Protesters, Electronic Ticket Error, A Blogger Arrested: Lets Get it On, Virginia

by clorenz1 | November 6, 2006 at 01:06 pm

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In Virginia Jim Webb and George Allen are in a race to the end line. It's getting nasty, well nastier than before, as a crucial Senate seat is up for grabs. This race is so big that it has essentially over shadowed every other Virgina election, and even many of the other on-going national state wide elections. George Allen has been followed everywhere he goes by protesters (Protesters dressed in jail jumpsuits and oversize masks resembling
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
dogged Allen all over the parking lot, trying to squeeze into photos
with him. "I thought we were friends," they said when shunned), and a blogger was even arrested at one of his rallys.

Jim Webb's name was actually cut off on the electronic ballot which will be used Tuesday due to a glitch.

This race is really amazing and it seems to have taken on a life of its own.

Both sides were relying on elaborate get-out-the-vote efforts that worked full-bore on the final campaign weekend, and have readied teams of lawyers to go to work in case of a close finish.

What had appeared to be a runaway re-election bid for Allen as late as August was about even according to recent polls, including one released Saturday by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. It's one of several tight races that will help determine whether Republicans will hang on to the Senate.

Will you be in Virginia for the election. Please help tell this story by sending in your photographs, video or audio reports.

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