Tag: "Election 2009"
Former GOP Delegate Candidate Disappears, Owing Thousands
John Amiral, former Republican candidate for the 87th House District in Norfolk has disappeared, reported WVEC today. Amiral has publicly disclosed his interest in pursuing another run in the 87th in 2011 against Miller once again; safe to say given the quality of his candidacy combined with this embarrassing press for our local parties, that [...]
More love for McWaters from the Virginian-Pilot and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling
Two more endorsements rolled in today for Jeff McWaters in the Virginia 8th District State Senate GOP nomination fight between him and Virginia Beach City Councilwoman Rosemary Wilson. The south Hampton Roads paper, the Virginian-Pilot, endorsed McWaters today. “McWaters can’t be expected to immediately fill the void Stolle leaves, but he’s a perceptive leader who [...]
Election Countdown: Statewide/House of Delegate Predictions/Breakdown – Part I
With Election Day rapidly approaching, the story has turned to how far down will Bob McDonnell’s momentum and coattails go? Races thought to be safe for Democrats are suddenly in play, other races thought to be a toss-up are suddenly in the safe column. As such, here’s Part I of our breakdown for the House [...]
Predictions Open-Thread
Who will win and what will be the spread in the governor’s, lieutenant governor’s, and attorney general’s election? How many seats will be gained (or lost) in the House of Delegates? Use this thread to make your predictions. Listen to the podcast to hear what Shaun, Brian and Jim predict.
VPOD 81: Michael Steele, Bob McDonnell, Barbara Comstock and Chris Stolle: Campaign Prediction Open-Thread
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, Bob McDonnell, Michael Steele, Barbara Comstock, and Chris Stolle join us for original interviews. Steele talks about the importance of Virginia to the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Not only do we talk Virginia politics, but we delve into NY-23 and New Jersey as well. McDonnell discusses [...]
2009 House of Delegate Candidate Interview Series
Audio Interviews with Rich Anderson, Kerry Bolognese, Joe Bury, Jason Call, Barbara Comstock, Michael Gage, Tag Greason, Jim Hyland, Jennifer Lee, and Chris Stolle (all of these were done EARLY in the election cycle – last April to be precise) Video John Amiral Chris Merola: Jim Hoeft interviews Chris Merola from Beehive Video on Vimeo. [...]
National Republicans seizing initiative in Virginia
Chairman Michael Steele of the Republican National Committee is making his second swing through Virginia in a week, this time, traveling with all three statewide office-seekers (Bob McDonnell, governor; Bill Bolling, lieutenant governor; and, Ken Cuccinelli, attorney general) as they barnstorm the commonwealth one final time to seal the deal with Virginia voters. On Tuesday, [...]
Deeds advisers have a conference call
Joe and Mo had another conference call for reporters and bloggers today at 3 p.m. to espouse the state of the campaign. While I can’t attend (not that they’d give me the dial-in information anyway – yes, I have asked before), I thought it might be fun to play the “What will they say” game. [...]
Vote for the Berry winners
Based upon your nominations, here are the nominees for the 2009 Bearing Drift Web 2.0 Awards – The Berrys. Voting ends on Halloween. Best Video: Online Surveys & Market Research Best blog: Online Surveys & Market Research Roanoke Valley Republicans VA GOP Caucus Best Social Network: Online Surveys & Market Research Ken Cuccinelli (Twitter and Facebook) Tag Greason RPV Network Best [...]
Making Sense Of The Latest Dollars In The Race For Governor
Republican nominee Bob McDonnell out raised Democrat Creigh Deeds 4 to 3 in the first three weeks of October. Most of McDonnell’s $4,019,760 was thanks in a large part to in-kind contributions from the US Chamber of Commerce of nearly $1 million and RPV. Of McDonnell’s $1.8 million cash raised from 4171 donations, no contributions [...]
Last day for “Berry” nominations
If you have not submitted a campaign, committee, or organization for Bearing Drift’s first annual best use of web 2.0 award, “The Berry”, today is the last day to do so! Nominate today! Voting will begin later this evening.
Last-minute decision making? Check out Project Virginia.
