It's 50 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny in Wisconsin, according to the local forecast. The cold days are almost done and so, too, is the Republican primary. In the week leading up to Tuesday's nominating contest in Wisconsin, one of the few standing between Mitt Romney and iron-clad inevitability, GOP leaders rallied to the former governor's banners. Romney finally has the party at his back. But that support also puts a new kind of burden on his shoulders.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a potential Republican vice presidential nominee and booster of Mitt Romney, greeted President Obama on a airport tarmac Friday with a golf glove in hand. “I thought that it would be an appropriate gift,” McDonnell told reporters after the encounter. “He was very impressed that I knew he was wore a [...]
How much confidence does the lead filer of the lawsuit against the individual mandate have that it will prevail? Virginia, whose attorney general and governor are leading the charge, at the same time is taking definitive steps to make sure that federal health reform is implemented effectively within it’s borders. Yesterday, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced [...]
UPDATED. See additions after the jump. Having grown up in the Commonwealth, I’m no stranger to the tensions that inevitably lie at the intersection of Southern history and Southern politics. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Virginia had a very awkward thing called Lee-Jackson-King Day. Believe it or not, the government decided it would be [...]
Voting has begun in Virginia and Democrat Creigh Deeds enters today a severe underdog – trailing by 13.4 percentage points, according to the latest realclearpolitics average of Virginia polls. While much has been made of the GOP divisions in the NY23rd race, Virginia is shaping up to be their best hope for a recipe for [...]
