art in the park

Down in defeat: Virginia Dems licking wounds after Election Day bloodletting

Tom Perriello was the underdog yet again, and yet again got caught up in a political wave. The only difference – this one forced him to swim against the current. “I think what really torpedoed his chances here was the D next to his name,” said Isaac Wood, the House race editor at the University [...]


Election Night Live Blog

Join the AFP for live updates on results from the 2010 midterm elections. Editor Chris Graham is monitoring the latest numbers from the polls and will post live updates along with commentary and analysis. 10:58 p.m. That’s a wrap. The race in the 11th will clearly be too close to call tonight. Democrat Gerry Connolly [...]


Pre-post-midterm

Will it be the worst thing for the country if today’s elections give Republicans one or both houses of Congress? Yes and no. You might be surprised at my reasoning on the yes. It’s not a partisan point of view that has me thinking that way. It’s more – can we just make our damned [...]


The AFP on WREL: Oct. 29, 2010

AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to discuss Virginia news and politics. The segment begins with a look ahead to next week’s congressional elections. Will Republicans make the big gains that the analysts have been projecting for months? What will it all mean once the dust settles? The next topic is [...]


Bradley Rees: A time for choosing

“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets. A philosophical battle is a nuclear war.” These words were written by Ayn Rand way back in 1964. This sentiment was, at one time, shared by the Tea Party groups that inhabit central Virginia. They understood that the time for fixing those metaphorical rusty bayonets [...]


Holly Sklar: Wall Street has already voted

Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a “plutonomy.” They said, “There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the ‘non-rich,’ the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites [...]