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His storied election behind him and weighty problems in his face, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to the task of building an administration in times of crisis as Americans and the world absorbed his history-shattering achievement as the first black leader ascending to the presidency.
Barack Obama chose Mark Warner, Virginia's Senate candidate and former governor, to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic convention, underscoring Democrats' all-out effort to win the Southern state for the first time since 1964.
The only remedy to a series of Iraq policy failures by President Bush is a Democratic takeover of Congress in the Nov. 7 election, Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb said Saturday.
Republican Sen. George Allen and his Democratic challenger, Jim Webb, are still locked in a very close race, according to a statewide poll published Sunday.
National Democratic leaders on Wednesday relished the prospect of James Webb, a war hero and former Reagan Navy secretary, challenging Republican Sen. George Allen this November. But beating Allen, a well-liked former Virginia governor who's also weighing a White House bid, will be a struggle, even for a Republican-turned-Democrat with Webb's made-for-the-movies portfolio.
22nd Virginia Senate District Race heats upVirginia was long ruled by Democrats before Republicans won the majority in the mid-90's. Since then Republicans have gerrymandered the state to favor Democrats.
Va. Democrats pick up state Senate seatFormer Loudoun County supervisor Mark Herring defeated Mick Staton Jr. in a special election to pick up a seat for the Democrats in the Virginia state Senate.
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