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David Poisson’s Magic Grade Deflator
Delegate David Poisson (D-Sterling) is carrying HB1603 in the upcoming General Assembly session, a bill that would actually codify, into state law, a grading scale for Virginia public schools. It would be decreed that 90% and up is an A, 80% a B, and so forth, presumably to relieve students tired...
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Published 2 weeks ago

The Food Stamp Nation
With less than a year left until 2009’s legislative elections (what’s an off year?), Barack Obama’s seismic victory in Virginia leaves many House Republicans quaking in their boots. After all, according to Dave Albo, the state’s been flooded with food stamp recipients, which are...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Field Program Fail
Campaigns are won with trench warfare (commonly known as the ground game) and air support (ads and media). What’s unique about political marketing is that unlike, say, selling blenders, you can get a horde of like-minded volunteers who will give up their precious free time to talk to hostile...
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Published a month ago

VA-10, Loudoun County, and the Obama Wave
Democratic Congressional candidate Judy Feder at a Joe Biden Rally in Loudoun County, Virginia It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This is the story of a Republican district gone wrong. This is the story of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, which may very well flip to Obama next week,...
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Published a month ago

The Mythology of the Real Virginia
Earlier today, John McCain sent senior adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer on MSNBC, where she was asked about Virginia. In fit of pique, Pfotenhauer assailed Northern Virginia where John McCain’s campaign headquarters are located, and spoke of “the rest of the state, ‘real Virginia.” Given a...
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Published a month ago

How Bad Is The Stock Market?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 8,579.19, its lowest level since May 7, 2003. That means when the Dow Jones was last at this level, I was in sixth grade. That’s me, bottom row, second from left. Do you feel screwed now? 2003 was when I worked my first political campaign. I...
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Published 2 months ago

Voter Registration Patterns
With barely days to go until the voter registration deadline for what promises to be a record-breaking year, thousands of voter registration and absentee ballot form pile up on registrar desks. However, the spike in voter registration has not been equally distributed statewide. Unsurprisingly,...
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Published 2 months ago

His Holiness, The Reverend Delegate Morgan H. Griffith
Back in July, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, not known for secular humanism, ruled that public prayers at a Fredericksburg City Council meeting was government speech, and were required to be non-denominational. After consulting with the office of Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, also...
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Published 2 months ago

Better Know a District
The first qualification of anyone who wishes to be a member of Congress is to know where their district begins and ends. Physically. I snickered as I was driving through a subdivision of White Oaks precinct in Burke, which is in the heart of Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, as I had...
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Published 2 months ago

Joe Biden Fires Up Sterling Women (without mentioning the A-word)
Joined by a pair of students from West Springfield ditching class for the day (I fully support skipping AP Government to see Live Government), I trekked up to Sterling’s Claude Moore Park this morning to hear Joe Biden at a “Women for Obama Rally.” Granted, I’m not a woman, but since it...
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Published 2 months ago