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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The press release billed the event as being the launch of something to be called Virginians for Warner, and let us know that former Republican state senator John Chichester was going to be tagging along with his friend from across the aisle. It didn’t say anything about the gaggle of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Republicans have been whispering that the Senate race between Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner has been tightening up, but a new poll from Public Policy Polling has it right where it has been for months. Warner had a 57 percent-to-33 percent lead in the latest PPP poll released this morning….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore characterized his first TV ad of the 2008 campaign season as “Principled.” The response from the Mark Warner campaign highlights the “Preposterous” charges lobbed at Warner in the ad. The 30-second ad will begin airing tonight in the same TV markets where the Gilmore ad that takes a…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore standing at the podium in Glen Maury Park in Buena Vista at the foot of the Blue Ridge pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. A burly, hirsute man wearing a form-fitting Gilmore T-shirt handed the news reporter standing next to me a similarly-sized paper…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] TELL US MORE ABOUT YOU, JIMMY: More trash from Gilmore Got another note from the Jim Gilmore campaign with more trash on how Mark Warner is a bad guy. Today it’s something he said to the Virginia AFL-CIO about his support of legislation that would put Virginia’s right-to-work status in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t try to tell Mark Warner what to say. And by all means, don’t expect him to be all that cheery when you send a car for him at 5 in the morning. “One more career I probably have to cross off my list is early-morning TV or radio-show host….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A basketball injury has Mark Warner on the shelf – forcing the former governor to cancel a slew of scheduled U.S. Senate campaign appearances today in the Shenandoah Valley. The injury, which dates back two weeks, should not interfere with his planned Aug. 26 keynote address at the Democratic National…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner will be on hand for a pair of events in Downtown Waynesboro on Saturday. Warner will be the featured speaker at the opening of the Waynesboro Democratic Committee 2008 campaign headquarters in Willow Oak Plaza at 801 W. Broad St. at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama has a healthy six-point lead in the latest Gallup daily tracking poll, and a Survey USA poll has the race between Obama and John McCain in Virginia all square. Meanwhile, Mark Warner continues to enjoy a huge lead over Jim Gilmore in the battle of ex-governors running for…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The battle of two ex-governors is still looking like a Mark Warner landslide. A Rasmussen Reports poll released today has the Democrat Warner ahead of Republican Jim Gilmore by a commanding 57 percent-to-34 percent margin. The poll was conducted on Wednesday of 500 Virginia voters.
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