On the eve of the Virginia elections, months of campaigning now hinge on voter turnout. Odd-year elections have much lower turnout than presidential years, making it difficult to predict the outcome with precision. UVA’s Center for Virginia Politics expects turnout
Quinnipiac’s final poll of the Virginia Governor’s race finds Democrat Terry McAulliffe with a six point, 46-40, lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli. Libertarian Robert Sarvis garners 8%. The poll noted, however, that “Cuccinelli wins the enthusiasm race among Virginia likely
Ken Cuccinelli is spending the final day of his campaign for VA Governor barnstorming the Commonwealth, holding rallies with the entire GOP ticket and Sen. Marco Rubio. His final event, however, says everything about the race on the eve of
The Northern Virginia Tea Party is planning a rally outside the McAuliffe campaign’s rally with President Obama on Sunday. Joined by Dr. John Cuccinelli, brother of the Republican candidate, the activists will protest ObamaCare and warn about its possible expansion
On Sunday, President Obama will travel to Northern Virginia to campaign for Democrat Terry McAuliffe. The Commonwealth Attorney for Loudon County, however, notes that the appearance may be a conflict of interest, given the federal investigations surrounding McAuliffe’s business interests.
In the final weekend of the campaign for Virginia Governor, Republican Ken Cuccinelli has announced rallies with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Congressman Ron Paul, among other Republicans. The Cuccinelli campaign has put its hopes for a come-from-behind victory
On a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon, Republican Ken Cuccinelli said his campaign was closing aggressively and was “positioned to shock the political world” in Tuesday’s Virginia election. Cuccinelli, who trails Democrat Terry McAuliffe in polling, said his campaign
On Friday, General Motors reported its monthly sales figures for October. Overall the auto company said it sold 33,000 more cars this October, compared to the month last year. Overall sales increased just over 15%, beating Wall Street expectations. Tucked
On Sunday, Democrat Terry McAuliffe will campaign in the vote-rich Northern Virginia suburbs with President Obama. The Obama appearance, coming just two days before voters go to the polls, is obviously intended to increase Dem enthusiasm for McAuliffe and boost
Terry McAuliffe is benefiting from a late surge in campaign donations as national Democrats ensure that he prevails in the important Virginia Governor’s race on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the McAuliffe campaign reported it had received over $500,000 in donations from
The latest NBC/WSJ poll finds that more Americans would vote for a third party candidate for Congress than a Republican. 35% of voters prefer a Democrat, which has been steady for three years. Republicans, however, have experienced an 8-point swing
This week, Disney is opening a new front in the culture wars with the launch of Fusion, a news network targeted to hipster, English-speaking Hispanic millennial’s. Yeah, that’s how splintered the cable market has become. To ease the opening of
A couple weeks ago, Dem Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin posted an outrageous claim on Facebook that a House GOP leader had told President Obama that he “cannot stand to look at” him during talks on resolving a government shutdown.
President Obama will stump for Terry McAuliffe, Democrat candidate for Virginia Governor, on Sunday, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Northern Virginia. It is Obama’s first campaign appearance for McAuliffe, who has held a slim, but steady, lead in all recent
I’ve always thought of Barack Obama as the “Chauncey Gardiner” of American politics. Like Peter Sellers’ character in the classic film, “Being There,” Obama is an embodiment of outsiders’ hopes and dreams for who they think he is. Reality, like
Ron Fournier, an honest liberal at National Journal, reported Monday that a senior Democrat strategist, with close ties to the White House, sent him an email over the weekend. The subject line was “Dem Party Is F****d.” The substance of
The National SuperPAC Fight for Tomorrow is releasing a new ad, “ObamaCare Fiasco,” putting the program’s failed roll-out center stage in the close race for Virginia Governor. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who holds a small lead in the polls, was a
Colorado is one of 14 states operating its own ObamaCare exchange for health insurance. As a result, it has had more success enrolling people than the disastrous federal exchange. Still, Colorado’s relative “success” reveals a deeper problem with the new
There is increasingly little chance that the House will consider immigration reform before the end of the year. Obama and the Democrats have pivoted from the shutdown fight, pressing their advantage to win approval of amnesty legislation. The aftermath of
Republican Ken Cuccinelli brought a circumspect, serious tone to his final debate against Democrat Terry McAuliffe. With less than two weeks before voters go to the polls, Cuccinelli tried to paint McAuliffe as a Washington insider who had done nothing
Ohio Senator Rob Portman told a local news affiliate on Wednesday that he felt changes needed to be made to Leadership campaign PACs. Portman’s statement comes in the wake explosive allegations detailed in a new book,”Extortion“, by Breitbart Senior-Editor-at-Large Peter
UPDATE [11/5/2013]: With 99% of all precincts reporting, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has won the Virginia governor’s race with 47.9% of the vote. Republican Ken Cuccinelli has garnered 45.5%. The Wenzel Strategies poll has proven an accurate measure of the
The NRCC, the campaign arm of the House Republicans, is launching radio ads on Thursday against 11 vulnerable Democrats on the failure of the ObamaCare rollout. The ad buy, in districts across the country, marks the first time this cycle
Over the weekend, IL Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin took to Facebook to make the outrageous claim that a House GOP Leader told President Obama, “I cannot stand to look at you” during negotiations on the budget shutdown. Aides to House
Last week, Congress voted to end the government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling overcoming Republican demands to delay the implementation of ObamaCare for one year. On Wednesday, just days after Democrats overcame the GOP demands, Democrat lawmakers are suggesting
