Notebook: Mark Warner on 2025 results, shutdown, congressional maps
Mark Warner brought up something today that I hadn’t realized until he said it: that Abigail Spanberger would have won the governor’s race without Northern Virginia.
Mark Warner brought up something today that I hadn’t realized until he said it: that Abigail Spanberger would have won the governor’s race without Northern Virginia.

Thousands of flights may be cancelled if the federal government does not reopen this week, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced.
Thousands of children have lost access to Head Start programs due to a lack of federal funding while the federal government is shut down.
We knew that Abigail Spanberger was going to be the first woman to be elected governor in Virginia; we didn’t know she’d win by 15 points.
Virginia replaced its Republican state ticket with a new Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and flipped 14 Republican House seats to the Democrats’ side.
That first half, in Virginia’s season opener with Rider, that was some fugly basketball – not because of anything the two teams were doing, but because of all the whistles.
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Andrew is now a commoner, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, after his brother, King Charles, moved on Thursday to strip him of his royal titles.
Another poll weighted to the 2021 electorate – why do it that way? – has the Virginia lieutenant governor race running tight as a tick.
For nearly 250 years, despite its many faults, the U.S. has stood as a beacon of democracy and hope around the world.
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