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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 …
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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% …
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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Johnny Camacho recaps Bob Gibson’s hour-long interview with the Democratic gubernatorial candidates on WVTF, the NPR carrier for the western half of the state. Or, rather, Creigh Deeds, the only guy who showed up. Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran phoned it in, calling in during the latter minutes of the show. McAuliffe’s comment about drinking …
I cannot understand why it’s news when somebody announces they’re thinking about running for office and when they’re going to announce whether or not they’ll run for office and then when they announce. It’s just goofy. Anyhow, Terry McAuliffe has made it official that he’s running for governor, not that there was any question about …
Tim Craig and I are on the same page in the matter of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor: In a two-way race against McAuliffe or Deeds, Moran very well might have been unstoppable. […] But then McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, burst onto the Virginia political scene in …
I’ve been chewing over Del. Brian Moran’s resignation of his seat today, wondering a) why, b) why now, and c) what effect that it will have on the race. I think the simplest explanation is probably the right one. The “why now” is at the center of it, I think. In a statement, Moran told …
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