Dem leader pushes McDonnell on interest in WH run
Virginia Democrats are seizing upon an apparent attempt at hedging by Gov. Bob McDonnell in an interview with The Washington Post about whatever interest he might have in running for president in 2012.
“Either he intends to serve his full term as Governor or he doesn’t,” Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Dick Cranwell said, citing a blog post from Post writer Jennifer Rubin, who wrote today that she asked McDonnell, a Republican, if he would make a promise not to run for president.
“He didn’t bite. He merely said that he has ‘many new initiatives’ he wants to see through and that ‘there are any number of good candidates, including some former and current’ governors, he would look forward to supporting. Yes, he sure left some wiggle room there,” Rubin wrote.
“If he is so interested in being governor of Virginia until his term ends in 2014, it shouldn’t be difficult for him to come out and say he is not, and will not be a candidate for higher office before then. If he can’t make a firm declaration about his own future, how can the people of Virginia count on him to make the tough decisions about theirs?” Cranwell said.
Story by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
Local student voted runner-up in Post photo contest
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A Stuart Hall student was voted one of two runners-up in a recent Washington Post high-school photo contest. Continue reading “Local student voted runner-up in Post photo contest” »
Local student is finalist in Post photo contest
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A local student is among 10 finalists in a Washington Post high-school photo contest.
Anwyn Cook’s photo “Reflection in Creek” is among the finalists for the contest open to students in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Continue reading “Local student is finalist in Post photo contest” »
InDepth | First draft of history: How Bob won, how Creigh lost
This just in to the AFP newsroom – Bob McDonnell can now be projected the winner in the 2009 Virginia governor’s race.
OK, most people still have yet to vote, but the writing is on the wall, clearly, with the Republican leading Democrat Creigh Deeds by at least 10 points in the pre-election polls.
The polls tell more about where Virginia is politically right now than that we’re about to elect a Republican to lead state government for the first time in 12 years. Foremost, they tell us that we’re about to make this move even while President Barack Obama and Gov. Tim Kaine, both Democrats, maintain approval ratings among Virginians over 50 percent, with Kaine near 60 percent in some polls. Continue reading “InDepth | First draft of history: How Bob won, how Creigh lost” »
Shannon releases TV, radio ads highlighting Cuccinelli ‘bigotry’
Steve Shannon’s campaign for attorney general released new TV and radio ads today. The two ads highlight today’s Washington Post editorial, titled “Mr. Cuccinelli’s Bigotry,” which says Ken Cuccinelli’s election would be “an embarrassment for the commonwealth”.
In its editorial this morning, the Post blasted what it called Cuccinelli’s “bigotry,” adding that , “If he is elected attorney general, Mr. Cuccinelli would drive away qualified lawyers from an office that functions as the state government’s law firm, and, given his bizarre ideas, he would very likely become an embarrassment for the commonwealth.” Continue reading “Shannon releases TV, radio ads highlighting Cuccinelli ‘bigotry’” »
WaPo: McDonnell has commanding lead
A new Washington Post poll out Monday night has Republican Bob McDonnell with a commanding 11-point lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds with a week and a day to go to the Nov. 3 election.
The Post poll of likely voters has McDonnell at 55 percent and Deeds at 44 percent. The lead has grown two points from an Oct. 7 poll that had McDonnell up 53 percent to 44 percent.
The closest the race has been in the Post rendering was a Sept. 17 poll that had the gap at four points at 51 percent for McDonnell and 47 percent for Deeds. Continue reading “WaPo: McDonnell has commanding lead” »
Daily Rant | Deeds Downer
The Creigh Deeds campaign dismissed as “irresponsible” reporting in the AFP earlier this month that it was being criticized by senior Democrats in Virginia and D.C. for the way it was bungling its effort in the Virginia governor’s race. So now that the Washington Post has jumped on the bandwagon to say the same thing, well, AFP editor Chris Graham has a message for the Deeds team in today’s Daily Rant. AFP Video. Length: 3:14. Continue reading “Daily Rant | Deeds Downer” »
Deeds TV ad touts Post endorsement
Today the Deeds campaign released a new ad highlighting the Washington Post’s strong endorsement of Creigh Deeds for governor.
