VA: Key conservative slots in jeopardy at the polls?

Victoria Cobb is president of The Family Foundation of Virginia, which has been in the trenches for years at the state capitol with other groups fighting for pro-family legislation. Cobb says all 140 seats in both houses of the legislature are up for grabs, and conservative voters need to turn out at the polls to preserve progress that pro-life and pro-family leaders have made -- like helping pass a marriage amendment, and religious freedom and Internet safety bills.

"Our concern is ... there are some wonderful candidates who have really represented our values who are in significant jeopardy of losing their ability to influence legislation," she laments.

Cobb says northern Virginia conservative legislators and their seats are being targeted by national organizations like NARAL Pro-Choice America (formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League [NARAL]) and the pro-homosexual lobby Human Rights Commission (HRC) -- groups that are pumping in campaign money from out-of-state to more liberal and left-leaning opponents.

The pro-family activist's concern is that the reality of changing voter demographics in that part of the state, along with discouragement on the part of values voters regarding state taxes and lack of clearly pronounced pro-family leaders in other parts of the state, may discourage them from coming out to the polls.

Inaction by voters is not the solution, says Cobb. "We are trying to encourage folks that we have to take action in order to fix things," she shares. "We have a challenge, and our candidates have a challenge -- and so we are just hoping that folks will pray first, and vote second."