AltWeeklies Wire
Eric Cantor's Ongoing War With Himselfnew
Eric Cantor's latest bout of ideological whiplash comes as he gears up for his 2014 reelection campaign.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
05-02-2014 |
Politics
Tags: Eric Cantor
Romney's Virginia Team Muddles the Messagenew
The quantity of campaign surrogates is far less important than the quality—a painful lesson that the Romney campaign is just now learning.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
07-25-2012 |
Elections
In Virginia Gov. Race, Democrat Creigh Deeds Crawls Toward the Finish Linenew
There's little doubt that would-be governor Creigh Deeds is currently stuck between Barack and a hard place. Long known as a genial, gun-lovin' Democrat, Deeds has been forced to fight his current battle against Bob McDonnell -- a slick, well-coiffed conservative Ken doll -- well outside his comfort zone.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
10-14-2009 |
Politics
Virginia Republicans Look to 2009 ... and Beyondnew
If there's one thing that we love about Virginia's odd-year election cycle, it's that it stretches the already interminable political season into near-perpetuity, insuring that not a year goes by without a healthy dose of campaign shenanigans for us to laugh at, lacerate and lampoon to our snarky heart's content.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
07-22-2009 |
Politics
Virginia's GOP Chairman Navigates Some Stormy Watersnew
Not only did the much-despised Democrats thoroughly trounce the GOP at every level in the November elections, besting Republicans at the top, bottom, middle and occasionally along all four edges of the ticket, but Jeff Frederick also attracted a great deal of negative attention for some of his pre-election antics.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
12-10-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: Virginia, the Wild Blue Yondernew
Obama was a shoe-in to win the whole thing -- but Virginia?
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
11-12-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: Will Virginia Go for Obama?new
With even Larry Sabato calling the state for Obama, who has been stumping the heck out of Virginia's Southwest, Commonwealth McCainiacs are reduced to hoping for a full "Bradley Effect" on November 4.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
10-29-2008 |
Commentary
Why the Death of the Virginia GOP Could Be Good for Republicansnew
As the polls continue to go south for John McCain, and the chances of Senate hopeful Jim Gilmore picking off Mark Warner slip from infinitesimal to "President Kucinich" levels of impossibility, we thought we'd take a quick look at the current state of the Old Dominion's convulsing conservative landscape.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
10-16-2008 |
Commentary
The Virginia GOP Pulls Out All the Stopsnew
Unless we're mistaken, the party is attempting the most complex, awe-inspiring and diabolical use of reverse psychology ever perpetrated upon the voting public to help McCain take the White House.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
10-01-2008 |
Politics
Can Obama Turn Out the Youth Vote in November?new
In Virginia alone, over 100,000 folks have registered to vote in the last three months, and that's on top of the 150,000 who signed up during the primaries. And a huge chunk of these suffrage-seeking newbies are baby voters -- of the 49,000 who registered in August, a whopping 40 percent were ages 25 or under.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
09-17-2008 |
Politics
As He Eyes VP Slot, Sen. Jim Webb Presents a New Version of Himselfnew
It certainly hasn't escaped our notice that Webb has undergone a bit of a personality transfer as of late, and seems to be mellowing into a slightly-less-combative, slightly-more-effective version of the tough-talking SOB that we've come to know and ... well, maybe not love, but at least regard with brotherly affection.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
06-11-2008 |
Commentary
John McCain's Excellent Virginia Adventurenew
Some students weren't too pleased that attendance was compulsory for McCain's speech at his old stomping ground, Alexandria's Episcopal High School.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
04-16-2008 |
Politics
Virginia Lawmakers Play a Little Sexual Politicsnew
A number of eye-popping reports have recently been released on the sexual state of our (increasingly libidinal) nation, and so it came as no surprise that the wise old men of Richmond felt the need to take immediate corrective action ... by slashing every penny of state funding to Planned Parenthood of Virginia.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
04-02-2008 |
Politics
Tags: Virginia, Planned Parenthood
What Obama's Virginia Victory Says About Usnew
Behind Barack Obama's decisive victory in Virginia's primary lay the presence of the late Irene Morgan, who battled bus segregation in Virginia, but never became as famous as Rosa Parks.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
02-20-2008 |
Commentary
Stick a Fork in George Allen -- He's Donenew
The one-time high-flying Virginia governor, senator and probable presidential nominee (all until "macaca"), signals the end of his career in politics with a bland, platitude-filled missive declaring that he (quel surprise!) will not re-seek the governorship in 2009.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
01-23-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: George Allen, macaca
