The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
RICHMOND, Va. — Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something." But on Tuesday, the Virginia Commonwealth University student didn't bother voting in the governor's...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CONDÉ Nast CEO Charles Townsend and Chairman S.I. Newhouse, Jr. are turning to Washington, DC-based crisis manager and media coach Michael Sheehan to help with PR. Sheehan has coached Democratic presidential candidates from Bill Clinton to Barac...
Standard Mischief (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism'” Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, asked in an interview with National Public Radio. “If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?” So in view of the shortage of the H1N1 vaccine, I must ask of John Kerry and his fellow Democrats what...
Audacity Of Hypocrisy & Deception (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
RICHMOND, Va. - Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about “being a part of something.” But on Tuesday, the Virginia Commonwealth University student didn’t bother [...]
Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Big election victories by a slate of conservative Republicans in Virginia shows the party is turning back the Democratic tide Virginia, according to the old bumper sticker slogan, is for lovers. In yesterday's off-year elections, Virginians were lovers of Republicans. GOP candidates swept all three statewide offices and made gains in the state general assembly. A year after turning...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
During the Bush administration, the Democrats seized on the shortage of the flu vaccine to accuse the administration of being unable to protect Americans — from either illness or terrorism. “If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism'” Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, asked in an interview with National...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... the ‘purging’ of religion from schools”--he managed to duck the tarring his Democratic opponent, state Senator R. Creigh Deeds, tried to give him. McDonnell outpolled Deeds during most of that contest, and even the White House was heard recently grumbling about how poorly Deeds had followed the successful campaign examples provided by the commonwealth’s two most recent...
Faith and Fear in Flushing (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The President returned to the White House late that night to cope with history. History...would not care at all that the Cards won the World Series that day by 4 to 3. —Theodore White, Making of the President 1964 , regarding the events of 10/15/64 On December 15, 1991, six Democratic presidential candidates met in New Hampshire for a debate in advance of that state's first-in-the-nation...
MSNBC.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on the president.
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on the president.
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Fox News Republican Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governor’s race by a wide margin Tuesday, heading up a successful GOP ticket in the swing state which voted for President Obama a year ago. McDonnell’s victory over Democrat Creigh Deeds ends eight years of Democratic control of the governorship. President Obama, who was the first Democratic presidential candidate...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Republicans have won the governorship of Virginia and ousted the incumbent Democratic governor in New Jersey Barack Obama suffered a double blow last night when the Republicans secured stunning victories in the first electoral test since he won the White House a year ago. The Republicans celebrated a comeback that reverses a trend of Democratic victories stretching back to 2005....
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... "this is the Sabato law" - but it's not. It was a poorly-run, underfunded campaign and a candidate who either wouldn't or couldn't play well with the Democrats in the DC suburbs. The lesson of the New Jersey Gubernatorial race was that, as James Carville famously said: "It's the economy, stupid." There is a side issue of Corzine spending a bit too much time insulting...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Bob McDonnell led the Republican Party of Virginia out of the wilderness tonight: Virginians elected Republican Robert F. McDonnell the commonwealth’s 71st governor Tuesday, sweeping the GOP to power and emphatically halting a decade of Democratic advances in the critical swing state. The former state attorney general handily defeated Democratic state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds throughout...
