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McDonnell overcame challenge to win Va. governor race

But an urgent memo awaited from his senior advisers in Richmond, and the RV was too bumpy for McDonnell to read on the road. A 20-year-old academic thesis -- in which McDonnell had presented a deeply conservative vision of government and criticized ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Creigh Deeds,  Pat Robertson,  Washington Post Company,  Ed Gillespie

In Northern Virginia, strategy proves critical

McDonnell avoided discussion of divisive social issues such as abortion and gay rights, crafting his campaign around particular concerns raised by voters from Alexandria to Aldie. He reached out to minority communities and drilled so deeply into local ...

From SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR AND AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Creigh Deeds,  Tom Davis

Can McDonnell, Va. GOP keep straddling the center-right?

If McDonnell is able to please both sides, he will help rebrand Republicans as a can-do party that understands how people live, much as U.S. Sen. Mark Warner did for Democrats when he was governor earlier this decade. But if he fails, the rift between ...

From AMY GARDNER AND SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mark Warner,  Tom Davis,  Pat Robertson

Polls open in Virginia for state, local elections

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From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Virginia,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Creigh Deeds,  Robert F McDonnell

Rivals launch last-minute push

Thousands of campaign staffers and volunteers fan out across the state, knocking on doors and making phone calls to urge that voters go to the polls Tuesday and cast a ballot for Republican Robert F. McDonnell or Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the closely ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Virginia,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Robert F McDonnell,  Creigh Deeds

Shannon ratchets up efforts to paint Cuccinelli as extremist

Stephen C. Shannon , the Democratic candidate for attorney general in Virginia, stepped up his effort to paint Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli II as an extremist Wednesday, accusing him of planning to discriminate against gay men and lesbians who ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Virginian-Pilot,  U.S. Republican Party,  Robert F McDonnell,  Ken Cuccinelli,  Bob McDonnell

Republicans have shot at boosting numbers in Va. House

For much of this decade, Virginia Democrats have wondered every two years not whether they would increase their numbers in the House of Delegates but by how many seats. Many Democrats hoped this could be the year that they finally won the six seats they ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Robert F McDonnell,  Creigh Deeds,  George W. Bush

Bill Clinton, McAuliffe campaign as friends of Deeds

Former president Bill Clinton dropped into Virginia on Tuesday to fire up the troops for Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, who is trying to catch Republican Robert F. McDonnell in the race for governor with Election Day just two weeks away. This Story Deeds ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Creigh Deeds,  Terry McAuliffe,  Robert F McDonnell,  U.S. Democratic Party

Friends and foes note Cuccinelli's ability to connect

Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a state senator from Fairfax County, hopes to be an entirely different attorney general than what Virginians have grown accustomed to. In addition to talking up gang prevention, Internet crimes and sex offenses ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Deeds, McDonnell Tout Transportation Plans, Face Roadblocks

Both have proposed tackling the state's growing list of road and transit needs in ways that have largely been tried before and would again be difficult, if not impossible, to push through the General Assembly: a potential tax increase in Deeds's case; ...

From AMY GARDNER, The Washington Post,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Richard L. Saslaw

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