by LowellHere are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, November 4. It actually turned out to be a very good night in Northern Virginia (see photo at right, by Catherine Read, of victorious Fairfax Democrats celebrating), and to a somewhat lesser extent in Hampton Roads, Henrico County, Roanoke City, etc. The #1 unfortunate result of last night, which of course is what the corporate media blared in headlines, was that Democrats came up juuuuuuust short of taking back the State Senate. Other than that, though, not too shabby, and a major rebuke to the Republicans I saw predicting a GOP sweep last night and even that Virginia would return to being a "red state." Sorry, ain't happenin'. ;)
- News Media Veterans Rip GOP Debate Demands As Bullying And "Unreasonable" ("Money Changes Everything ... Who Are These Debates Supposed To Serve?")
- The GOP primary is satire from hell: Why Donald Trump’s mad house would make Howard Beale squirm
- The GOP’s ridiculous debate demands should be rejected ("This is a threat. Responsible journalists will ignore it." We'll see how many "responsible journalists" there are out there.)
- Conservative school board members ousted in bitter Colorado battle
- Republican Bevin wins Kentucky governor's race (HUGE mistake by Kentucky voters, this is really going to hurt their state.)
- America’s post-Citizens United dumpster fire: How the campaigns are blowing holes in what remains of campaign finance law (One of the worst ruling in U.S. Supreme Court history.)
- Senate Defeats A Bill That Would Have Removed Millions Of Miles Of Streams From Federal Protection
- Carson Blames Enemy 'Submarine' For Questions About Ties To Company
- Election 2015: Virginia Republicans poised to retain firm grip on House (Right, that was always expected, given Democratic "dropoff" in this off/odd election year.)
- At end of road, Dems temper expectations ("Back in July a Senate Democratic leader - on background - told reporters he could 'sum it up in one sentence: the playing field tilts strongly toward Democrats.'" Hmmmm.)
- McAuliffe’s hopes for Senate majority dashed (So close and yet so far...if only Dan Gecker could have picked up the Watkins seat.)
- Republicans retain control of Virginia Senate in blow to McAuliffe
- NOVA Post Election Quick Hits (Generally solid, interesting analysis by conservative Chris Beers.)
- Don't Pop the Corks on That Champagne Just Yet (Also, fun to read this analysis by Republican Brian Schoeneman, ripping the Republican Party of Virginia and declaring, "By any objective measurement, the GOP had a bad night." I agree with almost everythinng he has to say here.)
(lots more after the "flip")
- Frank Wagner re-elected in the Virginia Senate 7th District (Dominion Power is very happy right now; their puppet was reelected. Oh yay.)
- Gary McCollum attacks Dominion, and the energy giant strikes back
- 47-year veteran Paul Ebert wins close race for Pr. William prosecutor (I'm really glad that Cooch's pick for this position lost.)
- York, Delgaudio ousted in Loudoun Board elections (Congratulations to Koran Saines, Phyllis Randall and Kristen Umstattd on their wins last night!)
- John Edwards wins 'intense' re-election bid in 21st District Senate race (Phew!)
- Suetterlein breezes to victory in 19th District (As expected in an overwhelmingly Republican district, but still sad, as Michael Hamlar would be a FAR better State Senator for this district.)
- Stanley wins re-election in 20th District (Ditto to the previous comments, except replace "Michael Hamlar" with "Kim Adkins")
- Democrats win 2 open seats on Fairfax board; all incumbents are reelected (Excellent news, congratulations to Kathy Smith on her election to the Fairfax County Board and Dalia Palchik to the School Board!)
- Our view: In Edwards-Dye-Caldwell race, demography wins again
- Henrico's Dunnavant wins in 12th Senate District
- Chesterfield's Chase eases to victory in 11th Senate District
- Taylor fends off Pham to win second term as Henrico prosecutor (Excellent!)
- Editorial: Sturtevant scores major win in Senate race (Agreed that he did, unfortunately, and it was partly the fault of the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board.)
- Democrats win Arlington board seats; Alexandria vice mayor claims top job (The Arlington Republican candidate gets wiped out, gotta love that! Also, congratulations to ACDC Chair Kip Malinosky and his team, as well as to Christian Dorsey's and Katie Cristol's teams.)
- GOP maintains majority on Henrico Board of Supervisors
- Low turnout in the Peninsula's competitive races ("In the race between Del David Yancey, R-Newport News, and Democrat Shelly Simonds to represent Newport News' 94th House of Delegates district, turnout looks like it was 30.55% of all registered voters.")
- U-Va. waged intense fight to influence federal sexual assault investigation
- The Lerners got rich doing it their way. This time, it cost the Nationals a manager. (Are sports owners all idiots?)
- D.C. area forecast: Warm through Friday with a stray shower here and there; cooler this weekend
