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You get together with friends for a neighborly supper. Whether fancy or simple, it’s a pleasant evening. Then, while folks are savoring their ham biscuits, two fellow diners get going hot and heavy on some issue or another—politics, religion, or perhaps most controversial of all, local football. One starts yelling at the other, without kidding,…
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Tuesday, Oct. 6 MR. GIBBS: Oh, everybody got quiet – kind of eerie. Q It’s out of respect. (Laughter.) MR. GIBBS: No, I know better than that, Mr. Feller. (Laughter.) I have no announcements, so take us away.
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A narrow plurality of Americans support the passage of a new health-care bill, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Forty percent of those surveyed in the Gallup poll say they support passage of health-care reform, with 36 percent opposed and 24 percent saying they are still undecided on the issue. The Gallup analysis…
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A long-time friend in the local media who covered the Tim Kaine visit to Staunton last week with me for the News Virginian felt, shall we say, slighted at the treatment accorded him by the Kaine traveling party, and called me to get my input on what had transpired. The media folks on hand, including…
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Monday, Oct. 5 MR. GIBBS: Since we didn’t have a chance to do this at the end of last week, let me do a brief week ahead on a couple of scheduling items. I think some of you may know, but tomorrow the President will visit the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, D.C., where he…
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I got myself chewed out by the Creigh Deeds campaign last week as being “irresponsible” for reporting on a story circulating in Democratic circles about apparent conflicts between the Deeds camp and the Democratic National Committee over the direction of the Deeds effort. Looks like I’m not the only “irresponsible” journalist diving into the What…
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Democrats want to see more out of the Creigh Deeds campaign than, well, Creigh Deeds isn’t Bob McDonnell. AFP editor Chris Graham implores the Deeds folks to start delivering. Facebook Video. Length: 2:38.
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A new poll from Rasmussen Reports has Bob McDonnell reopening a healthy lead over Creigh Deeds in the Virginia governor’s race. The Rasmussen poll has McDonnell with a 51 percent-to-42 percent lead over Deeds. Deeds had narrowed the McDonnell lead two weeks ago to a 48 percent-to-46 percent margin.
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Tuesday, Sept. 29 MR. GIBBS: Mr. Elliott, take us away. Q Thanks, Robert. On the principals’ meeting today, what’s the actual goal, what does the President want to come away with in this discussion on Afghanistan? I know we’re not at a point where we’re making decisions. What are we making in this meeting? MR….
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Bob McDonnell’s lead over Creigh Deeds in the Virginia governor’s race in a new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters is at five points, down from a peak of 14 points in the summer and seven points a month ago. The key factors in the McDonnell lead, according to PPP: his 53 percent-to-37 percent…
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