What time will Virginia be called and for whom?

[pbrower2a]

The news media were slow to call Virginia because it hadn't gone for a Republican nominee for President since the LBJ landslide of 1964. Contrast Iowa, an instant call -- but it had gone four of the last five Presidential elections and showed no sign of being a nailbiter. Iowa didn't go that much more for President Obama than did Virginia. Virginia just had not gone for a Democrat in a close Presidential election since 1948.

If the returns of votes in Virginia look like a replay of 2008, then Virginia will be called much earlier this time even if it is slightly closer.