The Virginia Senate Seat is a local election in which i decided to take a closer look at. The 2008 eletion will determine who will rep. the state in the US Senate. With John Warner not up for re-election due to retirement after 5 years, this will be a more open voting campaign. The candidates include former Govenors of VA Mark Warner(democrat) and Jim Gilmore (republican), and Bill Redpath (libertarian) and Glenda Gail Parker (green).
With looking at current results from recent polls conducted for the running of the candidates, the rade is definately "Democratic favored". With new stats, Warner leads with 57% and Gilmore 31% ,The poll was conducted with 625 registered voters. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Jim Gilmore campaigned for the Presidential nomination in 2007 until he became the frist hard core Republican to drop out. After leaving, he was nominated as the Repub. candidate for the VA Senate. As of today, he is the Chair man of the National Council on readiness and Preparedness which has to do with social security. Along with that he is the President of a non-profit homeland security institution. Gilmore also is largely involved with the National Rifle Association in which protects the second ammendment.
Mark Warner was exspected to go on with the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, yet he announced in 2006 that he would not run due to his family. Having been offered the potential of being the Democratic vice presidential pick, he turned it down considering he recieved a nomination for US senate in which he claims is the best of the best.Warner involved himself in public efforts related to health care, telecommunications, info technology, and education.Governor Warner believes we need to bring a transformative change to our national energy policy,that we need to work with our military leaders to develop a responsible plan, is committed to bringing leadership to the fight to fix our country’s health care system and wants to put America on the economic offensive.
Bill Redpath is the chairman of the United States Libertarian Party. On March 29, 2008, the Libertarian Party of Virginia state convention voted to nominate him as the party's official candidate. He follows the role of an average Libertarian, Freedom of trade, details on immigration, and laissez Faire markets.
Glenda Gail Parker calims we need high-speed Rail nationwide: reliable, clean, efficient, quiet, safe Rail service. She is a Businesswoman ,US Air Force Officer , Retired civilian executive budget analyst ,Mother of three grown children, grandmother of five.
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I wish that Mark Warner had been chosen by Obama for VP, he is a real stand up guy. I also believe that it is important for him to win this position as Senator. In other states though i hope that people vote republican because if the democrats totally dominate the senate then many bills will be passed that will not help our country. If Al Franken wins in Minnesota that will be a disaster.
I think its good that John Warner is retiring, and bringing in Democrat Mark Warner would be a good change for the Virginia Senate. I think Warner has a good heart and makes great efforts to help the people. I like your short bio's of the candidates and it shows that Redpath and Parker don't have as much important backround information and it also shows that Libertarians and Greens don't have a large chance of being elected into the Senate.
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