Elections have consequences. Today, I'm pretty upset with both parties. A big fail for not doing more to make the elections in Virginia more competitive. Only seven of the 26 contested Senate races were decided by 10 points or less. I haven't pulled the numbers on the House side, but my guess is it is … Continue reading Not happy
In case you missed them, videos of the candidate forums hosted by the local League of Women Voters are below. Take the time to review. And don't forget to vote Tuesday.
I have to say that the race in the 64th House of Delegates district isn't one that I've been watching closely. But then I ran across this article and it made me curious about the challenger in the race. I was aware, from their endorsements Sunday, that he had not met with The Virginian-Pilot editorial … Continue reading Mr. Phantom
The Virginia Peninsula MAL League of Women Voters in conjunction with The Daily Press hosted a forum on October 28 for the candidates in the 2nd Senate district.
With its endorsement today of Mickey Chohany in the 1st Senate district, The Virginian-Pilot editorial board is done for this cycle, the result being that I was correct with five of my seven predictions. I won't make any excuses for being wrong in the 1st except to say that my predictions were done prior to … Continue reading Pilot predictions final tally: 5 of 7
With the endorsement today of Curtis Edmonds for Portsmouth City Council, I'm 5 out of 6 in my predictions.Not too shabby 😉 ~ Just a reminder to email subscribers: if you are receiving a daily email and cannot tell who the author of each post is, please sign up for the newer email service, which … Continue reading Pilot predictions: 5 of 6
Yesterday was the filing deadline for campaign finance disclosure reports for candidates on the ballot in November. The data below covers the period October 1 to October 26 and was taken from the Virginia Public Access Project, better known as VPAP. As of this writing, the information on VPAP is just the raw data from … Continue reading 10/31/11 financial reports – local races
The elections are about one week away. Steve Vaughn posted his "Ten things that are plucking my last nerve", his thoughts on the irritating things of this election season. I thought I would add to that my list of irritating things about debates. First, if you are a candidate and have agreed to do a debate … Continue reading My pet peeves about debates from this election season
The Virginian-Pilot rolled out its House and Senate endorsements Sunday and its Virginia Beach endorsement today. Of the General Assembly races in which they endorsed, I correctly predicted all four: incumbent senators Locke and Northam and incumbent delegates Villanueva and Barlow. Incumbency is very difficult to overcome, particularly at this level. The paper did not … Continue reading Pilot predictions: 4 of 5 (or is that 6?)
The Virginia Peninsula MAL League of Women Voters in conjunction with The Daily Press hosted a forum on October 21 for the candidates in the 94th House of Delegates district.
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