Warner 2008

I haven't been able to write any new posts in a while, on account of me being sick and on account of it being Thanksgiving week. There's been a lot going on, so I haven't been able to get to writing a new post.

I don't really have much to talk about tonight. Except for the fact that bloggers are raving about Mark Warner 2008. For an example of what I'm talking about, go to Young Voters for Warner. It's got upcoming voters in 2008 talking about the enormous possibility that Mark Warner will run for President in 2008. Well, I do believe that if he does run, he will pick up at least the nomination for the Democratic Party.

An interesting post I found on my best friend's blog, Neal 2028, is that he believes if Warner runs in 2008 and wins the nomination, Jay Rockefeller would be a very good choice to run for Vice President. Go check out the post.

Also, for those of you who wish to sport the Mark Warnerism and his possible run for the presidency on your website or blog, here is a graphic I pulled from Brian Patton. He made it himself based on Warner 2001.


If you have a graphic, feel free to drop me a line in the comments to this post, and I'll be happy to use your graphic.

H RES 571- Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately

REJECTED!

House Resolution #571, titled "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately," was rejected late Friday night by a landslide margin of 3-403, Ayes to Noes.

The Ayes were all Democrats, being

McKinney

Serrano

Wexler

The noes were extensive:
Republicans in roman, Democrats in italics, Independents underlined

Abercrombie Ackerman Aderholt Akin Alexander Allen Andrews Baca Bachus Baird Baker Baldwin Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Bean Becerra Berkley Berry Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Boren Boucher Boustany Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (OH) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Calvert Cannon Cantor Capito Capps Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Carter Case Castle Chabot Chandler Chocola Cleaver Clyburn Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Doolittle Doyle Drake Dreier Duncan Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson Engel English (PA) Eshoo Etheridge Evans Everett Farr Fattah Feeney Ferguson Filner Fitzpatrick (PA) Foley Forbes Ford Fortenberry Foxx Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Gillmor Gingrey Gohmert

Gonzalez Goode Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green (WI) Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Gutknecht Harman Harris Hart Hastert Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Herseth Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hostettler Hoyer Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inglis (SC) Inslee Israel Issa Istook Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Jenkins Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kanjorski Kaptur Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kucinich Kuhl (NY) Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Leach Lee Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Mack Maloney Manzullo Marchant Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy McCaul (TX) McCollum (MN) McCotter McCrery McGovern McHenry McHugh McIntyre McKeon McMorris McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Menendez Mica Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy Murtha Musgrave Myrick Napolitano Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney Norwood Nunes

Nussle Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Osborne Otter Oxley Pallone Pascrell Pastor Payne Pearce Pelosi Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Pombo Pomeroy Porter Price (GA) Price (NC) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Ramstad Rangel Regula Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Saxton Schakowsky Schiff Schmidt Schwartz (PA) Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Sessions Shaw Shays Sherman Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Simpson Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Snyder Sodrel Solis Souder Spratt Stark Stearns Strickland Stupak Sullivan Sweeney Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Turner Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woolsey Wu Wynn Young (FL)

I think it was almost ridiculous to see this even come to vote in the house. An immediate withdrawal would be a less-than-welcome, even ludicrous, answer to the War in Iraq. My personal belief, which has been asked upon many times in Government class, is that there should be a timetable set to leave the country. I really don't think that the Iraqi government is up to dealing with the insurgency themselves and running their own country right now without a little bit of democratic leadership. Any comments to this? Feel free to have your own discussion in my comment box. I'll even write you back in the box if time allots.

AG Race down to 345 votes

Well, it keeps getting closer and closer. According to the State Board of Elections, Bob McDonnell's lead is narrowing as Creigh Deeds is only 345 votes away as of 2:57 P.M today. The Attorney General's race has been tight since last week when elections were held. More as it becomes available

AG Race down to 352 votes!

Good evening readers. Tonight is shaping up to be a very chilly night. But the fire is still present in the ever-continuing counting of the ballots. As of 5:27 P.M. today, Republican candidate for Attorney General Bob McDonnell holds a 352 vote margin over Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds. Once again, state mandates require there to be a county-by-county, ballot-by-ballot recount. I think it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the vote count before the actual recount.

Check out the post on the Raising Kaine Blog about where the votes are coming from.

AG Race down to 446 votes!

Wow, this election just keeps getting better and better. Officially, the Virginia State Board of Elections has Republican Bob McDonnell ahead by 446 votes over Democrat Creigh Deeds. If the vote margin is 1,000 votes or less, the state is mandated to hold a recount.

This information is current as of 7:00 A.M., November 15, 2005.

More updates as they become available.

Pictures from Saturday's Democratic Rally

Tim Kaine and me












Mark Warner and me












Me, Creigh Deeds, and Neal

TIM KAINE WINS!!!

AP Reports that the Virginia Gubernatorial race goes to Tim Kaine!!!

Now, let's just hope for Leslie and Creigh!

