The only thing that was surprising about Mark Warner’s victory Tuesday night was the margin. He won by 29 points. That is a historic total, one that even Warner didn’t anticipate.

That figure does not include more than a half-million absentee ballots that the state had already received.

The State Board of Elections says the automated calls are intended to mislead voters about their polling places.

Judge refuses to order longer voting hours and reallocation of voting machines in Virginia.

The election numbers are in and they are huge. Not the vote totals, but the numbers it takes to put on an election in Virginia

Virginia’s Democratic team started its final statewide swing in Roanoke Monday morning

That should ease the lines on Election Day tomorrow, but voters should still expect to wait in line to vote, Nancy Rodriques, secretary of the state Board of Elections, said this morning.

If you’re for limited government, a flat tax and getting the military out of Iraq, then William Redpath is your man.

Independent Green’s Parker pushes high-speed rail system

Rep. Virgil Goode was endorsed today by former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

Ahead of today’s federal court hearing on the NAACP’s voting-rights suit, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appeared on four network television broadcasts and said Virginia is ready for a record turnout on Election Day.

Democrat Tom Perriello’s latest television ad goes directly at your pocketbook.

The newest Mason-Dixon poll shows Warner favored by 61 percent, Gilmore by 32 percent.

Former Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore made his first stop in Danville on Wednesday on his campaign trail to the Senate.

Jay Warren gives a more personal look at who Mark Warner is.

The two congressional candidates for Virginia’s 5th District talked policy and traded pointed jabs in a packed and rowdy room Tuesday night at American Legion Post 325.

Gilmore spoke about the importance of voting this year and why it should be for the republican ticket.

The award is presented annually to “an individual who has personified distinguished service to the nation driven by moral and ethical values that are the pride and strength of the United States Marine Corps.”

C. Linwood Duncan had been Goode’s press secretary since the Rocky Mount legislator was elected to Congress in 1996.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell released a formal opinion Monday concluding that federal absentee ballots from overseas military voters lacking the printed name and address of a witness must be counted.

Virginia election officials say they are prepared for a record voter turnout on Election Day, but voters who show up during rush hours can still expect to wait in line.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will speak at Liberty University today on behalf of Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama. Kaine, a national co-chair of the Obama campaign, will address students during convocation at 10 a.m.

Republican Congressman Virgil Goode has never won less than 59% of the vote in the decade that he’s been in office

Acting United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley announced that Sharon K. Burnham, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Virginia, will lead the efforts of her Office in the connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program

Warner talked about creating more jobs, improving infrastructure, the financial crisis facing the economy and how technology can help

The figures on the Senate campaign are virtually unchanged from the previous poll

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Anne Holton called voters and thanked volunteers.

As a part of WSLS’s continuing coverage of the 2008 elections, Jay Warren has profiled the major party candidates in the US Senate contest as well as the candidates in the 5th and 6th Congressional District contests. Here’s his one-on-one interview with Republican Rep. Virgil Goode who is running for re-election to the US House from the 5th Congressional District.