Republican Wittman Wins Virginia House Seat in Special Election

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Republican Wittman Wins Virginia House Seat in Special Election
By Greg Giroux, CQ Staff

Virginia Republican Rob Wittman will soon be a member of the U.S. House, following his easy win in a special election Tuesday. Wittman’s victory in Virginia’s Republican-leaning 1st District will fill the vacancy that has existed since October, when four-term Republican Rep. Jo Ann Davis died of breast cancer.

Wittman, a longtime officeholder in eastern Virginia and a member of the state House of Delegates, had 63 percent of the vote with about three-fourths of all votes counted to defeat Democrat Philip Forgit, an Iraq war veteran and former teacher who took 35 percent. Independent Lucky Narain, a member of the Army Reserves, took 2 percent.

The hastily scheduled contest, held in the midst of the busy December holiday season, forced the candidates’ campaigns to focus heavily on boosting the expected low voter turnout.

Wittman moved out to a big lead in early returns reported by state election authorities shortly after the polls closed at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Wittman’s vote share in those returns rivaled the 63 percent vote share that Davis amassed in winning a fourth House term in November 2006.

The abbreviated special election campaign — the candidates were selected in nominating conventions just one month ago — posed more challenges for Forgit than for Wittman, who had the advantage of a strong Republican-voting base in a district that stretches from the Tidewater region in southeastern Virginia to suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the district’s north. President Bush took 60 percent of the district’s vote in 2004; George Allen, the Republican Senate incumbent who ran in 2006, and Jerry W. Kilgore, the party’s 2005 nominee for governor, both ran ahead in the 1st even as they lost statewide.

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[Kucinich4America]

1. Is he any relation to fellow Republican Marshall Wittman

Of the "Christian" Coalition, Heritage Foundation, McCain campaign and DLC??

[Peace Patriot]

2. We need to learn to put quotes around the word "win" when we are talking about

the results of unverifiable, electronic voting, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

Just sayin.

[tritsofme]

3. Yes, because any time a Democrat loses, the election was probably stolen

Anything less than 430 Democrats in the House of Representatives is the result of a massive conspiracy resulting blatant voter fraud.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Nope, I would put quotes around the word "win" for ANYBODY who claims to

have been "elected" by voting machines run on 'TRADE SECRET' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

You are making unwarranted assumptions about me, in your post. I think that MOST of Congress is illegitimate--Democrats as well as Republicans. The machines favor WARMONGERS and FASCISTS of BOTH parties.

Until recently, I would have said that, on the whole, warmongering and fascism are much more characteristic of Republicans--especially in this Bushite era--than Democrats. But lately I've begun to realize that Democrats are just better liars. They trade on an ambience of "liberalism," but then vote just like Bushites, or very near--particularly on the issues that matter most.

It was the Democratic Party leadership that made "TRADE SECRET" vote counting possible--by direct complicity (Christopher Dodd and others), and by their craven SILENCE, in the case of those who didn't agree.

HOWEVER, the direct ties of the major e-voting corporations to the Bush/Cheney campaign and to far rightwing causes cannot be ignored. It is NOT Democratic Party campaign chairs and donors, and big contributors to leftwing causes, who are 'counting' all our votes with 'TRADE SECRET' code. It is BUSHITES.

So, you tell me why I or anyone should trust the results.

[cali]

6. not in this district we don't

DUers need to be a little more discerning regarding where vote fraud is an issue and where it isn't.

Just sayin'

[beachmom]

5. This is a Republican district. Had Forgit pulled it off, it would have

been a major upset.

[Zynx]

7. With how Republican it is, major is an understatement.