Poll: ‘Too conservative’ Cuccinelli trails McAuliffe by eight
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Nearly half of Virginia voters label Ken Cuccinelli “too conservative,” one possible reason the Republican is trailing big in the Virginia governor’s race.
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Chris Graham: Negotiate, or else
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We’ve got your daughter. We don’t want anything bad to happen. But you want to negotiate, we’re ready to negotiate. Isn’t that what it feels like Republicans are doing in this increasingly insane government shutdown fiasco?
Poll: Shutdown boosts McAuliffe in governor’s race
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A new Politico poll has Democrat Terry McAuliffe ahead of Republican Ken Cuccinelli by nine points in the Virginia governor’s race, and suggests that the growing lead is the result of voter backlash against the GOP for the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Fox News poll: Americans want government shutdown to end
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A new Fox News poll shows overwhelming support for getting the federal government up and running again.
Sarvis for #VAGov statement on federal government shutdown
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The government shutdown is further proof of the extreme dysfunction we’ve come to expect from Republicans and Democrats.
Ken Plum: Affordable Care Act
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Another phase of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became effective this week. Although controversial among some politicians who refer to the Act as “Obamacare,” it is proving extremely beneficial for those who have had limited or no access to health care.
Shutdown: When truth is the first casualty
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We’ve heard that in wartime, truth is the first casualty. A close second must be the current brouhaha about the government shutdown and who’s responsible. What seems lost is the record of how we got here.
3QuickThoughts: Shutdown
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham offers 3 Quick Thoughts on the federal government shutdown – and specifically what Democrats need to do, what Republicans need to do, and what President Obama needs to do to end the stalemate.
Chris Graham: The new dumbest thing about the shutdown
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So now they’re going to cancel college football games. This blows the rest of the dumb stuff about the shutdown away.
Warner, Kaine introduce measure to restore federal pay post-shutdown
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland to introduce a bill, the “Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act,” that would guarantee that federal workers who were furloughed because of the lapse in federal funding or government shutdown would receive their full pay.
