Virginians, how the flying fuck did that ASSHOLE win the AG contest there tonight?

[RBInMaine]

I would imagine that just not enough D's turned out as I understand they did not quite hit their predictive models, and Libertarians voted for the Asshat.

Take-away lesson? DEMS, GET THE HELL OUT AND VOTE IN HIGHER NUMBERS IN OFF YEAR CYCLES !! As Pete Seeger said, "WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN?!"

[Still Waters]

2. Cuccinelli & Jackson cray cray...Obenshain comparatively more sane

and the Obenshain name is known in VA...the dad was an office holder of some type. Herring not well known.

[napi21]

3. I just hope that the Governor will be able to tell this AH to stop keeping people from voting!

I know I heard the AG was removing people from the voting roles and trying to help the Pubs win by keeping the Dems from voting!

[Samantha]

5. I heard on cable yesterday 40,000 scrubbed from voting database (n/t)

[jenmito]

4. Who said he won? With 99% of pricincts in, he's only up about 800 votes now. n/t

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[Chan790]

6. If the lead holds, the asshole lost.

It's almost certainly going to recount, we're all but certain this one is going to be within 1000 votes out of 2M cast.

[CANDO]

7. Our guy won!

By 541 votes.

[Ranchemp.]

11. Wrong.

http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY

Rep.-Mark D. Obershain-1,099,715- 49.91%
Dem-Mark R. Herring-1,099,233 - 49.88%

Obershain ahead by 482 votes.
Less than 1% point margin means a recountl
Keep our fingers crossed that Herring can pull this out.

[IronLionZion]

8. The Dem is currently ahead by a razor thin margin

http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY

The real question is why was it this close? our side did not do a good job getting our voters to show up for this.

[Marsala]

9. The Democrats haven't taken the Virginia AG seat in twenty years

Winning it at all is great!

[VirginiaTarheel]

10. Herring had much less name recognition than Obie

I didn't really see ads that even focused on Herring from Herring

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Herring ads appeared over and over on the DC TV stations.

GOTV.