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02/16/11 Democratic insiders think Tom Perriello is too supportive of the president's agenda to run for Senate, so that's why they're backing the chair of the DNC, instead. Darell Issa has somehow offended stoners, safe sex advocates and uteruses all in the same week.
12/28/10 Listen to the Audio MARGARET WARNER: This week, as the year comes to a close, we begin a series of interviews with congressional Democrats defeated at the polls in November. First up: Tom Perriello of Virginia. He was swept into office in the Obama wave of 2008, only to be swept out in the Republican wave of 2010. Judy Woodruff recently spoke with the departing congressman on Capitol Hill. JUDY ...
11/09/10 Charlottesville area officials say President Barack Obama's recent trip to campaign for U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello cost area governments at least $39,000 in overtime.
11/05/10 Voters in the 5th District — which includes Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Greene and Buckingham — will pick between freshman incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt of Chatham and independent conservative Jeff Clark of Danville.
11/03/10 The 5th District has elected a new congressman: Robert Hurt. Hurt, a Republican state senator from Chatham, unseated U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Albemarle County, on Tuesday. Perriello lost his bid for a second two-year term in Congress.
11/02/10 November 2, 2010--Ivy, VA--Rep. Tom Perriello released the following statement:
11/02/10 No congressman works harder and cares more about his constituents than 5th District U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, according to Sen. Mark Warner.
11/01/10 DANVILLE -- In the final hours before the polls open today, both major-party candidates in the 5th District brought in big-name supporters with a common message: Call everyone you know and "get out the vote." Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, and his Republican challenger, state Sen. Robert Hurt, fight once and ...
10/31/10 Cantor, McDonnell, Cuccinelli, Bolling appear at Charlottesville rally for challenger to Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th.
10/31/10 Republicans are crying foul over a series of mail pieces sent by Democrats — and another sent anonymously — that allude to independent candidate Jeff Clark being the most “social and fiscal” conservative in the hotly contested congressional race between U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and Republican Robert Hurt.
10/29/10 ALTAVISTA — Rep. Tom Perriello traveled with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack into the 5th District on Thursday to promote benefits received through the federal stimulus bill and talk with farmers in Bedford County.
10/29/10 People lined up for nine blocks in downtown Charlottesville on Friday for Obama's visit to aid endangered Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello
10/29/10 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama is proving he can still draw a crowd. People lined up for nine blocks in downtown Charlottesville on Friday for Obama's visit to aid endangered Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello.
10/29/10 Thousands pack outdoor amphitheater to hear speech. On Friday night, President Obama returned to the same venue to campaign for Rep. Tom Perriello, an endangered freshman Democrat running in a moderate-to-conservative rural district with their party now unpopular.
10/28/10 Candidates are in full campaign mode ahead of midterm elections that will likely spell out how the health law is implemented. The New York Times reports that some Democrats are playing defense after voting for health reform. They include Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello who is running against Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt. "If Mr. Hurt was reading from his party's playbook, so was Mr. Perriello ...
10/28/10 It's late in the game, but the Virginia congressman is basking in the spotlight. He got some airtime with Stephen Colbert, and President Obama plans to visit. Democrats are hoping to make this race tighter, says one expert. Perriello did, after all, beat out longtime Republican Rep. Virgil Goode two years ago by just 727 votes. Whatever voters decide Tuesday, Rep. Tom Perriello, a freshman ...
10/27/10 Perriello defends record, Hurt presses the attack on federal spending and health care reform Debate season continued Wednesday night in Lynchburg, as Democratic Congressman Tom Perriello and Republican challenger Robert Hurt squared off at Randolph College.
10/27/10 Candidates are in full campaign mode ahead of midterm elections that will likely spell out how the health law is implemented. The New York Times reports that some Democrats are playing defense after voting for health reform. They include Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello who is running against Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt.
10/26/10 President Barack Obama will rally voters in Charlottesville on Friday for Rep. Tom Perriello, hoping to energize the base that first carried the freshman Democrat to victory. Perriello is fighting to hold off a challenge from state Sen. Robert Hurt, R-Pittsylvania, who has sought throughout the campaign to link Perriello ...
10/26/10 Both Democrats and the GOP are looking to capitalize on the president's support of Rep. Tom Perriello.
10/25/10 Rep. Tom Perriello is taking a whirlwind tour of the Fifth District Monday, beginning at midnight Sunday into Monday at Ferrum College, and running until about midnight Monday night — a schedule his campaign calls a “24 hours of Tom” blitz. | 
