Jim Hoeft and Brian Kirwin over at Bearing Drift shared their thoughts last week about the relevance of political blogging in this year’s General Assembly elections. While their points about the state of the blogosphere are true (not for lack of trying, competition, partisanship and vitriol creating a turn-off), I think trying to compare the impact [...]
Norm Leahey highlights the failures of the Senate Leadership Trust this election cycle with an interesting list:
as my friend points out, looking at the roster of Republicans at the bottom of the email reveals an interesting fact:
Many of them have either retired or lost their re-election bids…
Sen. J. Brandon Bell, II (Roanoke) — defeated in [...]
Patrick Ruffini and Justin Hart share their thoughts on Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and what it says about the Virginia GOP.
From Ruffini’s post:
Instead of applying blunt force on the immigration issue in a diverse community, you zero in on the illegal immigration-related quality of life concerns that 90% of the electorate can identify with, like the [...]
Wow.
Liveblogging the election results from RPV really gave the ol’ site a bit of a traffic boost. Now, I say this is a record for J’s Notes but I’m not 100% sure. There was a couple days back in 2003 where the site saw quick the uptick because of Instapundit linkage, but since I don’t [...]
D.J. MacGwire has a great evaluation of Tuesday’s elections and what it means for Virginia GOP. The whole thing is a great read.
A brief statement from Shaun Kenney, Communications Director of the RPV:
140 seats open for reelection and the voters chose to send back a Republican majority in the House and nearly chose to send back a Republican majority in the Senate. The message is simple, Democrats are being asked to bi-partisanly build on the Republican successes [...]
Find your polling place here and get yerself out there to vote. Polls are open until 7pm. Every seat in the State Senate and House are up and the results of this election will have an impact for many years to come, momentum into 2008’s US Senate race, the statewide races of 2009, redistricting in [...]
Ouch.
A Washington lobbying shop filed a $1 million defamation suit Friday against the Democratic Party of Virginia and a legislative candidate over an ad that links the firm to the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The Livingston Group, founded by former U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston, is asking a Fairfax County court to rule [...]
Seems Brian Moran was on WTOP this weekend setting the tone of defeat for Democrats running to try and take over the Virginia Senate, “saying many of these districts were too tailored to Republicans for them to win“.
Defeatism abounds as Dem blogs have run out of great things to say about their candidates who have [...]