Eli could upset Va. incumbent in race
Three months ago, most everyone had written off Tom Perriello’s congressional campaign.
He was behind 30 percentage points in the polls. Victory would be near impossible — or so everyone thought.
After a night of watching election returns that were as volatile as the Dow Jones Industrials Index, Perriello ’96 LAW ’01 was on his way to representing Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. In an monumentally close race, Perriello was shown leading his opponent, Republican Rep. Virgil Goode, by a mere 31 votes with all precincts reporting, in unofficial results provided by the...
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