The results are in!

The Virginia primaries were held on Tuesday with some pretty unsurprising results. Barack Obama took it for the democrats, and John McCain brought it home for the republicans. Here are the official tallies:

For the democrats:

Barack Obama received 627,472 votes, totaling 63.65 percent of the voting population

Hillary Clinton received 349,607 votes, totaling 35.46 percent of the voting population

John Edwards received 5,190 votes, totaling 0.52 percent of the voting population

Dennis J. Kucinich received 1,635 votes, totaling 0.16 percent of the voting population

Bill Richardson received 990 votes, totaling 0.10 percent of the voting population

Joe Biden received 804 votes, totaling 0.08 percent of the voting population

Voter Turnout:

985,698 of 4,465,547 active voters voted, totaling 22.07 percent
985,698 of 4,618,188 total voters voted, totaling 21.34 percent

For the republicans:

John McCain received 243,980 votes, totaling 50.04 percent of the voting population

Mike Huckabee received 198,787 votes, totaling 40.77 percent of the voting population

Ron Paul received 21,866 votes, totaling 4.48 percent of the voting population

Mitt Romney received 17,498 votes, totaling 3.58 percent of the voting population

Fred D. Thompson received 3,368 votes, totaling 0.69 percent of the voting population

Rudy Giuliani received 1,975 votes, totaling 0.40 percent of the population

Voter Turnout:

487,474 of 4,465,547 active voters voted, totaling 10.91 percent
487,474 of 4,618,188 total voters voted, totaling 10.55 percent

As a voter, who is allowed to have an opinion, mine is as follows:

I thought that given the Obama craze at JMU that he would take the democrats, and McCain seemed a sure thing for the republicans from the get go. What stunk was voter turnout. I was shocked that more democrats made it out to the polls than republicans in such a conservative area (why can't it work that way in the actual presidential elections?), but all in all the numbers just weren't good enough.

There's no excuse for not voting. Like Diddy said, "Vote or die."