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Out of the 127 RPAC-supported House and Senate candidates, only 9 were defeated. Click here for all election results.
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Winchester — "Jill! Jill! We got a voter for you!" 7-year-old Elizabeth Price excitedly exclaimed on Saturday as she ran toward Jill Holtzman Vogel of Upperville, the Republican candidate for the 27th District seat in the Virginia Senate. "One at a time — that’s how we’ll do it," Vogel said in response as she and former U.S. Sen. from Virginia George Allen stood at the window of Bartley’s Shoe Repair and chatted with the owner of the Loudoun Street Mall business. Allen and Holtzman Vogel were in town to kick off Holtzman Vogel’s 72-hour "Get Out the Vote" campaign prior to Tuesday’s election. Holtzman Vogel is vying for the Senate seat against Democrat Karen K. Schultz of Winchester and independent candidate Donald C. Marro of The Plains.
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Tomorrow's election won't only result in changes in the General Assembly -- it also heralds a stunning new fundraising record in state campaigns.
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NORFOLK, Nov. 4 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine went door-to-door looking for votes for Democratic candidates Sunday as top Republicans gathered for a hoedown during the final push of the most expensive campaign in history for control of the Virginia General Assembly.
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Republican state Senate candidate Richard Stuart says he's relying on old campaigning advice as Election Day draws near.
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Jeanette Rishell, is challenging incumbent Del. Jackson H. Miller, R-Manassas, for the second time in a year for the state representative seat that includes Manassas, Manassas Park and a small portion of Prince William County that borders the cities.
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Bill S. Day Jr., a 54-year-old counselor from Fauquier County, is challenging Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter, R-31st, for his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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This would be an off year for elections in Virginia except for one thing: Control of the state Senate, and the boundaries of legislative districts to be redrawn in 2011, rests on nine races that will be watched closely on Tuesday night.
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ABINGDON, Va. – For U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher and state Sen. Phil Puckett, the Democrats’ potluck supper in Washington County was only the fifth in a series of 10 campaign stops this weekend. "We’ve got three more days left, we can’t take anything for granted," Boucher said of Tuesday’s election.
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Dorothy Crenshaw of Richmond always votes when she gets the chance. "People fought and died for my right to vote," she explained Friday.
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Richmond, VA - If Democrats can win at least four of the 23 seats the Republicans now hold in the 40-member Virginia Senate in Tuesday's elections, they will have their first Senate majority in a dozen years.
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His name doesn't appear on the ballot, but Gov. Timothy M. Kaine could be a big winner or an even bigger loser in Tuesday's elections.
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After spending millions of dollars and months -- even years -- campaigning, legislative candidates will finally face the voters Tuesday. Virginians will decide all 140 legislative seats -- 100 in the House of Delegates and 40 in the Virginia Senate -- in an election that will determine whether Republicans retain power in the General Assembly or whether Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, gets a legislature friendlier to his agenda.
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There’s more at stake in Tuesday’s Virginia Senate and House of Delegates races than a possible party change in control of either chamber. Literally, there could be a geographic shift as well as a party shift if the Democrats win the Senate.
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About nine strongly contested races for the Virginia Senate are likely to hold the key Tuesday to whether Democrats win control of the 40-member body by picking up four or more seats or whether General Assembly control remains in Republican hands.
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Candidates for the Virginia General Assembly entered the final sprint yesterday toward a hard-fought election Tuesday in which two major forces are likely to determine which party controls the Senate: the resurgence of Democrats in vote-rich Northern Virginia, and the Republican advantage in the emotional debate over illegal immigration.
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The House of Delegates race between Republican incumbent Danny Marshall and Democratic challenger Adam Tomer is approaching seven figures, according to the Virginia State Board of Elections.
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The candidates in Tuesday’s General Assembly elections have spent millions of dollars on advertising and countless hours knocking on doors this year, but the most important work of the campaign comes this weekend. House and Senate candidates in Northern Virginia’s hottest races will focus on the nitty-gritty of campaign work, calling voters they think will support them Tuesday, leaving campaign literature on doorknobs and pressing the flesh in a variety of public places.
