Will Democratic House Candidates Outpoll Ralph Northam in their Districts?
By Josh Stanfield of Activate Virginia Over the past few months, I’ve been going back and forth with Gene Magruder on this question: will we see Democratic House of Delegates candidates, particularly...
View ArticleComparing 2017 to 2013 House of Delegates Results Leads to Some Interesting...
In comparing 2017 to 2013 results for Virginia House of Delegates races, I wasn’t sure anything interesting would pop out, but as it turns out, it very much did. For instance, check out the first...
View ArticleMark Obenshain Claims Problems with Fairfax County Ballot Security
What on earth is this?!? Are these people serious? (UPDATE 2:13 pm: the Daily Press quotes Fairfax County Electoral Board secretary Brian Schoeneman (R) that “the ballots were locked in the precinct...
View ArticleIt’s High Time to Change Virginia’s Code Regarding Contested Elections
Yesterday, we heard that Mark Obenshain’s high-priced, overeager attorneys raised, for the first time publicly, the prospect of contesting Virginia’s Attorney General election, “if the tally does not...
View ArticleHerring campaign “completely confident” that “recount” will reconfirm his...
I was on a conference call this afternoon with the Herring campaign, updating reporters on the status of the “recount.” First, here’s an update from Mark Herring for AG campaign manager Kevin...
View ArticleVirginia AG Recount Open Thread. UPDATE: Obenshain Concedes to Herring
In addition to the excellent background diary posted by Dan Sullivan this morning, it seems to me that an “open thread” on the Virginia AG “recount” is in order. Note that this spreadsheet, being...
View ArticleBREAKING: GOP Nominates Anti-Semitic “Joke” Guy for VA State Senate
Yep, they really did. @ClarkeGOP tweets, “John Whitbeck wins 33rd VA Senate Republican nomination with 70% of vote !!!” See the video below of Whitbeck “joking” around. As if that’s not bad enough,...
View ArticleThe William Hazel Reappointment
December 18, 2013 Virginia NOW – representing advocates for women’s rights across the state – mobilized women to vote for Terry McAuliffe because of his commitment to advance the interests of women and...
View ArticlePhotos, Video: Alexandria St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2014
After watching for about 2 hours, I finally left, with the political marchers still a ways from moving out of their staging area. So…if anyone has photos or video of the candidates and their supporters...
View ArticleVirginia News Headlines: Tuesday Morning
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 6. *A divided court votes in favor of prayer at council meetings (We need to keep electing Democrats as...
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