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Last Updated on Friday, 6 November 2009 12:36 Written by rslcpol Friday, 6 November 2009 12:36
From the Washington Post:
Fresh from an election in which Republicans knocked off several entrenched Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the state’s GOP is poised to usher in a new era of tougher two-party politics in Northern Virginia, political observers say.
The defeat of several incumbents Tuesday marked a change from recent elections. During the past 14 years, nearly all of the state’s delegates have been reelected, according to results analyzed by the nonprofit Virginia Public Access Project. This year’s 90 percent reelection rate was the lowest since 1995.