Riding the wave: Pressure is on Republicans, not Obama
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The pundits have declared President Obama a lame duck in light of the wave that swept Republicans into power in the U.S. Senate this week.
Search Results for Democrats
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Crunching the numbers: Should Ed Gillespie have been favorite all along?
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Give credit to the Ed Gillespie team for one thing: getting its voters energized and then to the polls. The comparisons to 2008 and 2012 show that victory was more possible than it even seems today knowing what we know now.
A Republican wave? A big Dem poll skew? What the hell happened?
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Conventional wisdom had Republicans big favorites to win a Senate majority, build on its strong House majority and pick up several governorships.
Winners and Losers Special Edition: Toocloseforcomfort U.S. Senate race
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WINNER: Ed Gillespie OK, he lost, sure. But we expected him to lose. Just not by 18,000 votes. (Maybe 18 points, but not 18,000 votes.) Now Gillespie is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2017.
How Election Night will go in Virginia: Can Ed Gillespie shock the world?
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If you watch the election returns tonight like you watch a football game, the first quarter of the Mark Warner-Ed Gillespie game might surprise you, when you see Gillespie get on the board with an early touchdown.
Pundits split on midterms: Winds blowing toward Republicans?
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University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato is forecasting a Republican wave in the 2014 midterm elections on Tuesday.
Ken Plum: Your civic duty
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A basic tenet of all levels of civic education is that citizens should vote. We are told of the importance of voting in social studies classes, Scouting, and in community groups.
David Swanson: 57 candidates and nothing on
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I was lucky to attend a debate among the candidates for Congress from Virginia’s Fifth District just before Game 7 of the World Series. This was the kind of event you can write about while drinking beer and yelling at a television with your family. In fact, I’m not sure there’s any other way you could write about it.
Compromise: A dirty word with the modern Republican Party
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Never has “compromise” been treated as such a dirty word as by today’s Republican Party. Never has a party been less interested in working together to do the people’s business.
Libertarian Senate candidate Robert Sarvis on Millennials support
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Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Robert Sarvis released the following statement in response to a Christopher Newport University poll finding that he has more than twice the support of Republican Ed Gillespie among Virginians between the ages of 18 and 35.
