If you are interested, you will find some voter data below which will give you a sense of what to look for in Virginia Beach on November 6th. This is perhaps one of the most consequential single localities in the nation in this election. Think West Palm Beach, Florida, circa 2000.
First some background:
In 2006, after knocking doors in Virginia for Jim Webb weekend after weekend through the Fall, I had to sit through what was really a torturous election night. For most of the night it appeared that the really odious human being George Felix Allen had enough of a cushion to win the night and retain his Senate seat for the Republican party. Then, Northern Virginia finally kicked in and we, thankfully, arrived at a different result. Though, this took days of shifting votes.
For 2008, I expected things to be close as well, so I gathered all the vote data by locality for the prior three presidential elections. On election night, I was able to compare early precinct returns in Virginia to prior elections and feel pretty comfortable at about 7:30 PM that Virginia had turned blue.
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