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Less than an hour after the polls closed, it was clear to at least one person inside the ballroom of the Omni Hotel who had won.
At around 7:30pm, veteran political reporter turned political center director Bob Gibson leaned over the shoulder of a Deeds campaign staffer to have a look at the election returns on his laptop.
"You're winning Arlington?" asked Gibson, incredulously.
Sure enough with 33 percent of precincts reporting, the soft-spoken country lawyer from Bath County was beating two political heavyweights from Northern Virginia in their own backyard.
Gibson, now the executive director of UVA's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, shook his head.
"It's over."
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