
Politics Notebook: On the campaign trail
Tim Kaine talks Senate budget votes, and we look at the latest polling in New Hampshire and North Carolina

Tim Kaine talks Senate budget votes, and we look at the latest polling in New Hampshire and North Carolina

Kevin Nash was supposed to tear up Augusta Expo. That he didn’t is still a mystery to me

The short answer: I don’t know any more than anybody else. Not that this stops me from having some strong thoughts on the subject

-An epic US Senate contest in 2014 between Mark Warner and Bob McDonnell…might not be that epic. Warner leads McDonnell 51-40 in a hypothetical head to head. Warner would take 14% of the Republican vote while McDonnell gets just 7% of Democrats, and Warner has a narrow edge with independents as well. McDonnell is popular…

The Waynesboro Democratic Committee will be co hosting its first meeting at the Ridgeview Park River Shelter on Monday, May 7 from 6-8 p.m. The event will be cosponsored by the Obama For America campaign. The WDC will provide free hamburgers and hot dogs. Visitors are asked to bring a side dish.

There has been talk about the possible interest of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner in running for a second term as governor of Virginia in 2013. A new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters puts Warner as a heavy favorite in ’13 if he were to make that call. Warner outpolls Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli…

Yesterday the news from Public Policy Polling was that Barack Obama had an eight-point lead statewide in his race for re-election. Today the news is that former Obama vice-president short-lister Tim Kaine is in a dead heat in another PPP survey of Virginians on their preferences for the U.S. Senate.

We have, unfortunately, experience with losing elections – we being progressives in Waynesboro, loosely defined. And I say loosely defined because the word progressive means something very different in Waynesboro than it does just about everywhere else in the country

Crowds of volunteers gathered across the entire Commonwealth Saturday to register new voters, just a week before President Obama comes to Richmond for his first day of campaign rallies. Volunteers were joined by Senator Mark Warner in Arlington, former Congressman Tom Perriello in Charlottesville, and Obama Campaign Deputy Operation Vote Director Michael Blake in Falls…

On the 18th day of April, about six weeks after the procedural resolution called for the passage of a budget, Virginia’s General Assembly, together for a Veto Session, finally passed a budget. There is much in the budget to like, some items not to like, and signs for the future that are very worrisome.
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