| Leslie Byrne | 8,004 | 33.4% |
Gerry Connolly  | 13,856 | 57.8% |
Virginia Results: VA SBE | Associated Press
| Blaine Lotz | 8,177 | 33% |
| Rob Miller | 16,804 | 67% |
South Carolina Results: SC SEC | Associated Press
9:18PM: The AP has called VA-11 for Gerry Connolly.
8:52PM: Linda Ketner wins the SC-01 Dem primary.
8:45PM: The AP has called the SC-02 primary for Rob Miller!
8:30PM: With 42% in, Ketner is starting to pull away at 63% to Frasier’s 37%, and Judy Feder wins the Dem nod in VA-10.
8:18PM: Miller is back up 60-40 with 37% reporting.
8:10PM: Lotz just opened up an 8 point lead on Miller with 23% reporting. Over in SC-01, Ketner has a 10 point lead with 10% reporting.
7:58PM: Something to keep an eye on: Linda Ketner, a fundraising powerhouse in SC-01, is only ahead of her primary opponent, Ben Frasier, by 56-44 with 4% in.
7:55PM: I’m back, and Connolly is blowing Byrne away.
7:32PM Eastern: I won’t be updating these numbers for a few minutes, as I’m just going to get a quick bite to eat. Please check the results links above for the latest updates. Thanks.
Polls close in Virginia and South Carolina at 7pm Eastern. We’ll be using this thread to follow the returns in two key races: VA-11, where Leslie Byrne and Gerry Connolly are facing off, and SC-02, where voters are choosing between fighting Democrats Rob Miller and Blaine Lotz.
I’m expecting Connelly to win the VA-11 because this is district that should have yielded a “better” Democrat. I hope we can find a credible primary challenger in 2010.
The most exciting and excitable and entertaining, not entirely objective, coverage of this North Virginia primary, up close:
http://notlarrysabato.typepad….
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So far it appears Fairfax is more favorable to Connolly and Prince William to Byrne. Is this what we should expect?
This is going to stink big-time if Byrne loses the primary. I was really pulling for her- I hope she can get it.
Judy Feder should have no problem in VA-10.
Can someone tell me just why Tim Kaine endorsed Connelly?
Well say hello to Rep. Connelly.
Ugg.
Looks like Byrne’s lost and Feder’s won (as has Moran, of course), so I’m reduced to rooting for Amit Singh, the Ron Paul Republican in VA-08, just to liven things up for the Virginia Republicans. That primary is surprisingly close, with Singh less than 100 votes behind with maybe 3,000 remaining.
He’s taking nearly 30% of the repub primary vote from Lindsey Graham in the SC-Senate race.
I was looking at the numbers and they don’t look good at all
2 state senate Republicans down (Scott and Ceips)
2 state senate Republicans in runoffs (Jim, Knotts)
4 state house Republicans down (Leach, Haskins, Davenport, Walker [19 votes])
1 state house Democrat down (Smith HD23)
2 state house Democrats in runoffs (Kennedy and Brantley)
And that’s just amongst incumbents
i, too have found the bloggers’ vitriol for gerry connolly inexplicable and self destructive. he’s a county supervisor who is “friendly with developers” and outrageously, he seems to be popular and win all his elections. who builds housing and stores in your neighborhoods? or should we not build new housing (which coincidentally houses all the new democrats in NOVA).
this is a D1 district at best and our only chance to win and hold the seat is with a moderate. “better democrats” make sense in D20+ districts but not D1s.
and why did a bunch of SC incumbents lose their primaries?
http://cookpolitical.com/
He rarely does that this early in a cycle unless he’s damn sure the seat is goinng flip.