Waynesboro: Warner campaign postpones scheduled visit

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two Mark Warner campaign events scheduled for Monday in Waynesboro have been postponed. There was no word from the campaign as to why the events had to be taken off the schedule. An e-mail from the campaign noted that all events scheduled for Sunday and Monday had to be taken…

Waynesboro: Warner to visit on Monday

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Virginia governor Mark Warner will be in Waynesboro on Monday to make two U.S. Senate campaign stops. A 4:15 p.m. event is being planned at Rick’s BBQ in Downtown Waynesboro. Warner will meet and greet voters at Rick’s at the free public event. Earlier on Monday, Warner is scheduled…

Virginia: Warner backs Obama, campaign manager says

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] “We’ve been doing everything we possibly can to make sure that we’re coordinated with the Obama campaign,” Mark Warner’s campaign manager, Mike Henry, told me today, responding to a column in the AFP last week in which I noted how Warner seemed to me to be playing it kind of…

Waynesboro: Moran stumps for Obama, Warner, has eyes on ’09 prize

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The last time Virginia went Democratic for president, gas was 25 cents, The Beatles were about to make their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat, and Brian Moran was 5 years old. “A lot has changed, but this year, Virginia is going to elect…

Harrisonburg: Republicans for Warner

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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…

Virginia Politics: Warner still has sizable lead

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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….