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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 22

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  Pollster Frank Luntz just went by ... Barb spotted him and called him to my attention as he rushed past and came into the media area to talk with Carl Cameron. He's animated ... what a night!
  
  Fox News folks are analyzing tonight's races as we all wait for [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:06pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 21

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  Barb just brought conservative activist and former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed over to meet me. She got to know him when she lived in Georgia and was involved in the Republican Party there and he was the Republican Chairman of the state. She said he worked hard and made [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:20pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 20

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  Room is darkened ... video being shown of Bob McDonnell campaigning over the past months.
  
  SHAUN KENNEY HAS WON Board of Supervisors position in Fluvanna!!! It was a stealth campaign ... a win for the Jeffersoniad Bloggers.
  
  Beach balls are now being bounced around the room over the [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:52pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 19

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  Just saw my mom's friend Bretis from Chesterfield County. Tried to get a photo of George Allen and Eric Cantor being interviewed. Barb is standing on a chair behind us scoping out the room and giving us a heads-up with people in and about.
  
  There are many people on [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:28pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 18

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  Jody Wagner is now conceding ... Ed Gillespie is back on stage to announce Phil Cox with the McDonnell campaign ... he's addressing the crowd. We are a packed house.
  
  Vince Harris just stopped by for the second time ... he was here earlier ... he was in charge [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:42pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 17

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  MSNBC has called it all the way across for the top three in Virginia ... McDonnell, Bolling, and Cuccinelli!!
  
  Chaz just stopped by and got the updates from delegates in our area. ALL are running away with the elections! Matt Lohr is stomping his competition as is Todd Gilbert [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:41pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 16

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  CNN just called it for Bob McDonnell at 8:15!!! The room went ballistic.
  
  CNN just called it for Ken Cuccinelli at 8:16!!! The room went ballistic. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:11pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 15

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  Bill O'Reilly just said he thinks Chris Christie can pull it out in New Jersey.
  
  Karl Rove just said Virginia's race is astonishing. Right now Bob McDonnell is ahead by 28% which is a huge swing from November 2008, and Virginia is in Barack Obama's back yard.
  
  Barack' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 14

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  Word is Rep. Eric Cantor is going to do "Hardball" with Chris Matthews and then "Hannity" on Fox News ... and somewhere along the way we will see him here in the media area.
  
  There is no "bloggers row" tonight ... we're here with the regular media ... citizen' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 13

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  They just announced the chairman of the McDonnell campaign, Ed Gillespie, who is addressing the crowd and thanking everyone for being here. He said updates will be given throughout the night and special guests will be speaking to the crowd.
  
  He is now introducing Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, former [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:39pm EST
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• Blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 12

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  The doors of the Marriott ballroom are open and people are piling in. I think everyone wants to be in the middle of the action. The big screen TVs are showing the news from Richmond and reinforcing that all eyes in the nation are on Virginia. In 2005 there was [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:21pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 11

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  Kristi Way with Eric Cantor's office was in the ballroom about an hour ago ... she's in the hallway and said Rep. Cantor will be stopping by the media area when he arrives.
  
  Polls close in eight minutes.... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:53pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 10

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  Lt. Governor and Mrs. Bill Bolling have been spotted in the hallway. Brooks and Dunn is being played on the PA system ... "Only in America" ... with the red, white, and blue.... It's 6:50 ... the polls close in 10 minutes.
  
  Ben Marchi, Virginia director of Americans for [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:46pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... #9

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  Chris Saxman is in the house!
  
  Chris and his lovely wife Michele just stopped by to say hello ... I got photos of them and they got photos of me. They have been friends throughout the years and I'm going to miss Chris as my delegate ... but I' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:42pm EST
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• Live-blogging at Marriott with GOP ... # 8

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  Michael Steele is still being interviewed ... I think every news agency in the room has put a microphone in front of him. Just got a photo of Nicole Riley.
  
  Kyle Trygstad who blogs Politics Nation on Real Clear Politics is beside me. The link is to his [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:20pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 7

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  Ben Tribbett is in melt-down mode ... "It's worse than anyone thought." He's doing NBC-12 coverage in Richmond with Norm Leahy ... will we see him in the ballroom of the Marriott? [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:49pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP ... # 6

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  Ran out to my vehicle for something and saw Randy Marcus with the Bolling folks who had parked next to me. Went on the street to photograph the media vehicles and met up with Jay Silvio with the satellite trucks.
  
  Nicole Riley is buzzing around with last-minute preparations. Nicole [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:32pm EST
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• Live-blogging from the Marriott with GOP ... # 5

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  Krystle from Crystal Clear Conservative is now sitting beside me. We squeezed in a chair ... we're wall-to-wall laptops looking out over the ballroom. A fellow blogger has just sent a "warning, warning"! Ben Tribbett has entered the Marriott.
  
  Ibbie Hedrick with the Bolling campaign just stopped by to' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:07pm EST
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• Live-blogging from the Marriott with GOP # 4

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  RPV Chairman Pat Mullins and RPV PR Tim Murtaugh just stopped by and said hello. Got a photo and thanked them for their hard work. Now Ken Cuccinelli has come into the room and is scouting out the area. Pat is being interviewed by Channel 7 out of Washington, DC.
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:44pm EST
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• Live-blogging from Marriott with GOP # 3

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  Matt Wells, campaign manager with the Bolling campaign, just stopped by to talk. He's cautious ... years of political work does that ... don't celebrate until the deal is sealed. He's busy with last-minute details. I saw Dave Rexrode walk by a while ago ... sound tests are going on' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:05pm EST
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• Live blogging with GOP from Marriott # 2

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  From Bob McDonnell....
  
  It's game day!
  
  I'm feeling great about our chances because right now there are literally thousands of volunteers across the Commonwealth urging people to vote by phone, email, and door-knocking in every corner of our Commonwealth.
  
  I just wanted to send you a personal' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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• Live-blogging from the Richmond Marriott with McDonnell~Bolling~Cuccinelli

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  What a beautiful Election Day 2009! It was 60 degrees and sunny in the Shenandoah Valley ... a perfect autumn day to be checking out the polls. After spending the morning doing just that, I met fellow SWACer Barb Tillett and headed to Richmond for the big Republican gathering at [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:30pm EST
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• I Voted! McDonnell~Bolling~Cuccinelli~Bell

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  We voted this morning ... there had been 125 voters before us at 8:00 which is a good number for our rural area. Friends have been checking in after voting around the area ... one said 165 were ahead of him at his Staunton precinct. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:47am EST
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• Election Day 2009 ... vote GOP McDonnell~Bolling~Cuccinelli

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  Virginia's winning Republican team ...
  Bill Bolling ~ Bob McDonnell ~ Ken Cuccinelli
  
  Election Day 2009
  Please exercise your freedom to vote
  and go to the polls today.
  
  Nothing is so sweet as the taste of freedom....
  
  Photo by SWAC Girl
  Lynn [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:16am EST
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