Update (10:15 p.m.): What’s MSM saying?
Virginian-Pilot
Washington Post
Daily Press
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Video Highlights from The Roanoke Times
Opening Statements
Energy Policy
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Update (5:12 p.m.): Here’s what the Warner campaign is saying.
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Initial post (1:30 p.m.): The Daily Press’ Shad Plank is reporting that the debate today was a wash, with the primary disagreement being over energy policy and personal credibility.
One item of note from the Shad Plank post demonstrates exactly why, well, blogging exists…and not by MSM:
“And you can read Sunday’s Daily Press for more details.”
Those of us that are junkies want the details now!
Update (2:30 p.m.): First report from The News Leader. Again, the report says that energy was the dominant issue. The report showed Warner’s new-found support to lift the moratorium on off-shore drilling, but showed Warner’s tough position at appeasing his left by calling offshore drilling a “gimmick.”
And, the AP reports virtually the same thing, with this nugget about the tone of the debate….
Gilmore, trailing significantly in both polls and fundraising and badly needing a break, attacked Warner’s veracity pointedly and often.
As far as I know, the only blogger at the debate was SWAC Girl. Hopefully she will post her thoughts later today.
Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. 
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Warner used the same “one trick pony” line he used when he criticized Mark Earley for saying Warner would raise taxes?
Check the video http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/18/mark-warner-and-his-promises/#comments
Why would he remind everyone about that?
Bob Marshall would have won this debate.
Now, Virginians have the repugnant choice between the Neocon domestic spying agenda advocate, Gilmore, or the phony moderate who really represents the return to the worship of all things politically correct, including speech zones and banned words, Warner.
So, Mark Warner, who vetoed lifting the offshore moratorium, is now running around championing it?
I’m sorry, but how the heck is anyone supposed to know if he means it now?
JR:
You’re nailing it the press, will be giving us the details.. I’ve put up my first post, and am now reading what’s on the web/MSM, etc.
I was at the debate, and this is my first impression.
http://www.spankthatdonkey.com/spankthatdonkey2/2008/7/19/gilmore-warner-debate-now-i-know-what-bill-bolling.html
Gilmore was on message big time, and Warner’s complexion went red early…
Warner is dead wrong on the unemployment benefits for the Southside bill. Why the Republicans bottled it up in the General Assembly is that it would have created an increased level of benefits for residents in one area of the state, while most Virginia residents would have had to make do with a lower level of benefit.
Mark Warner thinks he can justify THAT?!?
Here’s the one big thing that jumped out at me about this otherwise boring debate.
http://roanokevalleyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/07/mark-warner-hates-barack-obama-and-all.html
Jim Gilmore coundn’t run a state without bankrupting it, what the heck is he going to with a country George Busch has already Broke.