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Here’s the fundraising data from the attorney general’s race, current as of June 30, which was the last reporting date. Republicans Del. Bob McDonnell: $801,871 Steve Baril: $784,690 Democrats Sen. Creigh Deeds: $60,784 Sen. John Edwards: $5,355 What the hell? Have we, as a party, made some sort of a decision to cede this seat? …
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Sen. George Allen ( R) is not a very smart man. Sen. George Allen, all hat and no cattle. The idea of Virginia’s own Howdy Doody being elected to the presidency would be ludicrous, if the White House weren’t already occupied by a man of very similar intellectual capacity. (Note that I’m on the verge …
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Media General’s Bristol Herald Courier endorses Bush. Still not a single Kerry endorsement from any of Media General’s papers. Does Charlottesville’s Daily Progress have the nerve to do the right thing, to endorse the candidate who will surely carry Charlottesville by an overwhelming margin? We’ll find out on Sunday. (Via SW Virginia Law Blog)
I don’t know what’s worse about Virginia Republican Party Chair Kate Obenshain Griffin’s “Two opposing views of America” column — that she might believe the things that she writes, or that she knows full well that she’s lying. President Bush believes that when American lives are at stake, we must act immediately. John Kerry recently …
A year ago this time, Democrat Steve Sisson was running against Republican incumbent Sen. Emmett Hanger in the 24th District of Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. I didn’t think much of Sisson’s campaign at the time — it was nasty, full of distortions, and based on the Bizarro-World premise that Hanger would be willing to …
In yesterday’s Danville Register-Bee, reporter Ann Anderson wrote about a recent Democratic rally held in Danville to promote John Kerry and congressional candidate Al Weed, in a piece entitled “Local Dems rally voters to the polls.” At one point, Anderson wrote: After several forums with his opponent, Congressman Virgil Goode, Weed said the voters should …
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A week ago, I explained why Roanoke Times columnist Ed Lynch’s slap-dash dismissal of Sen. Creigh Deeds was wrong on its face. Today, Lynch has yet another column, nearly as foolish as last week’s. It’s worth going into a few of the weaker points. In “It’s time to elect judges in Virginia,” Lynch argues that …
In today’s Roanoke Times, columnist Ed Lynch (ex-chair of the Roanoke County Republican Party) writes about Sen. Creigh Deeds. Sen. Creigh Deeds Creigh represents a swath of Virginia running from Charlottesville west to Alleghany County, as he has since Sen. Emily Couric died; prior to that, he was a member of the House of Delegates …
Last week, Ali Ahmad, chair of the UVa College Republicans, wrote a wrong-in-so-many-ways column for the UVa newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. I e-mailed him, he replied, I replied, he replied. The exchange went as follows. Ali, In your article in today’s Cavalier Daily, “Swinging to the right,” you provide Al Weed with the nickname “Instant …