As Virginia goes, so goes America in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. That’s what many are saying as Virginia Republicans, who lost the congressional majority in 2008, hope to turn that around by picking up at least three congressional seats. Will a House bloodbath for Democrats take place across the Commonwealth as well as America?
Two Democratic freshmen, Glenn Nye (VA-2) and Tom Perriello (VA-5), who swept in on Obama’s 2008 coattails, are in trouble. Ironically, Perriello voted for ObamaCare while Nye voted against it; yet, in the current anti-Obama atmosphere, they are both in danger of being swept out of office. Polls have shown their Republican challengers — military veteran Scott Rigell in VA-2 and State Senator Robert Hurt in VA-5 — ahead in both races, and the two districts have been included in Time Magazine’s Top 40 nationwide races to watch.
