Former governor wins Va. GOP Senate nomination

[Terri]

By BOB LEWIS
Associated Press
June 2, 2008

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Former Gov. Jim Gilmore was narrowly nominated Saturday by the Virginia Republican Convention to run for the seat of retiring Republican U.S. Sen. John Warner.

Gilmore won with 50.3 percent of the delegate votes over Del. Bob Marshall, the Virginia General Assembly's most ardent foe of abortion and gay marriage.

The slim margin -- about 65 votes, less than a percentage point -- leaves Gilmore to face popular, well-funded Democrat Mark Warner in the fall election. The GOP has lost the state's past two gubernatorial races and the 2006 Senate election.

More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/june/0602_gilmore.shtml)

[billybigrigger]

Here we have the on the Republican side the Virginia governor with the lowest exit ratings in modern history, and on the dem side the Virginia governor with the highest ratings in modern history. Maybe that why Gilmore polls twenty points behind Warner. The odds makers put it at 9 to 1 Warner. I wouldn't bet on Gilmore if the odds were a million to one. He's got no money, Warner's got as much if not more than Romney has he co-founded Nextel and then sold it to Sprint for over $200 million. It's so obvious that he going to lose the national committe is not going to give him a dime. He hates Bush and says so (Bush fired him from being leader of the RNC). We all know were his numbers were when he ran for President. He wouldn't have carried Virginia in a Presidential election against Howdy Doody.

[84rules]

Yep. It looks like Virginia is going to get a second Senator to vote the way the DNC tells him to vote rather than represernt Virginia. Webb was the first.

Dark days here for the Commonwealth.

[billybigrigger]

I believe it's your end of the state that is becoming more and more blue. We didn't really have a viable canidate, because nobody wanted to run against Warner whom certainly is a much more formidable canidate than Jim Webb was. The other guy was the hand picked canidate of Pat Robertson and that's the kiss of death in a state wide contest anymore.

[schillerbjr]

Reading posts #2- # 4, looks like VA will have 2 Democrat Senaotors, and sure path to "COMMUNISM"!!