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The Virginia State Board of Elections certified state Sen. Mark Herring (D) as the winner of the Virginia attorney general race on Monday.

The board confirmed that Herring won by a slim 165-vote margin, beating Sen. Mark Obenshain, the Republican candidate in the race.

In Virginia, there is no such thing as an automatic recount, but I expect that Obenshain will request one before the 10-day time limit expires.

Just imagine what would have happened if the Republican Party had gutted out just a few more votes.

Addendum, the next evening:

The forces of reaction and patriarchy never give up.

Moved below the fold because it autoplays on some systems.

Autoplaying is rude.

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This is the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Via The Richmonder.

Via The Richmonder.

I posted this earlier, then took it down while trying to shoot some trouble (H/T to George Smith for notifying me of the trouble.)

But it’s so important I’m trying again.

Via The Richmonder.

Longest serving Virginia Republican in the Virginia General Assembly endorses McAuliffe.

Via The Richmonder.

In this case, it’s one of the cuckoos, Lt. Gov. candidate E. W. “Fire and Brimstone” Jackson, who’s backpedaling.

Challenged by a Jewish audience to defend his assertion that non-Christians are followers of “false religion,” Republican candidate for lieutenant governor E.W. Jackson backed off to some degree.

The evangelical Christian minister from Chesapeake has been on the defensive for declaring in a sermon in Northern Virginia last month that people who don’t follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”

Note that he said it just last week; it’s not something dredged up, as they say, from the deep dark past.

Follow the link for his lame attempts to paint his comments as rational.

I’d like to say more, but I’m rather speechless. I think his conduct speaks quite nicely for itself, though.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch, usually a reliable right-wing lapdog, can’t bring itself to endorse him. It’s sitting out the endorsements this year.

Explicated here.

Watch the Duggars from some “reality” show or other try to record a spot for the Cooch.

There is a back story. Cooch is scraping an empty carton for endorsements.

Via the Richmonder.

Cory Dillard is vice chair of the Norfolk* Republican Party and was one of the organizers of the teabaggery in these parts. He’s had enough.

He details enough of what in my local rag. A nugget:

As a person who tries to put forth valid solutions to the problems of the day, I cannot continue to be aligned with a movement that would rather burn a house than work to put out its fire, whose victories history may largely record as pyrrhic.

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*Norfolk is as solidly Democratic as Virginia Beach is Republican.

A perfect threesome.

Let Dick Polman explain.

Not on local wingnut Bill DeSteph’s watch.

You betcha.