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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
It failed to make his master's thesis at the university Pat Robertson founded a campaign killer, but the Washington Post is still intent on finding ways to damage governor-elect Bob McDonnell even before he takes office. In a Metro-section front-pager today , Post staffer Rosalind Helderman insisted that some recent remarks by Robertson about the nature of Islam following the Fort Hood shooting have...
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Fishersville Mike (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Chris Graham looks at the voting numbers in Waynesboro. 2004 - John Kerry 30 percent 2008 - Barack Obama 44 percent 2009 - Creigh Deeds 31 percent Now, besides changing his name to Barack Obama Deeds, what could he have done to excite voters and the party faithful? You can only have the first African-American running for president once. When the excitement of that wears off, does that leave Democrats...
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Fishersville Mike (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Blue Virginia touts a poll showing voters who stayed home wanting a more progressive candidate than Creigh Deeds turned out to be. They had two - Brian Moran and Terry McAuliffe. They were sent packing June 9. Tell me again why McAuliffe - with all his money and chutzpah - wasn't the nominee?
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I am not sure why I expected people to resist the temptation to over-read the results of two gubernatorial races on Tuesday. Jon Corzine hasn't seen approval numbers north of 40% in over a year, and his loss in New Jersey seemed inevitable. And Creigh Deeds had been trailing Robert McDonnell by double digits for months. What could these two elections tell us except that unpopular candidates lose elections?...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Photo by cmoaknd Good morning, Washington. DCist is actually compiling the Roundup from Philadelphia this morning, where the streets are overflowing in grief after last night's World Series loss. We didn't spy any rowdy crowds or inappropriate displays of frustration after the game, but we don't even want to think about what might have happened had something like the Cox cable outage in Virginia gone...
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WalletPop Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: Wealth , Relationships , Recession , Retirement-401(k) Despite mainstream media predictions about the election hinging on the president's performance, it appears as though the economy was a much greater factor in the two key gubernatorial races yesterday. The economy was the anvil that crushed the chances of Democrats Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds. According to exit polls in Virginia and...
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The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As most of you know, Hoffman, the third party candidate, lost in NY23, getting 45 percent of the vote (hey, a few weeks ago polls were showing him with 13 percent) when the Republican Scozzafava gave her endorsement to the Democrat candidate. Oddly, Robert Gibbs, the President's press secretary, not only thinks this was the only election that had anything to do with the President, he also gets his...
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Discriminations (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics gets almost everything right almost all of the time, but I believe he missed a little in his analysis today of What the Voters Told Us Last Night. Here’s what he says they told us: The following points are what we know for certain: 1. The voters of Virginia declared a preference for Bob McDonnell over Creigh Deeds. 2. The voters of New Jersey declared a preference...
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Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
All the poll-tracking is over. All the speculation about the meaning of the 2008 election is over. All the wondering about the vitality of the Obama magic is over. Elections have a nice way of clearing the air of prognostications and predictions. We have results. We have actual votes, not polls of possible voters. And the lesson this year is very simple. Independent voters utterly loathe the Democrats....
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ProLifeBlogs (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
FRONT ROYAL, VA, November 4, 2009/Christian Newswire -- "Every time an election is held and pro-abortion candidates win, Planned Parenthood runs to the media to say the results show great support for its agenda. But the hierarchy of the abortion-committing group is silent now that voters in NJ and VA have soundly rejected the politics of death espoused by Planned Parenthood- endorsed candidates,"...
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jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I thought this Twitter post last night by Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was pretty funny... As American Life League wrote in a press release entitled, "Planned Parenthood fail: Endorsement 'kiss of death' for Deeds, Scozzafava, Corzine": What do Dede Scozzafava , Creigh Deeds and Gov. Jon Corzine have in common? All were endorsed by abortion mammoth Planned Parenthood . All 3 candidates...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo by brianmka Good morning, Washington. As expected, Bob McDonnell thoroughly defeated Creigh Deeds in yesterday's race for the Virginia governor's office. Conservatives' efforts did well nationwide in general , in fact, with the exception of the tumultuous NY-23 race. Experts will be quick to tell you that election results during an off-year shouldn't be used to draw any broad conclusions...
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FreeColorado.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last year, I argued that the big loser in Colorado's elections was the religious right. Particularly here in the Interior West, Republican candidates who want to ram religious dogmas down people's throats by force of law tend to scare the living hell out of voters, and that's a major reason why Democrats now control all three branches of government in Colorado. The general approach among Colorado Republicans...
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Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
No matter how hard I try. You’re so unpredictable. Virginia: Creigh Deeds sucked it, hard. Deeds did his damndest to discourage the voters that turned out for Obama last year while McDonnell ran a good campaign. My guess is this election was far more about traditional NoVa gripes about things like traffic in addition to [...]
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Major news outlets are calling the Virginia governor's race for Republican Bob McDonnell, who's viewed gays with disdain his entire life and has argued LGBTs are undeserving of discrimination protections because, well, employers should have the right to refuse to hire queers. CONTINUED » Permalink | 1 comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, [...]
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