull ahead unitl late at night in 2006

nt

[LostinVA]

6. I stayed up until 4 am, and they JUST called it after I went to sleep

[Virginia Dare]

11. Exactly, the blue counties report later than the red counties..

more votes to count.

[LostinVA]

5. My God, if he l,oses Lousia and Nelson, he'll lose VA!!!

[arcadian]

23. Hehehe, I got that.

n/t

[geekgrrl]

7. what's taking so long for the other areas to come in??? jeez!!! nt

[Virginia Dare]

12. Higher populations, more precincts...n/t

[underpants]

16. Don't kid yourself that Doug is holding the Richmond vote back

Someone ;-) did when Webb won and Richmond appeared as the decider

BTW- Virginia if I don't get another chance. I have to tell you about my hosting of a staging location. Incredible.

[Muttocracy]

14. gigantic voter turnout in cities! nt

[lynne]

8. Link to view VA results by county as they come in -

- be warned it seems to be running a bit slow.

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/07261AFC-9ED3-410F-B07D-84D014AB2C6B/Unofficial/1_l_89BE12EC-7BBF-479C-935A-9B8C51DD3524_S.shtml

[Sparkly]

9. Fairfax County, Prince William, etc. have barely started reporting. nt

[ellius101]

10. go watch CNN and the comparison maps!

Its the key. John king is comparing McCains results in red counties to Bush in 2004 and McCain is way underperforming. Obama is doing way better than Kerry. Relax!

[underpants]

15. Exactly- McCain should be KILLING in Hallifax county

on the Carolina border

What was it 32-47 or something like that?

Bad news for McCain

Thanks for pointing that out

[sofa king]

13. The swing should kick in soon.

Fairfax and Alexandria have started reporting a few results. As an example, Alexandria, with 37% in is breaking 69% for Obama. The six thousand extra votes for Obama there just cancelled out all of Rockbridge County's votes for McCain.

[sofa king]

24. And there it is.

Hey, I'd really like to thank all the fine people at DU, at TPM, at Daily Kos, who provided me enough good information that I spent this night with nary a twitch.

Of course, I also spent last night with... nary a twitch... and haven't slept since then, so I'm going to sleep.

Don't let 'em steal it this time while I'm napping.

[Honeycombe8]

17. Like a splash o'cold water on my face. Thanks...I needed that! nt

[WoodrowFan]

18. will take longer to count in the north.

Keep in mind for Virginia. Fairfax county, the heart of the blue north, added paper scantron ballots this election so election chiefs are calling in results much slower as they are learning how to tally the results with this new ballot. Our precinct took an hour longer than normal to process and Obama took 64% with 79% turnout).

[jmowreader]

22. Seventy-nine percent turnout?

Seventy-nine percent of the population do NOT get off their La-z-boys to reelect Bush.

[Ediacara]

19. I was looking at the NYT map and I thought that that may be the case

Glad to know I wasn't just dreaming!

[livedemocarticordie]

20. keep your eye on the ball

McCain is getting 52% in counties where Bush got 57 or 6o+. H can't win by underperforming in rural counties because he will lose big in Northrn VA and college towns as well..

[Bake]

21. Where the hell are the NORTHERN Va. returns????

I'm trying to be calm here.

Bake