Ed Gillespie

Last night was the annual Prince William County Republican Committee’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner.  At the event, Ted Kirkpatrick and Coles District leaders hosted a presidential straw poll.  Every attendee was offered a ballot when they checked in.[read_more] The ballots consisted of two identical long lists…

2014 has been a very productive time for us here at The Bull Elephant. This was just our first full year, after opening shop late in the 2013 campaign season, but what a remarkable year it has been! Slating. Cantor. Medicaid Expansion. The meteoric campaign…

The Republican party celebrated its 31st Advance earlier this month. (The party rightly calls it an Advance, because the old name was Retreat, which some would interpret as losing ground and hiding from the fight.) Many questions were asked about what happened in the 2014…

Bill Card, chairman of the Prince William County Republican Committee, offers a Republican-centric counterpoint to The Bull Elephant’s Brian Reynolds’ article on the issue-centric power of the Virginia Citizens Defense League.[read_more] The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) were the guys with the booth in the…

At the Virginia Republican Advance Ed Gillespie addressed the party faithful from across the state urging them to build on his efforts to bring more minorities into the party as well as uniting the different factions of the party. [read_more] “A bigger Republican majority in our…

[UPDATE: Travis Fain at the Daily Press reports that a Hampton University spokesman has said the poll was not released because it showed the opposite of what we wrongly suspected.[read_more]  Instead of showing Gillespie gaining ground, it showed Warner up by double digits, apparently causing…