Personally, I think Bolling has it all wrapped up on Byrne, but Deeds still has a chance against McDonnell!

LET'S GO DEMS!!!

LIVE GOVERNOR'S RACE RESULTS! 8:57 P.M.

ELECTION RACE RESULTS AS OF 8:58 P.M. EST


Office: Governor

Precincts Reporting: 1755 of 2426 (72.34%) Registered Voters: 4,451,909 Total Voting: 1,375,071 Voter Turnout: 30.89 %

T M Kaine
Democratic
698,494
50.80%

J W Kilgore
Republican
645,610
46.95%

H R Potts Jr
Independent
29,848
2.17%

Write Ins
1,119
0.08%

Vote Totals:
1,375,071

LIVE GOVERNOR'S RACE RESULTS! 8:47 P.M.

ELECTION RESULTS AS OF 8:47 P.M. EST


Office: Governor

Precincts Reporting: 1634 of 2426 (67.35%) Registered Voters: 4,451,968 Total Voting: 1,281,318 Voter Turnout: 28.78 %

T M Kaine
Democratic
649,957
50.73%

J W Kilgore
Republican
602,443
47.02%

H R Potts Jr
Independent
27,840
2.17%

Write Ins
1,078
0.08%

Vote Totals:
1,281,318

LIVE GOVERNOR"S RACE RESULTS! 8:37 P.M.

ELECTION RESULTS AS OF 8:37 P.M. EST


Office: Governor

Precincts Reporting: 1540 of 2426 (63.48%) Registered Voters: 4,451,969
Total Voting: 1,221,738
Voter Turnout: 27.44 %

T M Kaine
Democratic
624,912
51.15%


J W Kilgore
Republican
569,051
46.58%


H R Potts Jr
Independent
26,703
2.19%


Write Ins
1,072
0.09%

Vote Totals:
1,221,738

Excerpt from the AP

Here is an exerpt from an Associated Press story printed this morning about both the New Jersey and Virginia governor's races.



"In Virginia, Republican Jerry Kilgore, the former attorney general, is in a too-close-to-call race against Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine for an open seat.

Virginia's harshest ad criticized Kaine, a Roman Catholic, for his opposition to capital punishment. On radio and television, the father of a murder victim tells viewers: "Tim Kaine says Adolf Hitler doesn't qualify for the death penalty. This was one of the worst mass murderers in modern times."

Kaine, a former criminal defense attorney who had suggested to a panel of newspaper reporters that he wouldn't favor executing Hitler, Josef Stalin or Idi Amin, fired back with an ad pledging to carry out death sentences "because it's the law."

The death penalty, property taxes and immigration dominated debate in Virginia, which has voted more and more Republican in recent years — even while current Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, barred by law from seeking a second term, holds soaring approval ratings."

Potluck Dinner with Virginia's candidates for office

This evening, I had the opportunity to listen to the Democratic candidates for state office. Afterwards, I got to meet and greet with the candidates before they left for another rally.

I met with:

Tim Kaine
Leslie Byrne
Creigh Deeds

and other notables:

Governor Mark Warner
Former Governor Linwood Holton
Representative Rick Boucher
Delegate Joe Johnson
State Senator Phillip Puckett

I had a wonderful 10 minute conversation with Governor Warner about the Kaine campaign, and his tenure as governor himself. He declined to talk about hopes for running for president in 2008, but said, "We'll just have to wait and see."

Tim Kaine was very busy meeting with the other approximately 200 people at the dinner. I did have time to tell him that he knew my best friend, Neal Osborne (Neal 2028), from a Democratic rally in Wytheville. He remembered and was pleased to know that people my age were getting involved in the political process so early.

I had the time for individual pictures with Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, and Creigh Deeds. Overall, I believe the night went very well. Once I get the pictures developed and onto a CD, I'll upload them to my blog. But for now, I leave you with the memories of another Democratic-ruled night. Good night and God Bless!

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Virginia Governor's Race Remains Virtual Deadlock

The latest Mason-Dixon poll has Democrat Tim Kaine with a one-point lead over Republican Jerry Kilgore. But with the poll's margin of error- ±4 percentage points- the race remains deadlocked going into the last few days.

Last month, the Mason-Dixon poll had Kaine 2 percentage points behind. Here are the numbers broken down:
Tim Kaine (D) - 45%
Jerry Kilgore (R) - 44%
Russell Potts (I) - 4%
Undecided - 6%

Margin of error - ±4%

Poll conducted November 1, 2005 to November 2, 2005, polling 625 likely voters.

It seems to me that the Kilgore campaign is faultering. Today, there is a Democratic Rally and Potluck Supper at Abingdon High School, beginning at 5:00. Featured guests will be Tim Kaine, Leslie Byrne, Creigh Deeds, Governor Mark Warner, 9th District Representative Rick Boucher, and others. I urge to public to come out to support the Democratic candidates as they turn into the home stretch.