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Republican Tricia Stall and Democrat John Miller taped a television debate Friday morning that will air Sunday as their last joint appearance before voters head to the polls Tuesday. But it didn't get really interesting until the cameras switched off.
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The race between Paul Nichols and Faisal Gill decides who will fill the seat being vacated by Del. Michele B. McQuigg, R-Occoquan, who is retiring from the House of Delegates to run for Prince William clerk of the court. Gill, a Republican, and Nichols, a Democrat, are both new to the political arena and neither have held public office.
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By their own admission, neither Don Merricks nor Andy Parker are hardened politicians. But after being approached by their respective party leaders a few months ago they are now locked in a gentlemanly contest to represent the 16th District in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Richmond, VA - The first 24 days of October brought in $12.6 million for candidates in Tuesday's General Assembly election, half of it from checks of $10,000 or more.
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WINCHESTER — State Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr., R-Winchester, still has not picked a candidate to endorse in the race to fill the seat he is vacating after four terms in office.
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If money is an indicator of a hot race, the 28th state Senate district race is one of the hottest in the state.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Democrats had no plans to field a candidate in the 1st Senate District race this year against Sen. Martin E. Williams, the Republican incumbent who had supported tax increases over his 12-year career. However, their plans quickly changed after the Republican primary in June — supporting candidate John Miller when Mr. Williams was defeated by conservative Patricia B. Stall.
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Former Virginia governor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Mark Warner came to Haymarket on Thursday to praise state Sen. Charles Colgan's role in solutions to Northern Virginia's transportation problems.
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After eight terms and 32 years in office, state Sen. Chuck Colgan is facing what he calls the most challenging campaign of his political career against business owner Bob FitzSimmonds in the Manassas area’s 29th District.
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Incumbent Del. Onzlee Ware, D-Roanoke, and independent challenger Mac McCadden are steering their campaigns into the final week before Election Day. They're competing for the House of Delegates seat representing the 11th District, which covers Roanoke and part of Roanoke County.
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It's a race between stereotypes: An incumbent bankrolled by special interests facing a challenger who is financing his campaign largely out of his own pocket. But the 6th District House race between Del. Anne Crockett-Stark, R-Wytheville, and Bill Thomas, a Democrat and retired judge from Pulaski, isn't really a campaign of cardboard cutouts.
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The two candidates running to represent the 31st Senate District, which includes Arlington, Falls Church and eastern Fairfax County, could hardly be more different.
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Del. Stephen C. Shannon (D-Fairfax) says he has been campaigning like a man in a tight race: fundraising aggressively and going door-to-door six days a week in a bid to continue representing Virginia's House District 35, a seat he won in 2003. Funny, then, that his Republican opponent has raised little money, eschews door-knocking and says he has no hope of winning.
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Democratic Del. C. Charles Caputo (Fairfax) took 56 percent of the vote in 2005. He calls it a "bipartisan victory" and says moderate Republicans were key to his success. The freshman delegate said he has worked to build on that theme by tackling practical problems, such as passing a transportation funding package and working well with Republican colleagues who control the General Assembly. Caputo, 69, is counting on GOP voters to stick with him in the closely divided district that he calls "basically a 50-50 situation."
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On Tuesday, voters in Virginia's House District 49 will choose between two left-leaning candidates to represent them in Richmond: incumbent Adam P. Ebbin (D) and James Ronald Fisher of the Independent Green Party. No Republican candidate entered the race.
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Two longtime local residents with lengthy civic credentials are vying for the 34th District delegate seat recently vacated by a 40-year political veteran. The candidates are Democrat Margaret G. Vanderhye, a member of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and Republican David M. Hunt, who runs a patent company. Hunt is a former legislative aide to longtime Del. Vincent F. Callahan Jr. (R-Fairfax). The head of the powerful appropriations committee announced his retirement earlier this year.
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WINCHESTER — Shades of gray abound in the campaign tactics of candidates for Virginia’s 27th District Senate seat. The two party candidates — Democrat Karen K. Schultz of Winchester and Republican Jill Holtzman Vogel of Upperville — held press conferences on Tuesday to criticize what they view as unfair and negative campaigning by their opponent
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Newport News — A new conservative political action committee has funneled $200,000 to Republican Tricia Stall during the final days of her 1st Senate District race against Democrat John Miller.
