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Story by Chris Graham The mood was triumphant, almost giddy. Republicans in the 24th Senate District seem almost hopelessly divided – and local Democrats think they smell blood in the water. “We have this unprecedented opportunity to get somebody in this seat who can make a difference in Richmond, who can help Gov. Kaine, who…
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Story by Chris Graham Taxes and spending have been a central issue for 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination candidates Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre. The New Dominion asked the candidates in interviews for our Internet radio podcast about a divide that seems to be in place between the two on their positions on fiscal…
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Story by Chris Graham Two prominent local Democrats have already endorsed the Republican incumbent – but Will Hrovat isn’t worried about stepping to the plate with the count showing him in the hole oh-and-two.
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Column by Chris Graham The question that I get asked most often these days – by locals, by politicos, by professors from outside the Valley – has to do with the Emmett Hanger-Scott Sayre Republican primary race in the 24th Senate District. “Who do you think is going to win?” You could have guessed that…
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Story by Chris Graham Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre were in the same room – briefly. The candidates for the 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination passed like ships in the night at their joint appearance at a Staunton Republican Committee meeting Tuesday – with Hanger, the three-term incumbent state senator under fire from local…
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Column by Chris Graham Scott Sayre will need to get the backing of grassroots conservatives for his bid to unseat 24th District state senator Emmett Hanger to be successful. He picked up the endorsement of the cash- and member-rich Virginia Conservative Action PAC today – leading to the obvious question. Should Sen. Hanger be worried?
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Column by Chris Graham I’ve been taking in the speculation about Mark Warner’s next political step – and the notion that Democrats are courting him to run for the United States Senate in 2008. My take on this is that we’re being a little premature in analyzing that one – given what I think is…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Let’s give Ann Coulter the benefit of the doubt. Why should we hold her to any standard – you know? So she called John Edwards a “faggot.” (And people at the CPAC conference who were on hand for the occasion laughed hysterically.) Big deal, right?
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The Top Story by Chris Graham For a brief moment or two after the 2006 midterm elections, it had seemed that the Republican Party was perhaps going off its ideological moorings. The talk was reaching the level of near-clamor regarding how the GOP was going to have to consider retreating from the right-wing conservative…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It hasn’t been that long since some in the punditry and the blogosphere were speculating aloud about how Republican victories in the race for the White House and in Congress in 2004 might be signaling the dawn of a GOP century. And it seems that now, instead of…
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