Virginia Senate Candidates for Senator, VA Election Race 2012

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Virginia Candidates

Virginia Senator Candidates

State Primary on June 12, 2012

Virginia Senator Election Race

Heritage Foundation Scorecard for Virginia Candidates

VA 2 Rep. Scott Rigell R 71%
VA 6 Rep. Robert Goodlatte R 70%
VA 5 Rep. Robert Hurt R 70%
VA 9 Rep. Morgan Griffith R 63%
VA 4 Rep. J. Forbes R 62%
VA 10 Rep. Frank Wolf R 62%
VA 1 Rep. Robert Wittman R 61%
VA 7 Rep. Eric Cantor R 59%
VA 11 Rep. Gerald Connolly D 19%
VA 8 Rep. James Moran D 17%
VA 3 Rep. Robert Scott D 14%
VA VA Sen. Jim Webb D 10%
VA VA Sen. Mark Warner D 10%
Rep. Scott Rigell VA 71%
Rep. Robert Goodlatte VA 70%
Rep. Robert Hurt VA 70%
Rep. Morgan Griffith VA 63%
Rep. J. Forbes VA 62%

Republican Senator Candidates

George Allen (R)
E.W. Jackson Sr. (R)
Bob Marshall (R)
David McCormick (R)
Jamie Radtke (R)

Democrat Senator Candidates

Tim Kaine (D)
Julien Modica (D)
Courtney Lynch (D)

Independent Senator Candidates

Kevin Chisholm (Independent)
Robert Lee (Independent)
David Stroupe (Independent)

Virginia Candidates for US Congress from VA

District 1:
Adam Cook (D)
Rob Wittman (R)

District 2:
Paul Hirschbiel (D)
Scott Rigell (R)

District 3:
Bobby Scott (D)
Dean Longo (R)
Chuck Smith (R)

District 4:
Ella Ward (D)
Randy Forbes (R)

District 5:
Robert Hurt (R)

District 6:
Andy Schmookler (D)
Bob Goodlatte (R)
Karen Kwiatkowski (R/Libertarian)

District 7:
David Hunsicker (D)
E. Wayne Powell (D)
Eric Cantor (R)

District 8:
Jim Moran (D)
Patrick Murray (R)

District 9:
Morgan Griffith (R)

District 10:
Frank Wolf (R)
John Douglass (D)

District 11:
Gerry Connolly (D)
Keith Fimian (R)
Chris Perkins (R)
Ken Vaughn (R)
Steven Yeh (R)
Joe Galdo (Green)

 

History of Virginia. Information that every Virginia Election Candidates for US Senate Should Know:

In 1868, under railroad baron Collis P. Huntington, the Virginia Central Railroad was merged and transformed into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. In 1870, several railroads were merged to form the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, later renamed Norfolk & Western. In 1880, the towpath of the now-defunct James River & Kanawha canal was transformed into the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, which within a decade would merge into the Chesapeake & Ohio. Others would include the Southern Railroad, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Atlantic Coast Line; still others would eventually reach into Virginia, including the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The rebuilt Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad eventually was linked to Washington, D.C.

In the 1880s, the Pocahontas Coalfield opened up in far southwest Virginia, with others to follow, in turn providing more demand for railroads transportation. In 1909, the Virginian Railway opened, built for the express purpose of hauling coal from the mountains of West Virginia to the ports at Hampton Roads. The growth of railroads resulted in the creation of new towns and rapid growth of others, including Clifton Forge, Roanoke, Crewe and Victoria. The railroad boom was not without incident: the Wreck of the Old 97 occurred en route from Danville to North Carolina in 1903, later immortalized by a popular ballad.

With the invention of the cigarette rolling machine, and the great increase in smoking in the early twentieth century, cigarettes and other tobacco products became a major industry in Richmond and Petersburg. Tobacco magnates such as Lewis Ginter funded a number of public institutions.