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“The GOP Has Learned Nothing”: A Party Letting Its Base Lead Where The Rest...
You’d think the conservative base would have learned its lesson in 2010, when, in a fever pitch of epic magnitude, it nominated Christine O’Donnell, Ken Buck, Sharron Angle and Joe Miller to run for...
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“Tied At The Hip”: E.W. Jackson Throws A Wrench Into The Ken Cuccinelli Plan
Ken Cuccinelli’s plan for winning the Virginia gubernatorial race is straightforward. Avoid outspoken statements on social issues—the same ones that alienate most Virginians but excite his rightwing...
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“Let The Excitement Begin”: Virginia GOP Continues Its Sprint From The...
E.W. Jackson, the Republicans’ candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia this year, is on record saying quite a few nutty things. Late last week, however, Jackson effectively said his bizarre...
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“More Autopsies In The Future”: The GOP Makeover Is The Same As It Ever Was
In March, the Republican National Committee released its so-called autopsy of the 2012 elections. It focused mainly on the growing Hispanic vote — of which Mitt Romney garnered only 27 percent. To...
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“The Politics Of Free Food”: The Rules On Campaign Contributions In Virginia...
Today, let’s talk about Virginia, host of the nation’s most interesting off-year election. True, the New York mayor’s race has been pretty frisky since we acquired Anthony Weiner as a candidate, but...
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“71st Governor Of Virginia”: Governor “Ultrasound” Receives An Engraved Rolex...
Just when it seemed the controversy surrounding Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) couldn’t get worse, it gets worse. A prominent political donor purchased a Rolex watch for Virginia Gov. Robert F....
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“New Revelations Imperil Virginia’s Governor”: It’s Becoming Increasingly...
Just last night, while reporting on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R) efforts to address one aspect of the scandal surrounding him, Rachel noted that the governor’s term in office ends officially in...
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“Bob McDonnell Is Unfit For Office”: A Sense Of Entitlement And A Conviction...
There are two swift routes to political downfall. One is sex. The other is money. The first is humiliating but survivable. The second tends to be terminal, even criminal. Today’s topic is the second,...
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“Just A Shift In Strategy”: Virginia’s Gov Bob McDonnell Repays Loans, Says...
The scandal surrounding Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R), which has intensified in recent weeks and threatens to push him from office, took an unexpected turn today when the governor apologized for...
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“A Wingnut For Everyone”: Nowadays, Every Fringe Group Has Its Republican...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is pretty much detested by women in Virginia — Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who once left his crying wife and their infant child in a car so that he could make an...
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“Once Again, The Pundits Get It Wrong”: The Virginia Election Was A Big Win...
As the Affordable Care Act was about to go fully into effect last month, the New York Times ran a big front-page article highlighting the fact that millions of Americans would go uncovered by the law...
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“Group Polarization Intensifies”: Only Hearing Praise Back Home, It’s Too...
Don’t write the tea party’s obituary just yet. Despite historic victories over tea party extremism in Tuesday’s elections, we haven’t seen the last of tea partiers. First, the good news. Effectiveness...
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“Voting For Governor Is One Thing, For President, Another”: The Wrong...
The conventional wisdom on New Jersey: Huge Chris Christie win sets him up to steamroll his way to the Republican nomination in 2016, proving that a more mainstream conservative can win in a blue...
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“And This Too Shall Fail”: The GOP Wants To Solve Its “Woman Problem” By...
Three women in Virginia have started a consulting firm to help the Republican party appeal to women voters, which seems like it will be a real challenge since the Republican party is terrible on the...
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“The GOP Is Driving In Circles”: Like Past Outreach Efforts, “Burning Glass”...
Just days after Republican Ken Cuccinelli discovered that running as the transvaginal ultrasound candidate may have been a mistake in increasingly blue Virginia, three Republican women are launching a...
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“Liz Cheney Goes Home To Washington”: At Least Now She Can Stop Pretending...
Liz Cheney, who was trailing in polls by somewhere between 30 and 50 points, announced today that she is ending her Senate primary campaign against Republican Mike Enzi, a campaign that had been...
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“Boy, How Things Have Changed”: We Will All Be Represented By Lobbyists Someday
Today, former Bush operative and tobacco lobbyist extraordinaire Ed Gillespie confirmed he is going to challenge Virginia Senator Mark Warner. This comes on the heels of news Monday that David Jolly,...
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“The Price For Letting Them Off Easy”: The Bush Era Starting To Take On Less...
Things that make me want to sanitize my brain by dunking my head in a bucket of iodine: As George W. Bush’s public image improves, more former Bush officials are running for office — and are starting...
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“Pipe Dreams Do Come True”: Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Completes His...
Bob McDonnell’s only been out of office for 10 days, but his post-gubernatorial life is already off to a rough start. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged the former Virginia governor and his wife,...
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“Unreasonable Absolutist Death Penalties”: The ‘Stand Your Ground’ Mindset Is...
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law was not invoked by the defense at either the trial of George Zimmerman or, more recently, Michael Dunn. But the mindset was present in both cases, and raises some...
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