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Election
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Independent, posted slightly more than 2 percent statewide and in Rappahannock after struggling to gain any traction during the campaign.
Turnout statewide was lighter than it was four years ago at about 41 percent.
Here in Rappahannock, it was slightly better at 53 percent, but Rappahannock usually posts higher voter turnout than the norm.
Kaine, who billed himself as the heir apparent to Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, will succeed the popular Northern Virginian who is limited to one term by the state constitution.
Kaine took four of the six precincts in Rappahannock county losing out to Kilgore only in Amissville and Chester Gap.
“It was very close. I’m surprised. I thought it would be a little more Republican,” said Carolyn Thornton of Sperry - ville.
Republicans narrowly edged the Democrats in the other two statewide races.
Hanover Sen. Bill Bolling won 51 percent of the overall state vote in the lieutenant governor’s race to nudge Fairfax’s Leslie Byrne, a former state legislator and congresswoman.
However, Byrne narrowly won Rappahannock. Precincts in the county were evenly split between the two, with Bolling taking Amissville, Scrabble, and Chester Gap while Byrne won in Washington, Sperryville, and Flint Hill
Virginia Beach Del. Bob McDonnell squeaked by Bath County Sen. Creigh Deeds with slightly more than 50 percent of the statewide vote in the attorney general’s race. In Rappahannock Deeds won by a narrow margin of 80 votes., or 51%.
Tom McGehee, 58, of Annandale, said McDonnell’s push to crack down on illegal immigration motivated him.
“Regardless of where you stand on the immigration issue, it’s time for someone to
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