First-term Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia will retire when his term ends next year.
Webb made his announcement via e-mail, “after much thought and consideration I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life, and will not seek re-election in 2012.”
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Democrats must now find a viable candidate to run in what will be a very hot senate race in the Old Dominion. On the Republican side, former Virginia Governor and Senator George Allen has already announced his intentions to recapture the seat Webb took away from him in 2006