The ad, “Longtime Champion,” highlights the Post’s selection of Deeds as “the better choice for governor,” calling Deeds “a longtime champion” of “enlightened, bipartisan” accomplishments. Continue reading “Deeds TV ad touts Post endorsement” »
Chris Graham | Winners and Losers: Deeds, Al Groh, Balloon boy, The weather
PUSH: Creigh Deeds gets WaPo endorsement
It could be the push that Deeds needed to get over the hump in the Virginia governor’s race. Deeds had crept to within two points of Republican Bob McDonnell in a September Rasmussen poll before falling behind by nine in Rasmussen and the Washington Post and 14 points in a SurveyUSA poll in early October.
The latest poll, from Rasmussen, had the margin back at seven for McDonnell, who you might remember also had a healthy lead in the final days of his 2005 attorney-general race with Deeds before a late surge by the Democrat pushed the election into a recount.
Deeds, you might also remember, was down and out in his ’09 Democratic primary race with Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran before storming back on the strength of a Washington Post endorsement to win the primary going away.
How much influence does a Post endorsement carry? How many comebacks does Deeds have in his political life? Continue reading “Chris Graham | Winners and Losers: Deeds, Al Groh, Balloon boy, The weather” »
Deeds gets endorsement of Washington Post
A Washington Post endorsement reversed Creigh Deeds’ fortunes in the ’09 Democratic Party primary. Can Deeds get another boost from another Post endorsement?
“If the current campaign for governor has clarified anything, it is that state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee, has the good sense and political courage to maintain the forward-looking policies of the past while addressing the looming challenge of fixing the state’s dangerously inadequate roads,” the Post offers in its Sunday editorial endorsement, which was released on the Post website Saturday night.
McDonnell, who has been running his NoVa campaign as “Fairfax’s own,” was clearly not even close to getting the endorsement from the Post. “The Republican candidate, former attorney general Robert F. McDonnell, offers something different: a blizzard of bogus, unworkable, chimerical proposals, repackaged as new ideas, that crumble on contact with reality. They would do little if anything to build a better transportation system,” the paper opined. Continue reading “Deeds gets endorsement of Washington Post” »
The Pulse | Negative enough for ya?
Is the nine-point Bob McDonnell lead in Thursday’s Washington Post poll insurmountable? Yes and no.
And the yes and no both hinge on one factor. Looking at the poll internals, one thing jumps out at me. More than half the voters surveyed, 56 percent, feel that Creigh Deeds is running a negative campaign. (As I reported last week, a number of state and national Democratic Party leaders feel the same way. But that was “irresponsible” of me to put out there for public consumption.) Continue reading “The Pulse | Negative enough for ya?” »
Chris Saxman: Cold Fusion – Ghostbusters Edition
Posted by afp on May 9, 2011 · 3 Comments
Who you gonna call?
United States Navy SEAL Team Six!
That’s who!
I emailed a good friend of mine whose brother was one of the victims of the World Trade Center attack and asked how his family was doing after learning Usama bin Swimming with the Fishes. His reply was heart warming.
“Hi Sax, Thanks so much. I love they shot him in the face. Long wait but totally worth it.”
That pretty much sums up the country’s feelings on this. Gratitude. Love the Happy Ending for Usama. Worth the wait.
Really, we are good with that. Just knowing that the Bin Wondering If I am Losing Hair died at the hands of a United States soldier double tapping that melon was good enough for me. Sure many have waxed on about the appropriateness of how UBL should get his, but the guy seemed to have vanished without a trace like a ghost. To the point at which he was out of our thoughts. Prior to the Twitter feeds at 10:30 EST on last Sunday night, when was the last time you had a conscious thought about Bin Laden?
While the President enjoys a RealClearPolitics average bounce in the polls of 4.6%, here at Cold Fusion Headquarters we hope the White House will use this time and appropriate wind at their backs to get their story straight.
I am granting myself a leave of absence on criticizing the President for the next two weeks. He’s earned the vacation and I hope he takes one. Apparently, hitting the golf course didn’t hinder the SEAL Team Six.
Maybe BHO can call SEAL Team Six into the Debt Reduction Neighborhood. That will liven things up. Who knows, it might even keep Joe Biden awake during the talks. NOTE TO READER – Joe Biden is the Vice President of these United States.
There has been a lot of talk on whether or not the photos of Bin Laden, post SEAL Team Six double tap, should be released to public. The primary reason given for not releasing them is that it might incite radical Islamic terrorists to join the global Jihad against the United States.
Yeah. They might change course and start hating The Great Satan. They might even strap bombs to mentally retarded children and have them go into crowded markets while some coward martyr’s him from a safe distance. They might start raping and torturing women and children.
