This is the first part of Blue Commonwealth founder Josh Chernilla’s interview with Gov. Tim Kaine.

After John McCain denounced Jeff Frederick comparing the 44th President of the United States to Osama Bin Laden, Frederick refused to apologize and has, in fact, repeatedly stood by those statements.
Last night, the Republican Party of Virginia decided that Jeff Frederick should remain Chairman.
What else needs to be said about the state of the GOP? […]

Cross-Posted at Blue Commonwealth
The final numbers are still coming in from the 2008 presidential election. Barack Obama is at 69.4 million votes and counting….70 million looks like a very strong possibility. Also, Obama’s margin of victory in the popular vote is at 7.2%. I heard Peggy Noonan on some talk show the other day saying that Obama “only […]

Nylund from Ballon Juice on the possibility that Hillary Clinton may be constitutionally ineligible for the Secretary of State position:
Obama could simply declare Hillary to be an enemy combatant.

Our long national local nightmare is over.
The recent announcement from Lowell Feld that RaisingKaine would be closing it’s cyber-doors at year’s end came as a shock to a lot of people. There are some outstanding state political blogs out there, Burnt Orange Report in Texas and My Left Nutmeg in Connecticut come to mind. But I really […]

This is from a group called, Wal-Mart Watch.
I guess some is watching Wal-Mart after all.

Virginia Republicans have started a new social network called, fittingly, RPV Network. h/t NLS
It looks like a lot of fun… just ask Nancy Pratt here. This is the picture she chose for her RPV Network profile. Nancy, PLEASE, stop reading the headlines.
      

Wednesday night at 7pm, the three candidates for Commonwealth’s Attorney will participate in a forum at the Fredericksburg City Hall chambers. LaBrivia Jenkins, “Jeh” Hicks, and Eric Olsen will meet in their one and only debate before the special election on December 16 to replace former Fredericksburg Commwealth’s Attorney Charles Sharp. Click here for more info.
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President-elect Obama has taken questions from the media on five seperate occasions since winning the presidential election and, as Media Bistro points out, he has yet to take a single question from anyone at Fox News. ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, etc. have all spoken to Obama at various press conferences over the past four weeks.
There’s nothing […]