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Arianna On The Problems Posed By Tea Party Activists In 2010 Elections (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 12.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Virginia, Independents, Midterm Elections, Tea Partiers, Tim Kaine, 2010 Elections, Economy, Dnc, New Jersey, Democrats, Tea Party, Republicans, Media News

Democratic National Committee Chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine recently weighed in on the Tea Party movement, saying that Democrats stand to gain fro...

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Virginia Tech Shooting Report: University Staff Warned Their Families Before Campus

AP | TOM BREEN and ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Virginia Techs, Virginia, Emily Hilscher, Virginia Tech Report, Shooting, Tim Kaine, Seung-Hui Cho Report, Report, Timothy Kaine, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech Shooting, Charles Steger, Seung-Hui Cho, Home News

BLACKSBURG, Va. — At least two Virginia Tech administrators told family members about a double shooting in a dorm – the prelude to the dea...

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The Richest Counties In America (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Census Bureau, Poverty, Loudon County, Marin County, Slidepoll, Mortgage Crisis, Wealthy Americans, Williamson County Tennessee, Virginia, Richest Counties in America, Fairfax County, Median Income, Luxury Real Estate, Beltway Bubble, Business News

By now it's become obvious that the wealthy aren't immune to the recession. In October, The Wall Street Journal reported foreclosures were growing in...

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Where Should You Talk (and Listen) to an Independent? Online, of Course

Noah Mallin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Virginia, Bob Mcdonnell, New Jersey, Property Tax, United States, Facebook, Barack Obama, Society and Culture, Politics, Barack Obama Presidential Campaign 2008, Google, Technology News

Why not reach Independents at a place where most people turn to when they are seeking more information? That is, online, through search engines.

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An Execution and What Remains

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: John Allen Muhammad Execution, Arlington Virginia, D.C. Sniper, Death Penalty, Virginia, Execution, John Muhammad, Living News

You had to live in the DC area that horrible month to know the impact the Sniper had on us. Fear was a constant companion.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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The Night They Brought Old Dixie Back

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Politics, President Barack Obama, Obama Mississippi, Breaking Politics News, Obama Virginia, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.

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Obama Referenda

David Parker | Posted 11.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Virginia, Politics, Elections, United States, New Jersey, Barack Obama, Comedy, Virginia Governors Race, New Jersey Governor Race, Comedy News

Any time an American does anything at all, it is a demonstration of his or her support for, or opposition to, the President and his policies. Paying attention, Russia? That's how democracy works.

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The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House

David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: State Government, Virginia, Texas, Unemployment, Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Unemployment Extension, Business News

Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.

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Lessons of November

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Election Reaction, Conservatives, New Jersey, Liberals, Middle Class, Wage Gap, Gay Marriage, Maine, Politics News

I believe that hordes of voters went yesterday and voted for Republican candidates and discriminatory marriage platforms even though they voted for and like Obama. I also believe they are expressing an anger that liberal and conservative pundits alike do not understand.

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Christie, McDonnell Got Fewer Votes Than McCain

Bill Scher | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hoffman, Virginia, Christie, Yes on 1, Mccain, Obama, Mcdonnell, New Jersey, Election, Maine, Politics News

In 2008, Sen. John McCain lost the presidential race in NJ after garnering 1,613,207 votes. In 2009, Chris Christie won the governor's race with 1,140...

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Sifting Through the Economic Messages From the Elections Last Night

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Virginia, New Jersey, 2009 Elections, Economy, Business News

It is the fundamental failure to make the economy the central issue of this Presidency that has left the door open for the Republicans. It is also a door that it easily closed next year by the President and his team.

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Last Night's Lesson: It Ain't Rocket Science

Dave Zirin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Muhammad Ali, Virginia, Obama, Maine, Politics News

This is not rocket science. Throughout the country, Republican turnout stayed the same as in 2008 while Democratic turnout cratered. That's what happens when you don't deliver the goods.

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The Wrath of Suburbanites and Independents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.

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The Obama Referendum: Nothing to See Here

Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Politics, Progressives, Bob Mcdonnell, Obama, Job Corzine, Bill Owens, Creigh Deeds, Same-Sex Marriage, Maine, Politics News

Yesterday's vote on same-sex marriage in Maine was a referendum on our collective humanity, and we don't look so great today. But was it a loss for Obama? Certainly not.

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The Power of Fear and the Obligation to Hope

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.

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Virginia Governor's Race 2009: McDonnell Beats Deeds

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political co...

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Republicans Will Sweep on Election Day: How They Will Do It and What It Means

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Gop, Bob Mcdonnell, Chris Christie, President Obama, Creigh Deeds, Politics News

To lose badly in Virginia says more than Mr. Deeds was not a good candidate. It says that the president does not have any coat tails, at least not today.

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What Happened in Virginia?

Ben Tribbett | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Virginia Governors Race, Bob Mcdonnell, Democrats, 2009 Elections, Creigh Deeds, Republicans, Politics News

If this election serves as a reminder that pandering to right wingers is not a successful electoral strategy -- then Deeds will have done even more good for Democrats than if he had won today.

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Today's Alleged "Bellwether" Elections Aren't Bellwethers and Don't Say Much About Nat'l Politics

David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jon Corzine, Virginia, New Jersey, Election Day 2009, Election Day, 2009 Elections, Politics News

While the Democratic Party certainly has its problems right now, these contests do a better job of illustrating severe Republican weakness than anything else.

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Election Night Preview: GDP Trumps Gay Marriage

Joe Scarborough | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Bob Mcdonnell, Joe Scarborough, Jon Corzine, Chris Christie, New Jersey, Doug Hoffman, Morning Joe, Politics News

All the president's men know that a Republican sweep in New Jersey and Virginia will strike fear in the hearts of those swing state Democrats who now hold the future of health care in their sweaty moderate hands.

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How Important Are These Off-Year Races?

New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Mcdonnell, 2010 Elections, Corzine, 2010 Election, Christie, John Corzine, Obama, Incumbent, Creigh Deeds, Approval Ratings, Virginia, Rnc, White House, New Jersey, Governors Races, Analysis, Bill Owens, Incumbents, Chris Christie, Third Party Candidates, Doug Hoffman, Scozzafava, Dede Scozzafava, 2009 Elections, Elections, Governors Race, Independents, Mid-Term Elections, Gubernatorial, Dnc, Deeds, Politics News

At the very least, the results in the governors' races, if not predictive, are quite likely to drive the political narrative, bolstering or diminishin...

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Rove's Misread of Tuesday's Elections

Joe Trippi | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Virginia, Karl Rove, New Jersey, Democratic Party, Republican Party, 2010 Elections, New York, New York News

Voters are increasingly seeing themselves as "us" and both parties in Washington as "them." The results next Tuesday will likely demonstrate the voter's frustration with those in power, regardless of party.

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Political Espionage in Virginia: A Facebook Funny or Critical Breach?

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia Democrats, Creigh Deeds, Delegate Todd Gilbert, Virginia, Virginia Governors Race, John Lesinski, Virginia Republicans, Todd Gilbert, Virginia Delegates Race, Virginia GOP, Nevada-Caucuses-Voter-Suppression, Politics News

While the idea of a candidate bragging on his Facebook page about his unethical escapades is a little funny at first (ok, it's hilarious), there may be more serious implications.

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Independent Voters Shifting Away From Obama, Democrats

RealClearPolitics | Salena Zito | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

A poll of opinion polls shows Americans' attitudes are changing rapidly. They are less and less thrilled about the country's direction and Congress, ...

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