The Biden trump

Chris Graham

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…

Who is the fiscally conservative governor?

Chris Graham

Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] The small but cheery group of Republicans who are doing what they can to boost Jim Gilmore in his Senate race against Mark Warner are heartily pushing, following Gilmore’s lead, the notion that he is a fiscal conservative and that Warner is a tax-and-spend liberal and so you ought…

What about another Virginian as VP?

Chris Graham

Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The only question to me would be how he would get around having said repeatedly that he is not interested in the job. Because otherwise, wouldn’t the #2 spot on Barack Obama’s national ticket be Mark Warner’s to lose? Even the Obama people seem to think so. Journalist Marc Ambinder…

The car tax as a Senate voting issue

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Since my time as your governor,” Jim Gilmore writes in a fundraising letter that went out last week, “I have routinely been vilified by the biased liberal media, by the state Democratic Party and even by the liberal tax-and-spend members of my own party. Why? Because I promised…

Is rumored Obama-Kaine event in Virginia on Thursday related to VP selection?

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s put two and two together and see what we get, shall we? Politico is reporting that Barack Obama is likely to announce his vice-presidential running mate this week, and notes that Obama is scheduled to be in New Mexico today with VP contender Bill Richardson and on Wednesday in…