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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall All deference to Mario Cuomo and all the other Democratic wags who thought, or still think, an Obama/Clinton ticket is a “Dream Team” – but, what the hell is wrong with you people? You can’t seriously think it’s a good idea. Here we are, on the verge of getting…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Augusta County Democrats elected 11 delegates to represent the local party at the Democratic Party State Convention on June 14. Six are pledged to support Barack Obama at the convention – Tamara Kincaid, Elizabeth La Grua, Tom Long, Riley Murray, Starke Smith and Sherry Stanley. Five are committed to Hillary…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Augusta County Democratic Committee will caucus on April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona to select delegates to the Sixth District Democratic Convention and the State Democratic Convention. Participants must be registered voters in Augusta County and sign a declaration that they are…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Look at the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial race one way, and it looks an awful lot like the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. You’ve got two candidates in both who are perceived as being basically dead-even right now who you have to assume will fight to the death for the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Funny how Hillary Clinton has turned the momentum of her campaign around with a TV commercial asking America who they would rather have in the White House taking a 3 a.m. phone call. You know, considering the 3 a.m. phone calls that used to come into the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A big deal was made about Hillary Clinton crying the day before the New Hampshire primary that she had appeared at the time destined to lose to Barack Obama. Former vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro thinks it was way, way too much a big deal. “I have to tell you how…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I caught myself saying it out loud the other day. “If you had to pin me down, I’m a Jeffersonian,” I said to a person who had just attended a political forum for which I had served as the moderator. Chris Matthews, I’m not – I’m younger,…
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Column by Chris Graham Does David Cox have what it takes to win in November?
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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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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Did you hear presumed Democratic Party presidential nomination frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s fake Southern drawl the other day during remarks made at a black church in Alabama for a commemoration of the 1965 Selma voting-rights march? I don’t know – it would have been one thing if it had…
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.