No, Virginia, This Is Not A "Macaca Moment"
Lots of people think that Bob McDonnell's college thesis "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family" may prove to be his undoing. And lots of those people seem to be working for the Washington Post.
Lots of people think that Bob McDonnell's college thesis "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family" may prove to be his undoing. And lots of those people seem to be working for the Washington Post.
The Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Public Policy Polling releases a fascinating survey of the Virginia electorate, one that gives former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), defeated in a razor-t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
So, Rush Limbaugh is hopping mad about Sonia Sotomayor! I know, I know, dog bites man and all, but he's got some specific grievances. Seems that Sot...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Via Wonkette comes the news that former Virginia senator and mutterer of racist exotica George Allen is going to be writing a book, and that book is g...
William Bradley | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Whitman, pushing policies that resonate on the far right of American politics even as some doubt her sincerity, has her work cut out for her in winning the governorship of blue state California.
Washington Independent | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) has been out of the public eye for two years, and I'd forgotten how he can reduce everything to a football metaphor....
Katie Halper | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
These two Southerners share a striking resemblance and a gift for race-based humor. But could they also share genes? Or alleles, at the very least?
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Jim Webb, Democratic Senator from Virginia, has made a huge difference in the Senate. As the 51st Democrat in the Senate, he swung the majority two y...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
The once capital of the Confederacy, a state that has not voted for a Democratic president since 1964, is now an official "swing state," leaning for Obama, but still in the cross-hairs of the McCain campaign.
Washington Post | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
Northern Virginia Republicans, realizing they need to improve their appeal among the region's large ethnic population, will stage a "unity" rally Satu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Presented without comment, here's former Virginia Senator and one-time Presidential aspirant George Allen on today's Laura Ingraham show: ALLEN: I lo...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...
Dan Manatt | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Just two years ago, the modern age of YouTube/Web Video Politics began: On 8.11.06, Sen. George Allen, a shoo in for reelection and early favorite fo...
Dave Winer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
There's too much control of the political process by the press, and that's too easily manipulated by the candidates. We'll see that play out in the fall as press favorites, Obama and McCain, compete.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home
In the year of the Clinton candidacy, asking Democrats to vote for a vice presidential candidate who snickered about calling the Naval Academy "a horny woman's dream" is just rubbing salt in the wounds.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday was designed to shore up conservative voters, his most vulnerabl...
AP | BOB LEWIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
George Allen, a former U.S. senator and governor of Virginia, will not run to lead the state again in 2009, he said Tuesday. Allen made his plans pub...
NY Times | Susan Saulny | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Where does a candidate go to find "wise counsel and invaluable experience" for his campaign? Fred Thompson has turned to his mentor, to the vice-presi...
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Fred Thompson's campaign will announce this morning their "National Campaign Leadership Team." Among the four chairs -- former Sen. George Allen (Va....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics