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Candidates Hustle on a Day of Politics and Parades
Anna Hawk, 2, watches the annual Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Parade. Several candidates seeking to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes were also in attendance.
(By Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post)
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The region's shift -- with Fairfax County voting for John F. Kerry in 2004 and Kaine adding Loudoun and Prince William counties for a sweep of Northern Virginia a year later -- is the great hope of Virginia Democrats.
A Webb victory, Warner said yesterday, would cement the notion that Virginia has changed since the late 1990s, when GOP control of the legislature and the governor's mansion seemed to indicate an overwhelmingly conservative electorate.
For his part, Allen dismissed polls that suggested the race was tied as "all very interesting to political scientists."
"I majored in history," he said, "not political science."
Staff writers Michael Laris, Michael D. Shear, Elissa Silverman, Nikita Stewart and Nancy Trejos contributed to this report.
Post questions about the local elections for Robert Barnes on washingtonpost.com. He will answer them on his weekly chat, Beltway and Beyond, at 2 p.m. Thursday.
