that this turns VA blue!

Funny,

Only a few years ago pundits were saying "liberal" blogs - I consider Raising Kaine progressive, but may have been termed liberal - would divide the electorate even more, especially in Virginia, where we may "offend" conservatives.  Instead, it has been blogs like Raising Kaine that try to fight for good government and expose bad government.  Raising Kaine stood against the Democratic establishment in 2006 to promote "outsider" Jim Webb.  Now Webb is one of the most popular Senators, nationally.  Now, Virginians are starting to come to the realization that these supposed "liberals" who started blogs like ours did so because we actually wanted better government for our state and our families.  The conservative blogs are ideologues.  That is a problem.  But, we are not ideologues.  And we have seen Virginians realize the errors of Bush, and the Republicans, and now are backing good government - delivered by people like Obama.

I think our blog and Daily Kos demand good government.  I believe that no matter how much any of us support Obama, our support will always be conditional on him providing us good government.  Conservative blogs trying to divide us, rarely criticize their own.

...how does it relate to the topic of this diary and/or what is it in response to?  Thanks.

My point was not properly prefaced.  It is that Virginia is becoming more progressive.  Yet, some Republican pundits say liberal blogs would divide Virginia.  That is apparently not the case, since Virginia is apparently all about Obama.

New statistics (presumably final) show that 436,000 new voters have been added to the rolls since January.  Included in that number are 61,000 new voters in Fairfax County alone.  According to a local paper, 95 percent of eligible voters in Albemarle County are now registered (67,000 registered voters now) and 80 percent of eligible Charlottesville residents are now registered (about 29,000 registered voters)  This 436,000 figure alone is enough to overcome Bush's '04 lead and then some.  Our next goal should be to make sure all of our voters get out on Election Day and that no eligible voter is denied their right to vote.  In other words, there is still plenty of work to be done but things are looking good for us right now.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com...

I don't trust the polls really.  But I've been personally using them to taunt and demoralize every conservative I can find.  

Another week of polls like these and alot of conservatives will find better things to do than stand in long lines to vote on Nov. 4.