We’ve had voter fraud problems of the “count them til you get them right” sort, but not so much from absentee ballots – yet.

The tide is turning. I lived in VA Beach for 10 years (moved 1 year ago). All my family and friends back in the Old Dominion are ticked! The Dems have truly overstepped. Their 2008 election has gone to their heads and their stupidity, hypocrisy and duplicity will be their doom! They have no idea what is about to hit them.

The Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area of NC is exactly the same, and this shift is trending both states blue. Add to that the fact that good GOP candidates are pretty successful without government help, and have no desire to put their family through the thug wringer in order to run for office, and you have a pretty bad combination for the GOP in these two states. The substantial black population and its monolithic voting tendencies also are hard to overcome, although you are exactly correct in that they are far less likely to vote in the 2009 election in VA.

And Jack, if you don’t mind I would like to point out to martellus that I spelled his name the same as the great military general and Roman consul from ancient times, his name was Marcellus (not macellus).

I would say that the reason Democrats win there is the same reason Democrats win in nearly every county close to Appalachian – strong union members in coal mining country. They go Republican for national office, and Democrat locally. They are socially conservative.

The Tidewater area is solid military, and will go for McDonnell. I am sure you know he is also a native son of the Tidewater area. The NOVA counties are simply suburbs of DC and have been blue for a while. SW VA is pretty solid red, even with Va Tech in Blacksburg.

If you know Dick Obenshain I am sure you are familiar with Vance Wilkins and Dick Cranwell, and perhaps even Lacey Putney. I have a little history in VA as well.

Virginia will go McDonnell. Count on it.

So the Alexandria City Council seats taken by Republican and Republican endorsed candidates means nothing?

PS – Don’t dismiss it – The Dems already tried that.

The VA constitution defined the requirements for registering to vote as being able to swear that you would live in VA for an unlimited amount of time. Military spouses couldn’t do that since we are moved continually.

One registrar was discouraging military spouses from registering to vote, using that antiquated clause.

We had Federal, State and everyone else saying “it’s a Federal issue, no it’s a state issue” and everything in between but NO ONE did anything – they were just waiting.

Mark introduced legislation to exempt military spouses and dependents from this archaic law. It passed with the only exceptions on the Senate side was Sen. Reynolds and tah-dah – Creigh Deeds.

My point of this rambling is that someone will have to champion this in the VA legislature to mandate a specific period of time. Until then, it was be the pointing finger and waiting for someone else game.

My suggestion is for every VA resident reading this to contact their representatives and DEMAND that legislation be passed for the sufficient amount of time to get those ballots to our military.

I already have emailed mine.

No wonder it’s already #1.

Virginia and South Carolina are now the two prime States where white, liberal, Northerners now retire. In 8 years I went from my neighbors being form Virginia to I am the only one that was born and raised here. Smith Mountain Lake, Roanoke Valley and many other areas are now large retirement areas.

My two immediate neighbors are from New York. They are retired union people who campaign very loudly for Democrats. Democrats now outnumber Republicans down here. Bob Goodlatte is hanging on by a thread. Virgil Goode was tossed out of office by a New Yorker Tom Perriellop who came here for the select purpose to be elected to the Congress.

Periello and the unions, the DCCC, the Democrat part have been running commercials here since Obama was sworn into office. Not one thing from the Republicans. Not one commercial they have won their races are solidifying their hold on the State.

Money, we need millions and millions of dollars to offset them. If we don’t start now get used to Virginia to being a blue state.

You should start addressing the substance of these posts rather than relying on the same argument over and over.

Seriously.

RepConNom/VA

ContractFROMamerica

A quote from Steve Schmidt, McCains campaign head, from an article posted after the election, he had 2 regrets, one was that he advised the McCain campaign to go after Obama’s ties to Ayres- You’ll love the references to both Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace-

http://24ahead.com/mccain-campaign-not-palin-came-palling-around-schmidt-regret

Reading the above article, you will see just how controlled Palin was. I suspect we are going to see alot of just how incompetent these people were in the McCain/Palin campaign when the new Palin book comes out.

Even Steve Schmidt has shown up on the political scene lately, interesting as the McCain fools are coming out of the wood work at the same time. Schmidt, in his speech to the Log Cabin Republicans, the Republican Gay and Lesbian organization, said that the GOP will be destroyed by “religion.”

http://huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/steve-schmidt-mccain-camp-n-188354.html

Huffpo is a bad source, however, they have direct quotes from Schmidts speech. Guess who is now using Schmidt as an advisor- none other than Mark Kirk, who is one of McCain’s choices.

My first question: are you rooting for the Democrats to win? I mean that is exactly what both of your posts seem to indicate. You despise the Republicans that much? With so-called members of the Party like you, what good will you accomplish.

BTW, I live in the Tidewater area, and I spent this past Thursday helping at a McDonnell event. I had the opportunity to work with a number of college aged young people. Among that group were several African-American young women who identified themselves as Independents who had voted for Obama. They do not care for Deeds at all, and were very well-informed about why they are supporting the Republican ticket in Virginia. I suspect that there are a significant number of Independents who are not happy with the current administration; the national one or our state one. I believe they will be looking to vote Republican.

The thoughts you have expressed come across as hoping and being glad of any possibility for our defeat in this state. What would drive that in you, if you are on the up and up? I mean, we are not talking about states in the Northeast.