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 people …

Frederick, speaking for McCain’s volunteer base.

Time Magazine’s Karen Tumulty was dispatched to cover John McCain’s ground game in Virginia, and she ended up visiting the campaign’s Gainsville office with Del. Jeff Frederick. Tumulty describes in Time magazine the scene that she witnessed: With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of …

Dems running in every Virginia CD.

Here’s something I hadn’t realized: Democrats are fielding a candidate in all eleven Virginia congressional districts. That’s great. I wish it would become the norm, established by the RPV and the DPVA, that the local party chairs put their name on the ballot as the nominal opponent of otherwise unchallenged incumbents, for state and federal …