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“Which one of your candidates is the one that fired his campaign manager?” I happened to be standing at the Staunton-Augusta Democratic Party booth at the Augusta County Fair last week when that question was directed at a volunteer. The reference was to a report from University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato from earlier…
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Tim Kaine went Mark Warner to win the 2005 governor’s race. Creigh Deeds is channeling his inner Barack Obama. “This evening, President Barack Obama will join Creigh Deeds and Governor Tim Kaine as we work to kick this campaign into overdrive – and in conjunction with his visit, we’re launching a full scale organizing campaign,…
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The Creigh Deeds campaign released two new campaign radio spots today – one featuring information on how voters can sign up to receive campaign-news updates on their mobile phones, the second featuring Gov. Tim Kaine in Spanish reaching out to Spanish-language voters. You can listen to both spots below.
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Today begins and ends with the Barack Obama-Creigh Deeds events in Tysons Corner. The president will appear on behalf of the Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee at a fundraiser at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner this afternoon, then deliver remarks at a rally for Deeds at the Hilton with Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine also in attendance…
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It started for me when I got the e-mail from the Erik Curren House campaign last week pushing back a self-imposed campaign-fundraising deadline. The questions. The Curren camp had wanted to raise $20,000 following the announcement that Republican incumbent Chris Saxman was dropping out of the race to show viability and support at the home…
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I just love getting caught up in the crosshairs of a political controversy. “We appreciate the Augusta Free Press setting the record straight,” an e-mail from the campaign of Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling offered up, after having explained that we had reported that Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nominee Jody Wagner had gotten it wrong when…
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People in Wise County prefer to be on welfare, to hear the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia tell it. Mullins made a comment to that effect last month, according to a report in The Recorder, a weekly newspaper based in Highland County, in summing up a story about a Wise County insurance company…
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There were no polls, as one of the candidates for the Republican Party nomination in the 20th, Dickie Bell, famously tried to assert upon the departure of State Del. Chris Saxman from the 20th District race two weeks ago, but conventional wisdom would have had Saxman ahead of Democrat Erik Curren if there had been…
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Republicans for Deeds. A prominent Democrat for McDonnell. The fight for the center is on. “Eighteen years ago, I came to Richmond as a freshman delegate with both Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell,” former Roanoke Republican State Sen. Brandon Bell said this week at the launch of what is formally known as Virginians for Deeds,…
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“During her trip to the Valley and as you reported during her stop in Waynesboro, Wagner accused the LG of only recently supporting the Governor’s Opportunity Fund. However, Jody Wagner is dead wrong.” That was the message to me from Randy Marcus, the chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, pulling double duty in…
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