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Terry McAuliffe for governor. Of Virginia. Seriously. And he knows what he’s talking about. “What I’ve been doing is I’ve been going out and asking questions. Here are my ideas for where I’d like to see the Commonwealth go. What do you think? What are your ideas? Because as I’ve said from day one, I…
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Hey! Rub-a-dub-dub! Ho! Rub-a-dub-dub! Three men in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, And all of them gone to the Democratic fair! The Virginia gubernatorial race is on! It’s probably the best field of Democratic candidates running for governor in the history of the party….
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“It was really about the best night of my life,” Tim Kaine said of Election Night, which not only saw his long-time friend Mark Warner capture a landslide of landslides win over Jim Gilmore in their U.S. Senate race but also saw another friend, Barack Obama, win Virginia on his way to a historic triumph…
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Before last Tuesday’s election fades totally into memory — not that it will — I’ll share a few observations of various sorts in no particular order … At least in Lexington, the process of voting went swimmingly. Registrar of Voters Carol Rendleman and the Electoral Board obviously took great pains to make sure it would….
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There was no way, I told people, often, that Sam Rasoul doesn’t get at least 40 percent in his Sixth District race with Bob Goodlatte. The kid plain outworked Goodlatte from start to finish, and then, hey, wasn’t Goodlatte running commercials at the end, and telling audiences what he would do “if” he was re-elected…
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The formal entree of former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe into the 2009 governor’s race on Monday means all the players are present and accounted for now. McAuliffe, who filed papers today to run for governor, but is officially still only exploring a possible run, will compete for the Democratic nomination with Northern Virginia…
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WINNER: Virginia Democrats It’s one thing to elect Mark Warner and Jim Webb and Tim Kaine. It’s another entirely to pull the lever for Barack Obama. My friend Mark Rozell at George Mason said it best when we talked in the days leading up to the election. “I don’t think we could have had this…
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The Northern Virginia numbers were what turned it Election Night, but don’t be misled by the TV drama that is Election Night. Because Barack Obama wouldn’t have won Virginia if he hadn’t done as well as he did in the Fifth and Sixth congressional districts.
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Column by Chris Graham “If I forget everything else when I get old and gray,” a friend told me Tuesday night, “I hope I never forget this feeling.” I understood completely what he was saying, because I had just had a similar thought myself. CNN and Fox News had just called the presidential race in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States, in no small part due to Virginia, which voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in 44 years as it also elected a Democrat in Mark Warner to the United States Senate by a historic margin…
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