Virginia parties gear for collision course
The News Virginian - Wed Dec 2, 12:06 am ETA year ago, Virginia Democrats were celebrating the first statewide victory by a presidential candidate in 44 years with Barack Obama ’s win in Old Dominion.
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A year ago, Virginia Democrats were celebrating the first statewide victory by a presidential candidate in 44 years with Barack Obama ’s win in Old Dominion.
Bob McDonnell won election as governor on the promise of digging Virginia out of its transportation mess, without raising a cent of new taxes. But the Republican governor-elect's plan to fund a languishing road and rail network has done little to spark optimism that his administration will succeed where others have failed.
Fresh off major Election Day victories in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans got another boost Wednesday with a new Gallup poll that shows registered voters favoring the GOP over Democrats if the 2010 congressional election were held today. The Gal...
With daughters Michal and Virginia, wife Kathi and Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland looking on, City Council member Kevin Hyde makes his mayoral run official Tuesday by filing the necessary paperwork.
The results for three special elections to replace the governor, attorney general and lieutenant governor of Virginia ushered in a victory for the Republican Party. Another victory for the GOP came in the from of a new governor of New Jersey.
If you could declare the recession over today, it still wouldn't mean a return to rosy times for state and local governments. State Sen. Edd Houck, D-Spotsylvania, attended meetings of the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors and the Fredericksburg City Council last night to deliver a sobering message on the budget crisis the state faces, and the difficult decisions that state cuts are likely to ...
If there's one take-home message from the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, it's that Americans have had enough. With concerns over national-and family-finances, many voters are adopting increasingly conservative attitudes. Republican Chris Christie's victory in the Garden State and Bob McDonnell's win in Virginia last week showed that voters in each state aren't just ...
Back in August, U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher promised an Abingdon town hall meeting that he wouldn’t vote for any health care plans that figured on the government competing with private businesses.
The Republican thumping of 2009 forever damages the political legacy of the state’s ranking Democrat, Gov. Tim Kaine.
Much like the Mary Sue Terry debacle in 1993, too many assumptions doomed the Democrats and Creigh Deeds.
How Virginia Democrats overestimated the power of Obama and underestimated the importance of independent voters.