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First thing about presidential-race polls more than a year out: They’re worthless, OK? I say that, and there go the thousands of reads that we get on our poll stories, but oh, well. It’s the truth. Who’d have guessed at this time in the 2008 cycle that Barack Obama would have ended up getting the…
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President Barack Obama’s approval rating in Virginia is over 50 percent, and he would take the state in presidential voting if the election were held today, and by a comfortable margin. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee does the best of the expected Republican contenders and still trails Obama by a 52 percent-to-43 percent margin, according…
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The White House today surprised reporters with the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate. The release comes at the height of weeks of public posturing by real-estate mogul Donald Trump hinting that investigators hired by the reality-television star might have information to the effect that Obama wasn’t born in the United States or…
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Good thing I’m not thinking of running for City Council again. I have no idea where my birth certificate is. I know I’ve seen it, can’t remember exactly when, and don’t know where it is. Which leads me to this: For all I know, I was born in Kenya. Seriously. I mean, I’m sure I…
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Column by Chris Graham I’m not buying it for a second, though I guess that makes me the butthead. “When I visited the guy in the glass,” Groh said after reading the last line in the poem “The Man in the Glass” at what turned out to be his final press conference as the head…
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You don’t have to win the national championship every week, football coach Lou Holtz says. You only have to be the best team in the stadium on Saturday. Terry McAuliffe is clinging to that right now. The same SurveyUSA poll that Creigh Deeds’ campaign manager is citing as evidence that the Bath County state senator…
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The Creigh Deeds campaign is reading something. That I think is clear with the slight shift in strategy signaled in the closing statement that Deeds delivered in Sunday’s Democratic Party gubernatorial debate in Williamsburg. “Our party will no longer be the party of the middle class if our nominee for governor is beholden to Donald…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline If the Virginia General Assembly is a 60-day legislative battle, this week was filled with several skirmishes between those of us fighting to reform the state bureaucracy and the bureaucracy fighting back. I generally introduce several government-reform bills each year because I continue to believe that government…
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If Jones, Scott et al in the Virginia Democratic Party leadership really want the 10-1 map that 1,604,276 voters approved last month, there’s this scenario laid out by Quinn Yeargain, a constitutional law professor at Michigan State.
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Ben Cline set up a well-funded entity he called Stop the Gerrymander to save his job in Congress, which pays him a mere $174,000 a year. Consider the money of the oligarchs that went toward the effort well spent.
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