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 9:46 AM, Apr 19, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERDemocratic senator Jim Webb, who is retiring after the election, said yesterday morning that Obamacare "cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader." The Washington Post reports:
President Obama’s new health-care law will be his greatest liability as he attempts to once again win the critical swing state of Virginia, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) warned Wednesday.
“I’ll be real frank here,” Webb said at a breakfast organized by Bloomberg News. “I think that the manner in which the health-care reform issue was put in front of the Congress, the way that the issue was dealt with by the White House, cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader.”
Webb voted for the law, but also for more than a dozen GOP-offered amendments to it.
“If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set of objectives from the White House,” added Webb, who opted not to run for a second term this year. “...It should have been done with better direction from the White House.”
7:48 AM, Mar 18, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONThe latest Rasmussen poll of likely general election voters in the “core four” swing states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina shows Rick Santorum leading President Obama by 4 percentage points (48 to 44 percent), while Mitt Romney trails Obama by 4 points (46 to 42 percent) — an 8-point swing.
Read more... 7:36 AM, Jan 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERMitt Romney's campaign just announced the endorsement of Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. “As I have said throughout this primary process, we need a governor to serve as our next president,” McDonnell said in a prepared statement mailed out by the campaign.
Read more... 10:38 AM, Dec 30, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLThe Virginia Republican Party is apparently planning to require voters in the March 6 Virginia GOP presidential primary to sign a form that says, “I, the undersigned, pledge that I intend to support the nominee of the Republican Party for president.”
Read more... But he says he did not want to comment on state's health insurance mandate initiative.1:15 PM, Oct 26, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENSpeaking in Virginia this morning, Mitt Romney tried to clarify what he called “confusion” over his comments yesterday in Ohio.
Read more... 2:06 PM, Oct 18, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENSenator John McCain called President Barack Obama’s 3-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia “a campaign trip” and said it was “unfortunate” that U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill.
Speaking with reporters at the Capitol this afternoon, McCain also criticized the president’s recent comments about the GOP jobs plan. The Arizona senator is leading the push for an alternative to the Democrats' American Jobs Act.
Read more... 10:31 AM, Oct 4, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
A recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows Mitt Romney is currently much stronger than Rick Perry in Virginia, a nearly must-win state for the GOP. The poll shows Romney with a 1-point lead (46 to 45 percent) over President Obama in the Old Dominion, while Perry trails Obama by double-digits (50 to 40 percent).
Read more... Could the governors of Texas and Virginia end up on a national ticket together?Sep 26, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 02 • By MARK HEMINGWAYRead more... 4:34 PM, Apr 26, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERVirginia governor Bob McDonnell sat down with Byron York this morning to discuss "the country’s budgetary battle – one that reflects the local lessons learned in Virginia – and an examination of the tough choices that lie ahead." The event was hosted by e21 and the Manhattan Institute. Here's video of the event:
Read more... 5:01 PM, Apr 25, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERVirginia governor Bob McDonnell will sit down for a conversation with Byron York tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event is being hosted by e21 and the Manhattan Institute. Here are the details:
Read more... The settlers of Virginia were just as devoted as their New England cousins.1:27 PM, Jan 11, 2011 • By PHILIP TERZIAN
A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith
Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia
By Lauren F. Winner
Yale, 288pp., $45
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