Go Cooch! You da Man. You've trounced Janet, now to bigger and more dangerous prey. Ken for Govenor, I say.

I made it a point to cast my ballot, absentee in person, last week before going on a trip to the west coast this week - and clearly, my vote counted! I did cast it for Ken Cuccinelli - and one of the big reasons was he was honest about his identity and knew the issues inside and out - and did not resort to personal attacks to try and win.

I was deeply troubled by Janet Oleszek constantly stating she represented the "views of most of the people in the 37th district" - well - she does not. Last time I checked, most of the 37th district, and the people within, are not "progressive democrat" - the fact that Janet tried to change her stripes in mid stream did not help her...anytime you are listed on web sites on the internet as a progressive (the Democrat version of a Neocon), it is hard to simply say "I am now a moderate"...she was not before, and is not now after the election, a moderate.

Speaking of moderation, how many of the Washington Post political coverage team are Republicans? Is there a balanced approach to reporting on this issue? It seems that this fact - that Oleszek tired to abandon her identity and go from far left to the center was not commented on...a fact that was noted by the Post in the Chap! versus Mrs Davis when she shifted from the center to left of her democrat challenger...is it only notable when a republican candidate shifts from their traditional positions on issues? Why was the Oleszek shift hardly covered? Could it be that there is a "blind spot" on this at the Post?

Tony, Of course you ask a retorical questions. The Post is a core member of the MSM and, as such, a tool of the Democrat Pary. This has been proven over and over. Their declining readership is blamed on the Internet and cable. Why then, is the Times readership increasing?

Does the Post even try to put an objective veener on its reporting?

My read is that Post reporters who report straight news have no future. The ones with a liberal spin such as Gardner and Craig get star billing.

Of course the Canvas returned the same results -- every auditor knows that transcription and transposition errors are consistent when the people who made the errors are the same people who re-check the numbers! (And, they did it manually -- with clipboards and pens! Unbelieveable when there is a complete electronic record of every vote cast stored in a database.) Let's see what the State Board of Elections (BOE) says when they go through the results. Presumably BOE will run an automated tally against the electronic database of votes cast then compare that to the manually compiled/reported numbers. It will be very interesting to see what differences show up. Rest assured, there will be differences because the manual process was rife with opportunities to make mistakes.

A newspaper writer ought to know the difference between "its" and "it's."

"..it's own certification process" should be "its...."

"It's" means "it is."