The R&B has endorsed Perriello.
Well, if this isn’t big news, I don’t know what is: the Danville Register & Bee has endorsed Tom Perriello for Congress. There’s no endorsement in the 5th District that’s harder to get, none more important than the R&B’s. As they point out, they’ve endorsed Virgil Goode every two years since 1996.
The editorial board writes [...]
What’s really going on with Goode and “Eden’s Curve”?
Brian McNeill has a lengthy narrative of the state of the Perriello/Goode race here in the Fifth District in Friday’s issue, highlighting yesterday’s revelation that “Eden’s Curve” was promoted using Goode’s fax number. Goode says he will be interviewing his staffers in order to investigate how that happened, showing that he agrees that it’s tough [...]
Gerson: Republicans are a victim of their enormous success.
If I were the type to drink coffee in the car, I would have spat coffee all over the windshield this morning when I heard Michael Gerson’s comments on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning:
The Republican Party is undergoing a strange transformation, because the issues that brought it popularity and power—tax rates, crime, welfare reform, a [...]
Vern Rupright for VP ‘16!
Cousin Vern has been elected mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
The R-TD endorses Gilmore at arm’s length.
I love the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s endorsement of Jim Gilmore for U.S. Senate. With an endorsement like that, who needs opponents?
Political philosophy of candidate, by top marginal tax rate supported.
Clip this and save it for future elections, so you can tell the difference at a glance.
Fifth District gets competitive, at last.
The Cook Political Report has upgraded VA-05 from from “Likely Republican” to “Leans Republican.” This is big, big news in this race, perhaps the biggest of the campaign. Cook is the first and last word in race competitiveness, and the district has never before shown up on their radar. Combine that with the $600k $300k [...]
Flier tells Hampton Roads Dems to vote Nov. 5.
Unknown Republicans are circulating a flier in Hampton Roads telling Democrats to vote a day late, and it’s being presented as an official statement by the State Board of Elections, Julian Walker writes in the Pilot. State police are investigating. What Walker doesn’t address is how widely and by what mechanism this is being circulated, [...]
Linwood Duncan quits working for Goode.
Linwood Duncan has resigned from his position with Rep. Virgil Goode “because of health reasons,” Bernard Baker writes in the Danville Register Bee. Duncan has worked for Goode since Goode was elected to congress in 1996. Duncan had a role in “Eden’s Curve,” to the homophobic Goode’s certain humiliation. That is, of course, the real [...]
“In Defense of White Americans.”
I’ve been working on a blog entry about the Republican Party’s continuing “real Americans” narrative, one that tripped up George Allen in 2006, but Frank Rich has, happily, done the job for me. Many Republicans seem terrified of the prospect of a majority-minority America (or so I assume, given their frequent warnings about such a [...]
A steady hand: Why voters are breaking for Obama.
Over at the Times, Stanley Fish offers a deft narrative of how the Barack Obama has managed to create and maintain such a solid lead:
The McCain campaign huffs and puffs and jumps from charge to charge: Obama consorts with terrorists; he’s a socialist; he’s a communist; he is un-American; he’s not one of us; he’s [...]
Can you help with some Richmond Sunlight technical needs?
Several people have e-mailed me recently, asking if there’s some way that they can lend their technical skills to help with Richmond Sunlight. And, yes, there absolutely is, and I have been remiss in not requesting such help here. These are a few things that are outside of my abilities that would be great if [...]
FiveThirtyEight visits town.
FiveThirtyEight visits Charlottesville, finds that Albemarle Republicans believe they have “the best Republican operation in the state.” Let’s hope that’s true.
From the annals of little-known survey biases.
Jim Gilmore’s campaign on why polls have their man with just 33% of the vote:
Dick Leggitt, a senior adviser to Gilmore, said the poll is inaccurate because “a lot of conservatives won’t talk to pollsters, and when they hang up, the results get skewed.” Leggitt added, “A lot of the questions are so long only [...]
New year’s resolution update.
My new year’s resolution was to become more physically fit.
Here’s the thing about becoming physically fit. It’s not actually very interesting. At all. It largely consists of picking up heavy things and putting them down again, combined with getting your heart rate up. You don’t have to know the difference between a tricep and an [...]
Palin is the biggest reason voters are hesitant to support McCain.
It’s official—Sarah Palin is now the top drag on McCain’s campaign, with an NBC/WSJ poll showing that she’s voters’ #1 worry about supporting McCain.
Have a very Annie Christmas.
Ado Annie is going on Christmas cards. (Personally, I think this is a Christmasyier photo.) Today, by the way, is her seventh birthday. Frosty Paws for everybody!
McCain enabling socialism?
President Bush said in 2004:
I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That’s what happened in the — after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I’ve earned capital in this election — and I’m going to spend it for what I told the [...]
Common misconceptions.
This Wikipedia entry was made for me: “List of common misconceptions.” It turns out that lots of stuff is visible from space, meteorites aren’t hot when they land, earthworms don’t duplicate when cut in half, Marie Antoinette probably never said “let them eat cake,” Mussolini didn’t make the trains run on time, Napoleon wasn’t short, [...]
RPV/DPVA newsletter tag clouds.
I put together tag clouds for the RPV and the DPVA’s respective newsletters, using every e-mail they’ve sent since their respective national conventions.
The RPV:
ad america american barack biden campaign chairman change click debate democrats election fannie fight friends governor help joe john keep making mark mccain media nation obama palin party past [...]
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