Off the rails: The Trump train goes over a cliff
Wow. Just wow. We have been following politics for a very long time (too long, perhaps), and we honestly have never seen anything quite like the insane gyrations currently rocking […]
Fighting the tide: Can Virginia’s Republicans overcome a Clinton victory?
Here’s one case study showing just how difficult it’s becoming for Virginia Republicans running local races: A recent internal poll conducted for the campaign of Democrat LuAnn Bennett, who is […]
The home stretch: Galloping toward the electoral finish line
Believe it or not, election day 2016 is now less than eight weeks away, which means that finally—after a seeming eternity of arguments, attack ads, innuendo and outrageous antics—Virginians will […]
Voting wars: The fight for the franchise heats up
There’s a basic truism in modern American politics: The more people vote, the more Democrats win. This trend began in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. […]
Trump is toast: Will the House and Senate follow?
If there’s one thing we love about penning this column, it’s making ridiculously premature predictions. And though we’ve whiffed a few (like that time we opined that Bernie Sanders would […]
Counterpunch: The Democrats convene, and Trump plays mean
We simply must begin this edition by saluting Charlottesville’s latest (and most lovable) political luminaries: Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan (a […]
Doom and gloom: Trump bets big on fear at the Republican Convention
First off, before we dive into the current parade of political lunacy, we would like to pause for one moment and express our gratitude to Donald J. Trump, who has […]
Stewart’s folly: Virginia’s top Trump plumper steps in it again
They say you can tell a great deal about a man by the company he keeps. As with almost everything else about Donald Trump, this rule of thumb does not […]
Uncorrupted: Bob McDonnell gets a free pass
Believe it or not, we were not wholly unsurprised by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating the multiple counts of corruption against former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. The main […]
Just desserts: The ongoing loss of Virginia’s congressional clout
You know, there was a time—way back in those halcyon days that we political junkies like to call “the era of basically functional government”—when Virginia had one of the most […]