November 08, 2006
Republicans Will Pressure Allen... Soon
Top Republicans in Washington will give Sen. George Allen a few days to take stock of his legal and political options before beginning to pressure him to concede to James Webb. Senior Republican officials and White House aides believe that Webb won the race. Several outside advisers to Allen want him to make the decision quickly; others in his campaign want to make sure that there's no chance a cache of new votes will turn up. One question: when will (will?) the AP call the race? [MARC AMBINDER]
Posted at 05:23 PM
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You can do it, Macaca.
Wordsmith | 11.08.06 06:42 PM
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Well, there is this minor tradition we have that says if you get 7,000 or mmore votes more than you opponent, you are declared the winner of the race. Good grief, Tester only won by under half that much in Montana. What's the hold up here? Counting final ballots, the sum total of which are fewer than the 7,000 plus margin Webb won by? I seem to remember a lot of Republicans hollering about accepting the results and moving on a few years ago to Democrats in this position. This is a bigger margin than Bush won by in Florida, for God's sake. If Allen wants a political future, he needs to swallow hard, admit he lost, and move on. Al Gore was man enough to do it. Let's see if George Allen is even half the man Al Gore is and remains to this day.
HeartlandLiberal | 11.08.06 06:43 PM
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Are you sure? Sources? If this is true, and they are not trying to steal this, they have given us another cause to celebrate.
Whatever, this or an unshady recount with Webb on top will just give us more shit to throw in Bush's face.
Heh, thanks and thanks to Air america for posting this report.
XXXOOO
marjorieann | 11.08.06 06:48 PM
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are there not 100k military and absentee votes left to count? thats the only reason I can see the AP hasnt called the race yet
jp | 11.08.06 07:22 PM
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We know he's racist. Let's see if he's a sore loser too.
derek | 11.08.06 07:35 PM
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"a cache of new votes"?
(looks under couch)
Whoops! No new votes here!
Anonymous | 11.08.06 07:44 PM
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George Allen should concede once it looks like there is no hope that he can actually win (and I think that we are already there) It isn't fair to steal the democrats moment, afterall the republicans have had plenty of such moments in the last several elections. John Kerry and Al Gore both conceded when they both actually won, so I guess that it shouldn't be asking too much that George Allen should concede now that he actually lost. It made me rather angry when the republicans announced Rumsfelds resignation today, not that I'm angry about the resignation. It was just all really bad timing. Nothing like the republicans stealing the democrats thunder. The dems just won the house and it hasn't even been anounced that they have won the senate yet, and yet it's already old news. I think that it sucks that they had to steal the spotlight on today of all days. It appears that George Bush is still flexing his muscles. What's new?
J.C. | 11.08.06 08:07 PM
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Duh. From my reading, there's no way Allen could win based on the outstanding precincts.
Badonkadonk | 11.08.06 08:08 PM
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Maybe They Know Something, Or Sense It
At 3:17 p.m., Webb led by 7,372 votes on the oficial state database.
Since then, every single minuscule minute-by-minute update appears to have favored Allen.
As of 6:56 p.m., Webb's lead was down to 7,317.
Next change, about 7:30. One more vote located for Allen, Webb's lead now 7,316.
Still looks decisive for Webb. But what are the odds of this pattern happening naturally?
"Cache of votes"? Hopefully not up somebody's sleeve.
Jack Taylor | 11.08.06 08:35 PM
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Mr.Allen
You fought a good fight.But there is no way to
pull 8000 votes out of the air, and if You do
Then Mr.Webb can call for a recount.
So it seems to pull off the true victory
You will need at least 15000 votes.
Sorry Sir, I don't see that happening.
Time to Man up as it were.Concede.
You will only hurt your future in politics if you
drag this out . People still have a bad tase in there mouth's from Florida.
Brad in Virginia
Brad | 11.08.06 08:40 PM
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They finally did ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/democrats_senate
Gitmo | 11.08.06 10:20 PM
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Macaaca may be hoping the Supreme court may intervene in the count tally, but since they are busy with the abortion issue, Alito and Roberts will ask that they hold up till they have time to award Allen his job back.
John Bakalik | 11.08.06 10:33 PM
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When will the AP call the race? Let's say a few minutes after the posting of this article.
Jake | 11.08.06 10:40 PM
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Why do we always gave up.
Don Lynch | 11.08.06 10:58 PM
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It's like Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. all in one day! Where are the trolls? "Yes, Vriginia there is a Santa Claus!"
alice nuffer | 11.09.06 04:47 AM
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And why, exactly, will it take them a few days to pressure Allen? If they have determined that it will be a waste of time to contest the election, it would seem reasonable to pressure him to concede now.
Dan | 11.09.06 06:48 AM
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AP actually has called the race: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/us/politics/09virginia.html
Jonathan | 11.09.06 06:49 AM
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Sounds like they want to get him off the scene so they can prepare for Lieberman jumping parties in January.
sacoman | 11.09.06 08:50 AM
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They just did: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2006/story?id=2640376&page=1
Levi Wallach | 11.09.06 10:28 AM
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Well, we now know that the AP did. My question is, why are they the coronators? Don't get me wrong, I had a Webb yardsign; I just don't understand "the AP" as the end all be all...
Tom | 11.09.06 10:28 AM
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I'd like to believe this, but I'm neither republican nor christian, so that means I need more proof than some random blog.
anonymous | 11.09.06 12:44 PM
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