The Senate race in Virginia will be the upset race of 2014. There. I’ve said it. Some of you may recall I have a pretty good track record for predicting election outcomes in Virginia. [read_more]The latest New York Times/CBS News poll has the Senate race in Virginia down…
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Ed Gillespie
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He has really hit the panic button. As polls show a tightening race, and as news for Democrats elsewhere in the state (hello Representative Barbara Comstock) suggests low enthusiasm among Democrats, he’s now attacking Ed Gillespie like he’s running behind. Maybe he knows something we…
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Despite wild speculation to the contrary (as a means to interrupt the growing narrative that Ed Gillespie has made a competitive race out of his bid to unseat Mark Warner), the Gillespie campaign has released a hard-hitting new ad about Mark Warner’s involvement in the…
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While the fireworks in last night’s debate were all about Mark Warner’s apparently being stranded in some sort of weird time warp (acting like he’s running against George W. Bush, and pretending like the last six years never happened), the real story is that he can’t explain away his bribe to get Phil Puckett to keep the Virginia Senate in Democratic hands.
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Combat. Plain and simple, Ed Gillespie has to be willing to take on Mark Warner aggressively. Revelations that Mark Warner offered a federal judgeship to Phil Puckett’s daughter in exchange for Puckett keeping the Virginia Senate in Democrat hands provides just the opening Gillespie needs…
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Mark Warner repeatedly told voters he’d never vote for a bill that would prevent Virginians from keeping their existing health plans. He did just the opposite of what he told voters, and now 250,000 Virginians are about to lose their health coverage as a result.…
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The fundamentals, and the candidates, suggest that this Senate campaign is about to get close, and that Ed Gillespie is going to rapidly turn this race into a turnout contest.[read_more] For months we’ve been reading about polls showing Mark Warner with more than a 20…