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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe’s name first surfaced as a possible ’09 Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate at the Democratic National Convention. A Draft Terry website popped up last week, before McAuliffe addressed, at his request, a meeting of the Democratic Party of Virginia’s State Central Committee. And now…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] John McCain said of Hillary Clinton’s health-care proposal last year: “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” McCain made a similar-sounding remark about former GOP presidential Mitt Romney during the New Hampshire primary: “Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Sarah Palin represents everything they hate,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham told an audience at the Republican National Convention this week. Which piqued my interest, because I’m guessing that I’m one of those they that she was referring to – a Democrat, a member of the news media. Come…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Hillary Clinton voters once uncertain about Barack Obama’s readiness to be president are now moving solidly into the Obama camp, pushing Obama above 50 percent in two national polls. Obama stood at 51 percent in today’s daily tracking poll from Rasmussen Reports and at 50 percent in the daily tracking…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Terry McAuliffe for governor, huh? In Virginia? Really? “I was a kid who grew up in Syracuse,” said McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chair and key advisor to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, after speaking to the Virginia delegation at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. “I started…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So where does John McCain stand, exactly, on Roe v. Wade? “Going back to 1999, John McCain did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle saying that overturning Roe v. Wade would not make any sense, because then women would have to have illegal abortions,” said Debra Bartoshevich, whom you…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Joe Biden isn’t the breakaway dunk that Hillary Clinton or Mark Warner would have been for Barack Obama, but to continue with the basketball analogy, he’s the back-to-the-basket post player who can rebound and play defense that every team needs to be able to win a championship, or in…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve said this before, but I think it bears repeating as we approach the Barack Obama VP Zero Hour. Virginia is certainly flattered to have been a player in the Obama Veepstakes, but we’re not going to appreciate feeling jerked around when Obama doesn’t seal the deal with one of…
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Moderated by Chris Graham [email protected] Who will it be? Tim Kaine? Mark Warner? Has Jim Webb snuck his way back into the race? How about Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or Evan Bayh? And that’s just on the Democratic Party side. My bet on the GOP side is Mitt Romney. Others say Tim Pawlenty. Or…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I call it The Wilder Effect. Doug Wilder was up nine points in the pre-election polls in his 1989 gubernatorial race with Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation’s first elected African-American governor, but in the poll that counted on Election Day he won by less than half…
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