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STAFFORD, Va. — Sen. John H. Chichester's retirement has Republicans hoping to hold the seat of the powerful lawmaker known for breaking ranks with his party's anti-tax platform and Democrats looking to gain one of four seats needed to win control of the Senate.
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Virginia's 45th District is among the safest Democratic seats in the House of Delegates. Democrat Marian Van Landingham had it for more than 20 years. In 2005, Democrat David L. Englin won easily, with 68 percent of the vote. To run as a Republican, the conventional wisdom goes, is pure folly. That's what makes this year's race so interesting.
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How to address traffic congestion is the top issue for both candidates in Fairfax County's delegate race in District 40. But although the two candidates, Del. Timothy D. Hugo (R) and challenger Rex A. Simmons (D) agree that more needs to be done for Northern Virginia commuters, they differ widely on how they would pay for transportation improvements.
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Of all 140 of this year's legislative elections, the race for the 34th Senate District, which includes Fairfax, Vienna and Oakton, is most often mentioned as a key battleground that could help determine control of the Senate. Incumbent Jeannemarie Devolites Davis (R), who served for six years in the House of Delegates before she was elected to the Senate in 2003, is in a fight for her seat in the most Democrat-leaning Senate district held by a Republican. Her opponent is J.C. "Chap" Petersen (D), a former delegate and Fairfax City Council member who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2005.
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Richmond, VA - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is lending his big name to the re-election campaign of a Republican Virginia state senator locked in a desperate re-election bid. Bloomberg will endorse Jeannemarie Devolites Davis on Thursday, according to a release from the senator's office Wednesday.
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Democratic activists are fanning across Loudoun County for a final push before Tuesday's election, sensing an unprecedented opportunity to make gains in traditionally Republican enclaves on the Washington area's edges.
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RICHMOND The battle over which party controls the Virginia General Assembly after Tuesday's election will come down to a handful races, the bulk of which are in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
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Lewis Medlin is running a grassroots campaign as the Democratic Party nominee to challenge Del. Lacey Putney, Virginia’s senior legislator and a Bedford County icon. Medlin, a Montvale businessman making his first bid for public office, said campaigning has been “like jumping off a cliff” into a sea of currents and people’s interests that are hard to anticipate. Putney, an independent with Republican connections, said controversy seems absent in the race.
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Attacks on Delegate Danny Marshall’s voting record on health care issues regarding senior citizens are bogus, said a Republican colleague visiting Danville on Tuesday. Delegate Phillip Hamilton, R-Newport News, attended a fundraiser Tuesday for Marshall, R-Danville, with a group of local doctors. Hamilton is chairman of the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and chairs the Health and Human Resources Appropriations Subcommittee.
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Quiet and quirky, Sen. Nick Rerras, R-Norfolk, is among the state's most understated politicians. Underestimated, too. Rerras was first elected to the General Assembly in 1999, knocking off -- in his second attempt -- a seemingly entrenched senior Democrat from Norfolk who had failed to pay his taxes. Four years later, Rerras -- at the top of the Democratic hit list -- swept a reconfigured 6th Senatorial District, drawn by Republicans to include the then-GOP-friendly Eastern Shore. But this year, Republicans worry that the surprisingly durable Rerras could be a casualty of a Democratic comeback, reflected by the district's preference two years ago for Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
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Mclean, VA - Forget the television ads and the polls. Forget the mailed fliers with their poisonous claims. The 2007 General Assembly race has now gone door-to-door, hand-to-hand. One week from the election that will determine whether Democrats wrest partisan primacy from the Republicans, particularly in the state Senate, both parties are kicking in what could be the deciding factor _ "the ground game."
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb told a group of 75 Democratic supporters Monday in Vinton that "the country is watching Virginia" to see what happens in next week's state legislative races. Webb said that with statewide wins in two gubernatorial races this decade, as well as his own defeat of incumbent George Allen last year, Virginia Democrats are drawing national attention.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is backing pals in the General Assembly for re-election -- even those who don't belong to his party. The Democrat is supporting Del. Katherine B. Waddell, I-Richmond, for a second term in the James River-spanning House seat she first won by 42 votes in 2005. Kaine carried the district that year.
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