The waiting game (this one, at least) is over: President Obama chatted by phone Wednesday with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine regarding the race to replace Sen Jim Webb, D-Va., a DNC official confirmed.

All eyes in the Democratic universe immediately fixed on Kaine, a former Virginia governor, after Webb announced he would not run for re-election in 2012.

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