Tim Kaine Defeats George Allen In Virginia Senate Race

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Democrat Tim Kaine defeated Republican George Allen on Tuesday night in a close and widely watched Senate contest in Virginia.

CBS News and NBC called the race for Kaine, a former governor of Virginia and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He ran as a pragmatic problem-solver in the important swing state and painted Allen as an ideologue wedded to the tea party.

“I’ve called Tim and congratulated him,” Allen told his supporters during his concession speech, as he thanked them. “We still remain friends personally and that’s an important thing. I’ve congratulated him and pledged my support as he takes on the task of (representing the people of Virginia). It has been a long and difficult campaign,” he said. “It’s also been a joyful one.”

Kaine will replace retiring one-term Sen. Jim Webb (D). Allen is a former Virginia senator and governor.

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[PossumSqueezins]

1. Macaca.

That's all. Just macaca.

That really says it all.

[Scairp]

2. Hope that is the last we see of him

Well, we CAN hope can't we?

[The Wizard]

3. The guy who named his kids

after the founder of the Klan gets the boot.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. The stain of macaca will never let this asshole down.

Good riddance! Go Kaine!

[DCBob]

5. Thank goodness.. I was a bit worried about this one.

Macaca go home!!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Never worried at all about this race. Kaine was consistently ahead right up to Election Day.

And we worked incredibly hard in VA to make sure people there remembered how well Kaine served them as governor.

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[Monk06]

7. This election just keeps getting better and better. All the right people are getting sent home.

[tclambert]

8. Yay!

[Aristus]

10. If macaca's only failing was that he wears cowboy boots with a suit,

I'd still despise the motherfucker. Goodbye for good, I hope, to that shit-for-brains fuckbasket...

[tabasco]

11. Thank you Virginia!

Kaine is brilliant!

[TheDonkey]

12. I'm happy for Kaine. He's been an Obama ally since the start and the media was trying

to attack him for that.

[forestpath]

13. I was on a conference/town hall call with Tim Kaine last week...

he recited a list of five issues and asked those of us on the call to vote for the one that was most important to us.

The last one he mentioned was women's rights/civil rights. It won by a landslide.

I feel good.