WEBB WINS

CBS just sent a crawler across the bottom of the screen during Jericho. Virginia goes to Webb, and we did indeed run the table.

I'm having a beer.

Allen should concede

It's a strange day indeed when I am in agreement with the folks over at the Red State dot org blog; normally I find all their opinions barking mad. But then again, what the hell is ordinary about a day like today?

Webb is ahead and his lead is holding steady at about 8000 votes. This is too many for a recount to make up. It's over. We have, in effect, kicked George Felix's soft teeth down his whining throat, to borrow some of the senators own violent imagery.

Allen may be refusing to concede, but that has not stopped Webb from declaring victory.

At 2 a.m., according to unofficial results tallied by the state of Virginia, Webb had a lead of 4,745 votes over Allen. With 2,433 out of 2,443 precincts reporting Webb had 1,162,004 votes and Allen had 1,157,259 votes.
Just after 1 a.m., Webb claimed victory. "The votes are in and we won," he told his supporters. Webb had appeared before his supportes about two hours earlier and predicted he would win.

"We've been following this in great detail," Webb said, "It looks very, very good for our side." He said he expected to pick up votes in the 11th Congressional District in Northern Virginia and that his campaign was confident that he'd do very well when the absentee ballots were counted.

"It's going to take a while, but at some point soon, I think we are going to be on top," Webb said.

Virginia has a Democratic Senator, one who will ably represent the citizens of that state and who knows first hand how decisions made by politicians affect military personnel. He will fight for what is right, whether it is popular or not.

And Jim Webb will work to bring an end to the insanity of the Iraq war. He has skin in the game.