It appears that the race for former Democratic delegate Brian Moran's seat in the Virginia House of delegates is a very close one.
https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.g...
Democrat Charniele L. Herring has a 17 vote lead over Republican Joe Murray out of around 3,000 votes cast. Many of you will say "hey its good news that a Democrat won, right". You may say that, but when you learn that this is a district that went for Obama over McCain by a margin of 75%-25%, you should be absolutely shocked. Sure, this turned out better than the last local special election we had in Delaware in December where Obama won 69%-31% and the Republican actually WON.
In 2005 and 2006, Democrats won a lot of special elections in state legislative districts like this. I believe there was one in Missouri back in early 2006 where Bush had recieved 71% of the vote and a Democrat ended up winning. Democrats have not even took control of the government yet and we have already had two losses like that one, one in Louisiana( http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090... and one in Delaware(http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/election.shtml).
The thing that kills me is that NOBODY on here is mentioning that elections are being held during these elections. One person mentioned the Virginia election yesterday and that may have actually tipped the scales in that race since the Democrat won by just 17 votes. The point is, if we are struggling to win areas that went for Obama with 70% and 75% of the vote, how are we going to win Senate seats in New Hampshire(54% Obama) and Pennsylvania(54%) in 2010. I would suggest that people like Paul Hodes and Patrick Murphy stay in their House seats because 2010 is not going to be a good year for Democrats to be leaving competitive open seats. If Paul Hodes and Patrick Murphy are not leading their Republican opponents right now, there is no way they will win in 2010 when the economy has not recovered and the environoment has shifted even further against us. Wake up folks, the party is over.