If you registered online for The Family Foundation Gala between Wednesday, September 16, and Friday, September 25, and did not receive a confirmation e-mail, your transaction most likely did not complete. Please call The Family Foundation at (804) 343-0010 to speak … Read more>

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Overdrive And Life

We’re in statewide overdrive, with all three races for statewide office (as expected) going full bore. The week that ended so badly for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds got worse over the weekend as … Read more>

It seems the news has been all about endorsements lately. Some are predictable, some not. Those organizations not deemed partisan carry a particular weight, which is where the Fraternal Order of Police fit. Most voters have a positive perception of … Read more>

The Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce officially endorsed Bob McDonnell today giving the Republican candidate for governor the endorsements of the business communities of the two most traffic congested regions of Virginia. Jim Nolan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has it here. Along … Read more>

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The Non-Endorsement Edition

The news is just as Doug Wilder likes it — about him. It’s practically sucked out the news cycle any mention of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce endorsement of Bob McDonnell and the … Read more>

In what must be one of the most devastating one-two combinations this side of Mike Tyson in his prime, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds was on the receiving end of former Governor (and Democrat) Doug Wilder’s non-endorsement yesterday (in large part because … Read more>

Not to pat ourselves on the back, but we’re not bad. Pretty good, in fact. Yesterday, in our almost daily Virginia News Stand we commented that the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce and Fraternal Order of Police endorsements, as well as … Read more>

As we’ve been researching the legislative voting records of Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds in preparation for media interviews, we came across something rather interesting. In 1998, then Delegate Deeds voted in favor of HB 1154, a ban on partial … Read more>

According to a Washington Post article today, analyzing the internal demogrpahics and responses to issues in its recent poll on the gubernatorial campaign:

More than six in 10 women ages 18 to 44 said they think abortion should be

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As The Day Turned: Chamber, FOP, Wilder

This morning started out with major news for Republican candidate for Governor Bob McDonnell, with the very non-partisan Fairfax Chamber of Commerce endorsing him. (Where’s the Washington Post article?) This same … Read more>