This just in: Brian Moran is seeking the governor’s seat.

Oh, look—Brian Moran announced today that he’s running for governor. And media outlets are carrying the story as news—Charlottesville’s WCAV, D.C.’s WTOP, the Associated Press / Daily Press, and Lynchburg’s WSET are all reporting on this. I don’t mean to pick on Moran here, because lots of candidates do this. They run for office for …

Sen. Deeds was right to skip the Shad Planking.

It looks like Sen. Creigh Deeds did the right thing in skipping the Shad Planking, or so I gather from Anita Kumar’s article in today’s Post. Campaigning at the Shad Planking is like campaigning on blogs—the audience already has their minds made up, so in a tight race, any time or money spent is time …

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 …

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 …

JJ Dinner Capital Correspondents Association videotape.

Missed the JJ Dinner last week Capital Correspondents Association dinner on Wednesday? Not trusting the neutrality of the descriptions thus far? Style Weekly videotaped the speeches so that you can judge for yourself. 02/16 Update: I’m a moron.

McAuliffe: We must reverse this trend of victory.

The quote of the day, from Terry McAuliffe talking to Bob Lewis: Nobody can sit back and do things the way we used to do them in governors’ races. If we do that, we’re not going to win. Yeah! Look at what happened to that Mark Warner character back in 2001! And Tim Kaine, in …

McDonnell resigns, effective Feb. 20th.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell just wrapped up a press conference in which he announced that he’s resigning to run for governor full-time. His campaign manager described it as “the most difficult decision Bob has ever had to make,” but that strikes me as enormously unlikely. McDonnell is the fourth consecutive Republican AG in Virginia to …