Local computer geek Waldo Jacquith has many tricks up his sleeve when it comes to showing Charlottesville the ropes of the Internet (ah, the joys of mixed metaphors). Seeing as I was stuck at work in New York as the primaries were unfolding in Virginia, I relied on one of those tricks—Waldo’s Virginia Political Blogroll—to keep me updated on what was happening at the polls in my beloved home state. Anyone familiar with Waldo’s other blogroll (www.cvilleblogs.com) will immediately recognize the format here: headlines from different sources all over the state that give a reader an overview of all the news that’s fit to print apropos Virginia politics.
Taking posts from sources ranging from The Mason Conservative to The Richmond Democrat to The Virginian Federalist to Consortiumblog, the many—and contradictory—voices that are Virginia politics come through, and by scrolling ’em you can maybe begin to try to understand what is going down on days like February 12. Of course, being a Hillary supporter, I can’t say I was happy to see what was going down in Virginia on February 12, but I was happy that I knew where to find what I was looking for.
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