The 58th’s move leftward.

I live in Del. Rob Bell’s district, the 58th, and I’ve been keeping an eye on the voting trends here. Perriello defeated Goode in this district by 25,826 votes to 20,996 votes, or with 55% of the vote. (Note that Orange County is not in the 5th Congressional District, so I substituted the presidential numbers …

Martinsville: Stuck with the check and a worthless building.

You might remember the MZM building in Martinsville. That’s the consolation prize that the city was left with after Rep. Virgil Goode convinced the city to cosign on the state’s incentive package for MZM to move in. The company was exposed for giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent donations to Goode, they disappeared, …

Perriello vote-counting JavaScript.

Spending every waking hour obsessively checking on the status of the SBE canvas in the 5th District? Here’s a little something to make your life easier: If you’re a blogger, just insert this code into your site to give your readers the latest numbers: <script src="http://waldo.jaquith.org/recount/perriello.js" type="text/javascript"></script> It’s updated every five minutes with data from …

A Goode imponderable.

I wonder what happened to that investigation that Virgil Goode was going to launch into his Danville office staff yesterday. How did it go? We’ll be getting the results of that soon, right? My guess: He wasn’t banking on a recount. If he lost, nobody would care. If he won, he could pull a Schwarzenegger …

How Tom Perriello’s race against Virgil Goode became an even match.

A year ago, if you asked me, I would have told you Tom Perriello had perhaps a 5% chance of defeating Rep. Virgil Goode here in the Fifth District. In fact, Perriello asked me what his odds were a little over a year ago, and that’s pretty much what I told him, albeit over the …

The R&B has endorsed Perriello.

Well, if this isn’t big news, I don’t know what is: the Danville Register & Bee has endorsed Tom Perriello for Congress. There’s no endorsement in the 5th District that’s harder to get, none more important than the R&B’s. As they point out, they’ve endorsed Virgil Goode every two years since 1996. The editorial board …

What’s really going on with Goode and “Eden’s Curve”?

Brian McNeill has a lengthy narrative of the state of the Perriello/Goode race here in the Fifth District in Friday’s issue, highlighting yesterday’s revelation that “Eden’s Curve” was promoted using Goode’s fax number. Goode says he will be interviewing his staffers in order to investigate how that happened, showing that he agrees that it’s tough …

Fifth District gets competitive, at last.

The Cook Political Report has upgraded VA-05 from from “Likely Republican” to “Leans Republican.” This is big, big news in this race, perhaps the biggest of the campaign. Cook is the first and last word in race competitiveness, and the district has never before shown up on their radar. Combine that with the $600k $300k …