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Ohio Gov. John Kasich was among the last candidates to declare for the Republican Party presidential nomination, and he was the final candidate added to the 10-candidate field for the first GOP debate.
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham leads our live coverage of the first Republican Party presidential debate. Follow along in the comments section for the play-by-play from the debate, and feel free to join in with your observations, questions and more.
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Virginia has gone Democratic in the past two presidential elections. It’s looking right now like Virginia Democrats are overwhelmingly going Hillary Clinton.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has a small lead among Virginia GOP voters in the crowded field of Republican Party presidential contenders.
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Hillary Clinton is far ahead of the pack in a recent poll of Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters, with 59 percent of those voters saying they would vote for the former secretary of state in the 2016 presidential primaries and caucuses, according to a national poll from Suffolk University/USA TODAY.
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The latest polling from Public Policy Polling shows a continued jumble at the top of the Republican Party ticket.
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The Survivor Series in November was a crowning moment for WWE: marking the on-screen WWE debut of Sting, and the storyline demise of The Authority, the faction led by real-life WWE executives Stephanie McMahon and Triple H whose act was, yes, getting a bit stale more than a year into its run.
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It was Mitt Romney. Then Donald Trump. Then Michele Bachmann. Next up was Rick Perry. Now it’s Herman Cain’s turn to set the pace for the GOP presidential field. Cain holds leads across the country in polls conducted by Public Policy Polling – in eight states of the nine that PPP has surveyed in the…
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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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