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So maybe — just maybe — the reporters at the WaPo are starting to feel just a teeny tiny bit silly. Silly enough so that maybe they need to throw Bob McDonnell a bone after running with the ridiculous thesis story? Bob McDonnell’s campaign received a call this morning from a woman who called herself [...]
Geraghty: Drag McDonnell Down, Push Deeds Ahead
Jim Geraghty over at NRO’s Campaign Spot sums up the Deeds metastrategy nicely: After the Washington Post wrote about Bob McDonnell’s thesis on page A1 on Sunday, Deeds senior advisor Mo Elleithee in a blast e-mail Sunday, wrote “Please take a few minutes to read the article and then forward it to every person you know: friends, [...]
JIM BACON IS BACK!
…and he’s serving up some premium, awesome, genuine, vintage Bacon: These three inter-related crises will define the politics and economy of Virginia and America for the next generation. Yet both candidates have framed their campaign issues in utterly conventional terms, as if there were nothing at all urgent about the times in which we find ourselves. True, [...]
Write Side: Separated at Birth?
OUCH. Still prefer the comparisons to Cooter than Mary Sue Terry.
RTD: Deeds = Cooter?
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch hits pretty hard: Veteran politicos have seen some very well-run campaigns in the commonwealth over the years, and some very poorly run campaigns. But perhaps not since Ben “Cooter” Jones tried to unseat 7th District Rep. Eric Cantor have they seen a prominent campaign as odd as that of gubernatorial candidate Creigh [...]
Inside Higher Ed: thedailynews.edu
David Scobey over at Inside Higher Ed has a modest proposal to consider. In light of the demise of the mainstream print media, Scobey has noticed the rise of college professors as experts engaging in social media, and wonders whether the academy the Ivory Tower should rally to the Fourth Estate: Even the best prof-bloggers, [...]
Charlottesville to Regulate Yard Sales?
Having solved all the other problems of civil society, the busybodies of Charlottesville have now turned to the blight upon public order that is the yard sale, as the RTD’s Bart Hinkle explains: TO THEIR credit, some members of Charlottesville’s planning commission seem skeptical about the proposal. After all, city ordinances already regulate the posting of [...]
UK Economist Poll: Obama at 48%
Details here.
Allen: Obama energy policies hurting Deeds
Former Virginia Governor George Allen points out the obvious: He called the carbon-reduction plan, which faces opposition from Republicans and at least 10 Democratic senators including Virginia’s Jim Webb, a “job killer” and an “attack on coal.” “Coal means jobs in Southwest Virginia – on our railroads, in our ports and to anybody who uses electricity,” Mr. [...]
CNS: Ted Kennedy dies at 77
RIP, Senator.