The Virginian Federalist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Virginia voter registrations closed on Monday 10/3/08. Today I created a table comparing locality by locality the number of active voter registrations recorded by the Virginia State Board of Elections and the 2007 Populations estimates for adults 18+ available from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The average percentage of registrations compared...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Virginia for the first time in 40 years is up for grabs.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By Greg Esposito greg.esposito@roanoke.com 381-1675 Virginia Tech will be the center of the state youth environmental movement this weekend as host of Virginia Power Shift 2008.
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
Savor the headline. They are taking their biggest asset and sending it to West the f'ng Virginia! Wheee! Palin has scheduled a bus tour through a state that until, roughly, now, everyone had assumed was safely McCain's. West Virginia Democrats rejected Obama for "cultural" reasons in the primary, and it was a place where reporters gathered a lot of string on his race problem.
Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | yesterday
It appears that perhaps the latest ARG poll in West Virginia might not be too far behind the McCain campaign's internal polling: Palin has scheduled a bus tour through a state that until, roughly, now, everyone had assumed was safely McCain's. I was one of those who assumed that as well. But the state does have a nearly 50+ percent Democratic voter registration...so if he could pull 70% of Democrats...
seeking spirit (Free subscription) | yesterday
West Virginia 50% Obama 42% McCain Oct 04 Oct 08 ARG Pollster West Virginia, oh my Home West Virginia, oh my home. West Virginia, where I belong. In the dead of the night, in the still and the quiet I slip away like a bird in flight Back to those hills, the place that I call home. It’s been years now since I left there And this city life’s about [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Lexology, October 10, 2008. Virginia - First Amendment trumps Virginia spam statute Wiley Rein LLP "On September 12, the Virginia Supreme Court reversed the conviction of notorious spammer Jeremy Jaynes, who had been sentenced to nine years in prison following a 2004 trial."
MyDD (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Yesterday Carnacki highlighted polling from the generally unreliable American Research Group showing Barack Obama leading in West Virginia by a 50 percent to 42 percent margin. While I think there's no way the race actually looks like that -- if you take ARG polling out of the mix , John McCain leads in the state by a 47.5 percent to 40.8 percent margin -- there are some indications that the...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Perhaps ARG's recent poll in West Virginia was on target. CNN : "In what may be another signal that the troubled economy is forcing John McCain's campaign to play electoral map defense, Sarah Palin has scheduled a bus tour for Sunday through West Virginia, a state that's been leaning red throughout this presidential race."
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Crime and Justice News, October 10, 2008. "The Virginia Department of Corrections, the state's largest agency with 13,606 employees, will bear the brunt of new state job cuts announced by Gov. Tim Kaine, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Two correctional centers and four smaller facilities will be closed, accounting for more than 250 of the 330 positions the department is eliminating...
Orange::44 (Free subscription) | yesterday
I can't possibly overstate how ridiculous this is. Syracuse and West Virginia used to be a game that meant a lot to the Big East. It was different than Miami/Virginia Tech, Connecticut wasn’t in the league yet, and Syracuse was good. These days, things are not as great as they once were. While they still play for the Schwartzwalder Trophy, West Virginia has been...
Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The average of eight polls indicates Obama is now leading McCain by 5.1 percent in Virginia. Considered in spring a solid red state, and then in summer a toss-up state, Virginia's electorate now leans Obama, pushing his numbers on the electoral map over 270 votes required to win. Those supposedly crucial swing states, Ohio and Floria, may not even matter . I have a hard time swallowing...
Discriminations (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hans Bader is on the case — see here and here — of growing voter fraud in Virginia, aided and abetted by liberal Democratic Governor Tim Kaine and the ACLU. It’s not a pretty picture.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
At what could be called ground zero for downtown tourism, the Reno City Council endorsed a project to renovate the tired, old storefronts on a block of Virginia Street opposite of Harrah's Reno.
MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
People were shocked by ARG's poll showing Barack Obama up by 8 points here in West Virginia. I'll admit, I was too. I spoke to people in the West Virginia Democratic Party, who looked at the polls internals on the demographics: age, party breakdown, etc. They thought the demographics looked accurate except for this: The poll listed 55 percent Democrats. The actual number in the state...