If we can handle the pictures of Abu Ghraib, we can handle seeing these pics. They might be graphic and intended for mature audiences, but since my 8 year old son knows what a UAV (drone) is and what it can do (via Call of Duty 23 video game) and since every prime time show is dedicated to either solving some heinous crime or saving some shot up guy in some emergency room, I think we can handle Usama Bin Without Hat.
Sorry, JAWS broke the shock factor for us back in the 70s or maybe it was Charles Manson or The Exorcist or when Mike and Carol Brady shared a bed in prime time.
Enter Col. Nathan Jessup – “You Can’t Handle the Truth!”
John Q Public – “YES WE CAN!” Para espanol, numero dos – “Si Se puede.”
So, get your story straight. Have some more photo ops. Spike your football. Then let us spike ours. Show us what happened. And show the rest of the world what happens when you make enemies with the United States of America. We hunt you down and kill you. No Miranda Rights being read. Just your friends at Gitmo dimeing you out.
COLD FUSION UPDATE – We have taken to airwaves via ESPN 1240 WTON, the Boss. Every Friday morning from 7am to 8am, I am hosting a sports/politics talk show with Bill Piner here in Staunton. Our inaugural broadcast was this past Friday and our guests were Gov. George Allen and Lee High three-sport star Terrell Mickens. Terrell recently signed to play football at James Madison University and Gov. Allen is running for the US Senate.
We should be live streaming later this week. Tune in if you can and support our local sponsors – MasterTech Automotive, Community Bank and Applebee’s.
Back to our regular Cold Fusion.
Gov. Allen and Gov. Kaine are tied at 46 in a recent Washington Post poll of 1,040 Registered Voters. I think if the sample was Likely Voters, Allen would be up 3-5 points. But it’s early. This election could swing control of the US Senate, stay tuned.
Speaking of elections, if you haven’t heard Barack Obama was re-elected by the mainstream media and our good friends Joy Behar and Babwa Wawa. Apparently, there is a little known codicil in the Faber College Constitution that says if you give the orders to kill a terrorist hiding out in Pakistan and that terrorist is buried at sea the same day, you win re-election up to 18 months prior to the polls opening.
This is why George W Bush did not actually kill Usama Bin Dying From A Splitting Headache himself. He was not up for re-election so that would not have applied to him.
AH.
Unaware of the electoral returns, those pesky Republicans went ahead with a televised debate from South Carolina on Fox News last week. And the winner was……
Herman Cain. Knocked it out of the park. He is now in my top three with Mitch Daniels and Romney.
And the loser was….Mitt Romney. He should have been there.
There is a total misread by too many candidates and their consultants right now. The opposition needs a leader and the followers will follow the one who leads.
Quick analysis of the those currently in the race or are thinking about it.
Romney – Competent. Conservative enough. Might be too Corporate. Can’t pass up debates in leading primary states like South Carolina. You have to want this job more than breathing.
Huckabee – will get in too late. Could still win Iowa but Santorum is filling that void among social conservatives.
Santorum – needs more than social conservatives to win in Nov. 2012 but can’t get there without them. Has moved into second tier.
Ron Paul – right on a lot of issues. Sets a lot of the national agenda. Seems young for 76. Always has trouble attracting more people than he does. Needs to go a little mainstream to win. More issues = more voters. It’s called math.
Gary Johnson. Secretary of the Interior.
Tim Pawlenty (played by Dana Carvey) Secretary of Agriculture in 2013. Top Tier candidate now because Top Tier is not leading. He wants to be POTUS.
Palin. Pulling 15MM a year now. Won’t run. And shouldn’t.
Bachmann. Lecture circuit bound. Probably 15-20k a pop. Oh and book sales.
Gingrich – Train is leaving the station. Almost too late. Most articulate voice on the right.
Gov. Mitch Daniels – Could be the surprise of the summer or the implosion of the summer. Needs to get going. I’m getting a Mario Cuomo feeling on his candidacy – the plane is fired up but he needs to get on it.
Eight months to go and some of the so called leaders of the opposition don’t post for a debate in South Carolina and others still haven’t even made it known if they are running.
Lee Iacocca famously said “Lead, follow or Get out of the way.”
It’s time. Lead, Follow or Get out of the way. Herman Cain is leading and winning votes.
Something’s strange in the neighborhood, who are you going to call?
SEAL TEAM SIX!!
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