Virginia News

NRA Uses Offensive Italian Stereotype To Promote Bob McDonnell

And people wonder why the NRA’s political swagger isn’t what it used to be.

This ad is just clumsy, offensive, and stupid. So yeah, just like the NRA.
The ad is very reminiscent of the ad the conservative Free Enterprise Fund ran against Bob Menendez in 2006. That didn’t work.

Jonathan Martin, Virginia GOP Operative Embedded At Politico?

Ah, smell test.
Martin served on the campaign staff of Mark Earley, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in 2001. After Mark Warner was elected Governor over Earley with 52 percent of the vote, Martin relocated to Connecticut to work on the successful 2002 Congressional campaign of Connecticut Republican Rob Simmons. After Simmons assumed office, [...]

Redskins Donate To Bob McDonnell

The suck moves to another venue. Gah!
The NFL franchise donated $50,000 to Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (R), who holds a high-single digit lead over his opponent Creigh Deeds (D), according to a Washington Post report.
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to hate Dan Snyder.

Bob McDonnell Campaign In Stuttering Flap

Ah, those black Republicans conservatives strike again.
The billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television apologized Monday for pretending to stutter at a campaign event as she mimicked the Democratic candidate for governor.
BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, for years a major donor to President Barack Obama, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and other Democrats, stunned Virginia political observers in [...]

Is The Tax Issue Dead?

In the last few years Republicans have not had a lot of success with their traditional attacks on Democrats as tax and spenders. I don’t know if the change is because people post-Bush have a different view of the role of government, or if they’re just tired of the same old line from the GOP. [...]

Virginia Gov. Candidate Bob McDonnell Said Working Women, Feminists “Detrimental” To The Family

Yet again, they are who we think they are.
At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” [...]

Virginia Chooses Wisely (Again)

Last year Virginia played an important role in choosing now-President Obama in the Democratic primaries, showing that he did have strength in that swing state and we later turned the commonwealth blue in November. Now Virginia has chosen Creigh Deeds over Terry McAuliffe whose claim to fame to date had been presiding over one of [...]

GOP Deathwish Watch

In Virginia… Virginia! The Republicans recently oustered the state party chairman after the state went blue for President Obama. So now apparently some are talking up George “Macaca” Allen as a replacement.
Seriously?
Look, I’m a Democrat who wants to see Democrats win, but as the Republicans of the last decade show us if you aren’t challenged [...]

Brian Moran & The Dept Of Unfortunate Positioning

Yes, I am 5 years old.

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Chairman Kaine

Virginia’s homegrown eyebrow, Tim Kaine, will be the new DNC chairman.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will become chairman of the Democratic National Committee later this month, serving as the top political messenger for Barack Obama’s administration even while he finishes his final year in the governor’s mansion, several sources said.
Since the chairman is usually [...]

No On McAuliffe

To break my moratorium on election talk, please somebody decent in the Democratic party oppose Terry McAuliffe running for governor of Virginia. He’s just… wrong. Virginia is newly blue and I’d like to keep it that way.

85,000 In Manassas Virginia For Change

Together, we can change the world.
Sen. Barack Obama saved his biggest Virginia rally for last — bringing out more than 85,000 people to the Prince William County Fairgrounds on the eve of Election Day.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s final major rally before voters head to the polls brought Obama back to where he kicked off his [...]

Cave-In?

New poll (pdf) shows Obama +11 over McCain in Virginia…
ALSO: New polls show a 2-4 point lead for McCain… in Arizona! He’ll likely win it, but by comparison Sen. Obama has about a 25% lead in Illinois.

Obama: No Fake Americas And Real Americas

“With the challenges facing us we can’t afford to divide this country”

13 days. 13 days, sweet Jesus.

Chilling Sense Of Anticipation

That’s the feeling I get reading about the Obama volunteers in Northern Virginia.
I wonder if, on some level, these great people are like those who worked with Dr. King some 40+ years ago?

“The Real Virginia” Becomes An Anchor

The “real Virginia” crack is leading the local news here. Not good for McCain at all. It’s like the Clinton campaign’s refrain about which states did and didn’t count but far far worse. Virginia was already leaning Obama, this may lock it in.
WUSA Channel 9’s (the CBS affiliate) open to the 11PM news: “If you’re [...]

McCain Campaign: Northern Virginia Isn’t “Real” Virginia

Because, you know they’ve got all those Democrats and minorities in Northern Virginia. Yesterday Sarah Palin said some states were pro-America and some weren’t. Now they’ve ratcheted it up so that even within some states the residents aren’t “real” Americans.

These people make me sick.
>> McCain Campaign Channels George Allen: NOVA is not “Real Virginia”

Blue Dominion

New polls from Virginia.
SurveyUSA: 53% Obama 43% McCain
Suffolk: 51% Obama 39% McCain
Yes, that’s right. Barack Obama has a double digit lead in two polls over John McCain.
In Virginia.
Get to work, America.

VA Republicans: We Could Lose!

Last week Republicans in Florida had a special meeting to discuss McCain’s eroding support there. Then Michigan Republicans wailed about McCain retreating there. Now in Virginia, Republicans are facing the very real chance that they too will lose.
Since this election season began, I’ve believed that Virginia will go Democratic. Thanks to us Marylanders moving in [...]

McCain Campaign Goes To The Racist Well In Virginia

McCain campaign rep in Virginia goes there.
In ‘humor’ he accuses Obama of wanting to paint the White House black, supporting reparations, changing the national anthem to the ‘black national anthem’, teaching ‘black liberation theology in all churches’, and replacing the flag with a ’star and crescent logo’.
ALSO: MaverickTM’s brother called Arlington and Alexandria “communist country”.