George Allen

Jason Linkins

No, Virginia, This Is Not A "Macaca Moment"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


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.

George Allen Could Make Comeback In Virginia: Poll

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...

Jason Linkins

Limbaugh: Sotomayor's 'Wise Latina' Comment Worse Than George Allen's 'Macaca'

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...

Jason Linkins

George Allen To Pen Treatise On "The Triumph Of Character"

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...

Whitman's Sampler: The Ex-eBay CEO's Moves Mirror the Republican Crisis

William Bradley | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

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.

George Allen Tries To Sell GOP To Minorities: 'In Sports, You Don't Care About Race'

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....

Saltsman and Allen: Separated at Birth?

Katie Halper | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Katie Halper

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?

Obama Enjoys Boost in Va. From Influential Sen. Webb

Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home


Lisa Solod Warren

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...

Battleground Virginia: Insight into the Real Virginia Vote

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media


Joel B. Schwartzberg

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.

George "Macaca" Allen To Lead GOP Rally For Minorities

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...

Jason Linkins

George Allen Says Americans Are Not Addicted To Oil

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...

John McCain as a Hood Ornament

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics


Bella DePaulo

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...

Happy Macaca Day!!! The 2nd Anniversary of the Birth of YouTube Politics

Dan Manatt | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics


Dan Manatt

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...

Bill Clinton's "Macaca" Moment

Dave Winer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media


Dave Winer

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.

Jim Webb's Baggage

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home


Nathaniel Bach

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.

Sam Stein

DeLay Not Impressed By McCain, At All

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...

George "Macaca" Allen Rules Out Run For Virginia Governor In 2009

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...

Fred Thompson's New Top Advisors: Elizabeth Cheney, George Allen

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...

Fmr Sen George Allen To Officially Join Thompson's Campaign Team

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....