Thursday, December 4th, 2008 – 04:22:39 PM
After a somewhat bumpy four year run, I’m pulling the plug on 750 Volts. This, however, is not a farewell. I’ve been more or less missing in action for a while, so it’s time to tell you why.
I’m teaming up with Aimee Fausser and Johnny Camacho to create the New Dominion Project. None of us [...]
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 – 07:16:39 PM
Delegate David Poisson (D-Sterling) is carrying HB1603 in the upcoming General Assembly session, a bill that would actually codify, into state law, a grading scale for Virginia public schools. It would be decreed that 90% and up is an A, 80% a B, and so forth, presumably to relieve students tired of the brutal 94%-and-up [...]
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 – 10:36:58 PM
With less than a year left until 2009’s legislative elections (what’s an off year?), Barack Obama’s seismic victory in Virginia leaves many House Republicans quaking in their boots.
After all, according to Dave Albo, the state’s been flooded with food stamp recipients, which are apparently Democrats. His district voted 57% to 43% for Barack Obama. Click [...]
Monday, October 27th, 2008 – 04:38:42 PM
Campaigns are won with trench warfare (commonly known as the ground game) and air support (ads and media). What’s unique about political marketing is that unlike, say, selling blenders, you can get a horde of like-minded volunteers who will give up their precious free time to talk to hostile voters for you–for free.
Unfortunately, the hopeless [...]
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 – 09:34:15 PM
Democratic Congressional candidate Judy Feder at a Joe Biden Rally in Loudoun County, Virginia
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
This is the story of a Republican district gone wrong. This is the story of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, which may very well flip to Obama next week, and could carry a Democrat to Congress.
Virginia’s [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008 – 07:14:58 PM
Earlier today, John McCain sent senior adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer on MSNBC, where she was asked about Virginia. In fit of pique, Pfotenhauer assailed Northern Virginia where John McCain’s campaign headquarters are located, and spoke of “the rest of the state, ‘real Virginia.” Given a chance to dig herself out of the hole she had [...]
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 – 05:14:51 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 8,579.19, its lowest level since May 7, 2003. That means when the Dow Jones was last at this level, I was in sixth grade. That’s me, bottom row, second from left.
Do you feel screwed now?
2003 was when I worked my first political campaign. I find it seriously [...]
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 – 08:17:49 PM
With barely days to go until the voter registration deadline for what promises to be a record-breaking year, thousands of voter registration and absentee ballot form pile up on registrar desks. However, the spike in voter registration has not been equally distributed statewide. Unsurprisingly, fast-growing localities are bursting at the seams with voter gains, and [...]
Friday, September 26th, 2008 – 06:20:15 PM
Back in July, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, not known for secular humanism, ruled that public prayers at a Fredericksburg City Council meeting was government speech, and were required to be non-denominational. After consulting with the office of Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, also not known for secular humanism, State Police Superintendent Col. Steve [...]
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 – 08:16:14 PM
The first qualification of anyone who wishes to be a member of Congress is to know where their district begins and ends. Physically.
I snickered as I was driving through a subdivision of White Oaks precinct in Burke, which is in the heart of Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, as I had spotted an orange Mark [...]
