Poll puts Deeds at top among 18-29 year olds.
Public Policy Polling has a new poll in the statewide primaries. (FWIW, don’t recognize this outfit’s name.) They’ve got Brian Moran at 22%, Terry McAuliffe at 18%, and Sen. Creigh Deeds at 15%, all in a 3.6% MoE. The interesting bits are that McAuliffe maintains a huge level of unfavorable ratings (29% to Moran’s 15% [...]
Sen. Deeds’ position in the race.
Bob Lewis wrote about Sen. Creigh Deeds’ position in the governor’s race on Saturday, and for folks who support Creigh’s candidacy, there are a couple of points to like. (Sure, it’s confirmation bias, but that’s political blogging for you.) He kept his name in the news during the legislative session much more effectively than his [...]
Candy Review: Hershey’s Thingamajig, Wildly Cherry M&Ms.
I spent the last week on vacation in Chicago, and one of my goals for the visit was to find some regional candy bars. Despite stopping in a dozen or so corner stores to study their candy racks, I wasn’t able to find anything more interesting than a Chick-O-Stick (which I like, but that’s a [...]
Feds can’t ID the source or destination of our food.
The Department of Health and Human Services has found that most food manufacturers and distributors have no idea where their ingredients came from, or where their products go:
Investigators successfully traced the source for only 5 of the 40 products, the report stated. Three of the traced products were egg cartons whose supply chain included only [...]
Contemporary account of 1999 loosening of banking restrictions.
This November 1999 New York Times article on financial services deregulation is awesome:
Congress approved landmark legislation today that opens the door for a new era on Wall Street in which commercial banks, securities houses and insurers will find it easier and cheaper to enter one another’s businesses.
[...]
The decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 [...]
The White House is planning a victory garden.
Michelle Obama will plant a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. With eleven hundred square feet of organic garden, there will be lots of room for the planned lettuce, sugar snap peas, spinach, broccoli, spinach, onions, chard, kale, collards, fennel, rhubarb, carrots, and an assortment of spices. It’ll be fertilized with compost from the [...]
A return to Waldo.Net?
I’m thinking about returning to my old domain, waldo.net. I only switched to waldo.jaquith.org recently, in 2004, to force people to learn to spell my last name. Only rarely now do people insert a “c” in there, so I figure mission accomplished.
Which do you prefer? Or does it even matter in the days of RSS [...]
I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
“And when gasoline got too expensive, we took out the windshield and the engine and hitched the car to a horse! We called it a ‘Hoover Wagon.’” An Abe Simpson quote?* Nope—that’s what some folks did during the Great Depression. Reading a 1935 issue of VQR today, I noticed the event was then referred to [...]
How does a Republican win in Fairfax? Don’t be a dick.
I’ve heard Republicans crowing about winning some board of supervisors seat upstate somewhere. That’s not something I can possibly muster up interest in, but I had to laugh when a read a bit about the winner, John Cook, this evening:
Cook is among those in the Virginia GOP who blame the party’s slide in recent years [...]
Gubernatorial candidates “working” for law firms.
I’ve been researching a blog entry for a few weeks, but I see that Anita Kumar went and did me one better, turning out an article on the topic in today’s Washington Post. What’s up with candidates for governor “working” for law firms? Both Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds work for law firms, although it’s [...]
Deeds has opened his HQ in Charlottesville.
It’s symbolic that Sen. Creigh Deeds has opened his campaign headquarters in Charlottesville. While Terry McAuliffe has his HQ in McLean (the city census-designated place whose name I can never manage to pronounce) and Brian Moran has set up in Alexandria, Creigh has chosen to locate his campaign headquarters considerably farther south. Each campaign had [...]
Goode is positioning himself for a rematch.
I’ve been chewing over the news of Virgil Goode’s (potential) candidacy against Rep. Tom Perriello for the past 36 hours. Goode has filed to run, although he told The Hill: “I’m filing that because a few people have sent me donations.” (Translation: “I’m thinking about running, and I’ve raised some money to that end.”) I [...]
“Put On Your Water Wings, the GOP Tide is Coming!”
The RT-D, whose editorial page is a long-standing friend of Republicans, calls out Jeff Frederick today:
Jeff Frederick seems eminently qualified to serve as chairman of the Republican Club at Sean Hannity Middle School. The delegate from Prince William serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia instead. There’s the rub.
It goes on. And it [...]
A thinker.
Who will get the axe first: Jeff Frederick or Michael Steele?
Do Senate Republicans help or hurt Frederick?
I have to wonder whether the Senate Republican Caucus leaders calling for the defeat of Jeff Frederick helps or hurts him. The sort of people inclined to support Frederick as RPV chairman are the folks far enough to the right that they think Senate Republicans are just Democrats. My guess is that it’s going to [...]
Del. Clarke Hogan is retiring to spend more time with his business.
What to make of Del. Clarke Hogan’s decision not to run for reelection? The South Boston Republican is only in his fourth term, he’s ascended in power quickly, he’s young, and his voting record is loyally Republican. He serves on both the Rules and Appropriations committees, which are good assignments. There’s been talk—and maybe it’s [...]
Mt. Rushmore in a half-million years.
A fauxto of Mount Rushmore as it will appear in 502,000 C.E. (Via The Long Now)
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
With all of the talk of big numbers in the budget and the bailout, it can be tough to maintain a sense of scale. Though the difference between a thousand and a million is very clear to me, the difference between a billion and a trillion is tough to grasp. Here’s an illustration of the [...]
Random guy no longer running for LG.
Rich Savage, the random guy who was running for LG, is no longer running for LG, Vivian Paige writes.
Can’t we just move to a unified governor/LG ticket, and stop this business of electing them separately? The LG spends 45-60 days presiding over the senate, and the rest of the year consists of campaigning for governor [...]
Buckingham’s Willis Mountain.
While driving through Buckingham County yesterday, up and down the hills of the Piedmont, I was surprised to see a prominence to the south of Dillwyn. The size of a small mountain, it’s oddly-shaped, in a way I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It turns out to be an interesting spot. Willis Mountain is [...]
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