Still trying to find information about a specific campaign? Check out Project Virginia’s Campaign Resources page. They’ve consolidated a ton of disparate information into a one-stop shop for the discriminating voter. Of course, you should also do a search of the Bearing Drift archives…but I digress.
VPOD 80: Jim Geraghty, NRO
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, we take a quick look back at the biggest news of the week in politics, including the debates between the LG candidates and the gubernatorial candidates, what Sen. Creigh Deeds thinks about a federal public option in health care, the closing of the International Paper Mill in Franklin, [...]
Debate: Deeds Opposes Public Option; Immediately Denies Saying It
Deeds argued with himself again tonight; view the following exchanges in regards to the public option. Aftermath below… Public Option isn’t Required! No, I Didn’t Say That! Creigh Deeds disastrous campaign took another potentially fatal blow tonight in the final gubernatorial debate, with the following exchange: Question: “Mr. Deeds, and would you go against some [...]
McDonnell up 8 in Clarus poll
Lowell Feld is despondent, but relays the “good parts” from a Clarus Press Release. According to Clarus, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell has an 8-point lead over Democratic opponent Creigh Deeds, 49-41 percent with 10 percent undecided. “So far in the general election, Deeds has failed to gain sustained momentum,” said Ron Faucheux, president of [...]
WaPo: Our Endorsement Meaningless, Still Won’t Help Deeds
From the Fix, who I grudgingly respect: …Sunday, the Post endorsed Deeds over McDonnell — raising the question of whether the endorsement can be deja vu all over again for the Democrat. The answer? Probably not. .. Could the Post endorsement have some impact on bringing some wayward northern Virginia Democrats (and even some independents) [...]
VPOD 79: McCain, McDonnell and Murtaugh
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, Tim Murtaugh, Communications Director of the Republican Party of Vriginia, gives us his analysis on the 2009 campaign and what to expect these last two weeks. We also hear from John McCain and Bob McDonnell who appeared together in Virginia Beach and tune in on the press conference [...]
Cantor’s Republican Roundup
Glad to be in Richmond (Innsbrook specifically) at Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s “Republican Roundup.” It is pretty chilly as the event gets started, but spirits are high amongst the supporters here who have joined for music (provided by “Royal Blue Band” – who absolutely rock), games, food and some speechifying. Check here over the next [...]
UPDATED: Financial Filings Due Today
All races this November have filings due by 5pm today. VPAP will have sortable lists available by 6pm tonight and Bearing Drift will have numbers and thoughts later tonight as well. 2:21pm UPDATE: The Washington Post is already reporting some numbers. In the race for LG, Democrat Jody Wagner is reporting $465,000 raised from 503 [...]
Democrats excited about their House of Delegate prospects?
A friend sent me a link from the national Democratic National Legislative Campaign Committee. You would think with three weeks to go in a campaign that sees all 100 seats up for election in the House of Delegates – a legislative house the Democrats were eager earlier this year about gaining the majority – there [...]
Mathieson attacks “distort” Villanueva’s record says Beach Council
We mentioned back over Labor Day weekend that Del. Bobby Mathieson (who stood idly by while Del. Joe Bouchard played the race card) began a negative attack on City Councilman Ron Villanueva regarding his attendance at city council sessions. Today, in the Letters to the Editor section of the Virginian-Pilot, the Virginia Beach City Council [...]
Two-way race in the 100th
It’s now head-to-head on the Eastern Shore between Del. Lynwood Lewis (D-100) and Ms. Melody Scalley, the Republican. At a debate sponsored by the Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore, John Smith, a third party candidate, took the opportunity to lambaste Lewis and throw his complete support behind Scalley. In an already close election, this [...]
Joe Bouchard goes overboard with negative ads
Del. Joe Bouchard, Director of Government Sales for Cox Communications (nice job for a legislator, huh? Hey Virginian-Pilot! While picking on Tommy Norment for teaching classes, why not look at these Democrat jobs in YOUR OWN READERSHIP AREA). I wonder what governments Del. Bouchard sells to, and what his position on the FINANCE committee (where [...]
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