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Two developments in the Democratic Party gubernatorial race in the last couple of days have the race going in a couple of different directions. A Research 2000/Daily Kos poll released on Thursday has Terry McAuliffe gaining significant ground on Brian Moran and Creigh Deeds since the last R2000/Kos poll in early April. And then today…
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Another poll has Terry McAuliffe opening up a double-digit lead in the race for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination. This time it’s Public Policy Polling, which on March 31 had former Northern Virginian state lawmaker Brian Moran two points ahead of McAuliffe among likely Democratic Party primary voters.
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You don’t have to win the national championship every week, football coach Lou Holtz says. You only have to be the best team in the stadium on Saturday. Terry McAuliffe is clinging to that right now. The same SurveyUSA poll that Creigh Deeds’ campaign manager is citing as evidence that the Bath County state senator…
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Brian Moran has moved into the lead in the governor’s race, and Jody Wagner seems to be running away in the battle for the Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination, in a new Public Policy Polling survey out Tuesday. Moran had been trailing Terry McAuliffe by a 21 percent-to-19 percent margin in the February PPP poll, but…
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You won’t have to deal with secondhand smoke in Virginia bars and restaurants effective Dec. 1. Gov. Tim Kaine made it offiicial Monday with a ceremony at a bar on the strip in Virginia Beach signing into law legislation banning smoking in Virginia establishments outside of a narrow exception permitting smoking in private clubs and…
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Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Creigh Deeds will be in Staunton on Friday to meet with voters. Deeds will be at Blue Mountain Coffee at 12 Byers Street in Downtown Staunton.
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Terry McAuliffe has a slight lead in a new poll measuring support in the race for the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, but Brian Moran is within the statistical margin of error, and Creigh Deeds is not that far behind. The poll conducted by Public Policy Polling over the weekend has McAuliffe, a former Democratic…
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I reached out my hand to Arlie Wolfe. “How does it feel to be a millionaire?” I asked the Middlebrook man, who, for the record, isn’t really a millionaire, no matter what the piece of paper his wife, Joan, had in her purse had to say about the matter. Arlie and Joan had bought their…
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A new poll has Republican Bob McDonnell leading all three of his potential Democratic Party rivals for governor this week. McDonnell leads former Northern Virginia state legislator Brian Moran by a 39 percent-to-36 percent margin in a poll released Thursday evening by Rasmussen Reports. The attorney general had trailed Moran in a December Rasmussen poll…
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Bob McDonnell is resigning as attorney general of Virginia effective Feb. 20 to devote his attention full-time to his pursuit of the governorship.
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