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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Breaking news – Barack Obama selects Tim Kaine to be … Sorry. Just testing the emergency broadcast system. If this had been actual breaking news, I wouldn’t know what the hell to do, considering how long this nonstory has been dragging on. The news today is more of the same….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling apparently got the memo about making sure to talk up John McCain – and take a shot or two at Barack Obama. “Contrary to, I guess, conventional wisdom, I happen to be one who believes as this campaign moves forward that Sen. McCain’s candidacy in Virginia is going…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama is spending the day on Wednesday in Virginia, then is spending the night that night in Richmond, according to a report on the Washington Post Virginia Politics blog yesterday. You could say that this is fueling speculation about the announcement that is expected to come on Wednesday or…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything is on the table, Gov. Tim Kaine told state legislators today as the two sides began to address a projected billion-dollar shortfall in the current biennial state budget. “The need to engage in a third major round of budget reductions will mean, by necessity, that all programs — including…
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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…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] THEY CALLED HIM ‘TURD BLOSSOM’: Karl Rove assails Tim Kaine I think I agree with Tim Kaine. When they send Karl Rove out to attack you, well … “Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years,” Rove told Bob Schieffer on the CBS…
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Column by Jim Bishop Greetings from Harrisonburg! I thought this would be my annual beach report, live and direct from the Outer Banks, N.C. But, as Scottish poet Robert (Sun)Burns rightly observed, “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang often go awry” (Gang aft agley). Instead, I’m hunkered down in the bedroom of our…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about Tim Kaine being on Barack Obama’s VP short list is no accident. Just look at the timing. That’s what has Christopher Newport University political-science professor Quentin Kidd thinking there’s more to the firestorm of coverage on this short-list news than maybe meets the eye. “There are two…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A story published today on Politico.com has Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine “very, very high” on the short list of presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mates.
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign is trying to add 150,000 names to the voter-registration rolls in advance of the ’08 elections, the idea being that new voters will break Democratic in a substantial way and push what could be a close contest in the Old Dominion in November in the…
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