Stephen Spiker
Stephen Spiker is a pollster and a veteran Northern Virginia political operative. He is the 10th District Young Republican representative and former chair of the Prince William YRs. Spiker graduated from George Mason University and lives outside Manassas with his wife and three sons.
Winsome Sears Is An Immigrant Success Story. Ken Cuccinelli and Donald Trump Would’ve Kept Her Out.
Winsome Sears and her father, with $1.75 to their name, are exactly the type of immigrants that Trump and Cuccinelli worked so hard to keep out of the U.S.
Youngkin Has a Promising Tax Plan – Will He Be Able Run on It?
Youngkin shows tremendous potential with his tax plan – as a policy-minded executive and as a traditional Republican – but will the politics of the high-wire act of running as a Republican in a blue state allow him to actually run on it?
August Polling Round-up & Observations
A poll-by-poll walkthrough of the 7 results released in August
Winners & Losers from the GOP Convention
With the nomination for Governor set, it’s time to take a quick stock of winners and losers during this process.
Pet Peeve: Why Are Republicans So Bad at Chart Proportions?
How distracting is it when bar chart proportions are completely out of whack? Very.
How Have Other State GOPs Run Conventions in a Pandemic?
We are the only state where this happens. Why do we put up with it?
Virginia Has Been ‘Fatigued’ by Conventions for Years
Rich Anderson may be “fatigued” now, but the rest of us have been fatigued for a while, given the last four years that have punctuated the ridiculous corruption and farce that comes with conventions
A List of Ways Rob Wittman Could Have Aired Concerns About the 2020 Election
A list of methods for airing concerns about the election that don’t involve trying to overturn the election.
Somehow This Needs To Be Said: Declaring Martial Law is Not Conservative
Anyone who advocates for martial law is diametrically opposed to civil rights and Constitutional rights, including and especially the 2nd Amendment.
A Case Study of Why Criminal Justice Reform is Impossible
Punishing assaults that result in no harm as misdemeanors than with mandatory minumums an obvious step for criminal justice reform, but it’s easier to lie than correct the wrongs of overcriminalization.
