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If Virginia is a battleground in the presidential race, there are a handful of strategic battlefields that will decide whether the Old Dominion favors Republican Mitt Romney or Democratic President Barack Obama this fall.
The Senate will take a key procedural vote on a gender pay equity bill when it returns from recess next month, and the Virginians battling to join the chamber in 2013 are squabbling over the measure. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has made clear he supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is designed to update the 1963 Equal Pay Act. Fellow former governor George Allen, the likely Republican nominee in ...
Dr. Afridi helped the U.S. pin down the location of Bin Laden before he was killed last year, by collecting the terrorist leader's DNA.
The McDonnell administration postponed the release of the proposed permanent regulations for abortion clinics in the state -- regulations that are expected to be similar to the controversial emergency regulation... Photo Credit: NBCWashington.com
Surveys in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia offer a snapshot of voters' sentiments in the presidential and Senate races.
Former U.S. Rep. William Wampler Sr., a Republican who represented Southwest Virginia in Congress for 17 years, died Wednesday night at his home in Bristol. He was 86 and had been in declining health for at least six months, said Del. Terry G. Kilgore (R-Scott), a family friend. Read full article >>
The four Republicans running in Virginia's U.S. Senate race are preparing for their final debate before their June 12 primary.
More and more, the 2012 presidential election is looking like it will be very, very close . While national polling has borne this out for weeks now, perhaps more telling are new polls in a trio of major swing states that could well decide the election — Florida, Ohio and Virginia. Read full article >>
Fueled by women and independents, President Barack Obama holds a four-point lead over Mitt Romney in Virginia, according to the latest NBC News-Marist poll. Photo Credit: AP
“He was the last of the old-time political figures,” longtime employee Jim Mullins of Bristol recalled Thursday. “He always wanted to talk to constituents. Several times, we’d go to Grundy for an open-door [meeting] and there would be 150 or 200 people there. He wanted to talk to each and every one of them and try to help them with their problems.”
Former Rep. William Creed Wampler, a moderate Republican who turned Virginia's 9th district red after 22 years of Democratic control, died Wednesday night after a long illness, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He was 86.
Mitt Romney will continue to push his education agenda with a visit to a charter school in Philadelphia on Thursday after announcing his support for vouchers and naming his education policy advisers earlier this week. Read full article >>
(CNN) – Call it coast to coast fundraising. While President Barack Obama raises campaign cash for his re-election bid at an event Thursday morning in California, Vice President Joe Biden does the same in the battleground state of North Carolina. – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker The vice president will be the main attraction [...]
(CNN) - President Barack Obama continues a west coast fund-raising swing, and then travels to Iowa, Thursday, while Mitt Romney holds a campaign event in Philadelphia before heading to Boston to meetings and private finance events. Also on the trail Thursday: Vice President Joe Biden, who will hold a fund-raiser for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate [...]
(CNN) – New polls released Thursday show Democrats ahead of Republicans in three big Senate races, all of which take place in crucial presidential election battleground states. Starting with Ohio, incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown enjoys a 14-point lead over Republican challenger and state treasurer Josh Mandel. According to the NBC-Marist survey, 51% of registered [...]
Wife of former Virginia senator decries ‘Obamacare,’ voices support for offshore drilling
