Maybe it’s to keep him on a short leash (joking… or am I?), but Jon Baliles of River City Rapids has gone and gotten himself a job with City Hall.  Or City Hall went and got itself a blogger.  Either way, good move, especially since Jon’s already been doing a lot of shilling for the city.

Source: NYT

It’s interesting to see the county by county breakdown of this. Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee seem to appeal to the same areas of lower growth and population density while Barack Obama and John McCain benefit most in areas that attract more “new” Virginians. That’s not to say that Eastern Virginians are any less established or at home than Western Virginians. Just interesting to visualize and it will be interesting to see if these maps look similar come November, only with McCain pulling more votes in the Clinton/Huckabee areas in the east while Obama stays strong in the west.
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NYT on the rehabilitation of Michael Vick’s dogs:

Pit bulls seized from illegal fighting operations are usually euthanized after becoming property of the government. The Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recommended that Mr. Vick’s dogs be euthanized, but many animal rescue organizations urged the prosecutors to let the dogs live.

The government agreed to give them a second chance after Mr. Vick agreed to pay $928,073 for evaluation and care of all the dogs. They were seen by animal experts, who named the dogs, and were eventually dispersed to eight rescue organizations for adoption, rehabilitation or lifetime care in sanctuaries, where they have been neutered. Only one of the Vick dogs was euthanized for aggression against people.

Ollie North calls it “Decision Time For Conservatives“:

Neither John McCain nor anyone in his campaign asked me to write this column. But I cannot sit silently while my fellow conservatives do to John McCain what GOP “moderates” did to me. Today the stakes for our country are far higher, and the implications for the future are far greater than who sits in one of 100 U.S. Senate seats. Now our nation is at war against a vicious foe. We need a president who has proved how to win it.

By a margin of 50% to 40%, John McCain carried Virginia over Mike Huckabee.  McCain also won Maryland and DC.

On the other side of the debate, Barack Obama ran the table against Hillary Clinton and took the front runner status, one he held before if you didn’t count super delegates, one he holds for sure now even with them in the equation.  Hillary’s making a Giuliani-esque “firewall” stand in Texas and Ohio on March 4th and, well, where’s Giuliani now?