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Archive of Virginia on Tuesday November 03, 2009
VA: Rivals launch last-minute push to secure voters
Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and Republican Robert F. McDonnell campaigned across Virginia on Monday, leading efforts to draw out voters with a blitz of door-knocking, phone-calling and TV advertising in the final hours of the hard-fought race for governor. Read More
VA: 8 things -- A poll watcher's guide to the Virginia election
As pundits try Wednesday to spin the results forward to what they might mean for 2010 contests, perhaps the biggest thing to watch will be the vote among political independents, a growing and influential share of the national electorate. Read More
VA: What awaits the new governor -- budget slashing
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. -- The new governor elected Tuesday will be brimming with ideas on how to move Virginia forward, but one of his first jobs will likely be proposing deep cuts in state spending to deal with a budget shortfall of at least $1 billion. Read More
VA: Candidates finish campaigns with final bids for votes
Today, the people speak. In polling places across the Virginia, voters will decide the state's direction as they cast ballots for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 seats in the House of Delegates. Read More
VA: McDonnell lead grows in home stretch of race
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. -- With Virginia's Election Day less than 48 hours away, large numbers of previously undecided voters say they're supporting Bob McDonnell for governor, giving the Republican a 12-percentage-point lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, according to a poll. Read More
VA: Virginia governor candidates hold last-minute rallies
Both Deeds and McDonnell were in Hampton Roads on Sunday to stage last-minute rallies. With two days until the election, the candidates urged supporters to keep up their efforts. Read More
VA: More local races joining November's big tickets
Blacksburg voters will choose their mayor and City Council on Tuesday, the first time local elections have been held in November, joining towns and cities across Virginia that have moved local contests from May so they coincide with higher-profile state and national general elections. Read More
VA: If Deeds loses, it'll be because he forgot the new independents
When Karl Rove set out to get George W. Bush reelected in 2004, he targeted the Expedition-driving, megachurch-attending, Panera-eating, McMansion-living voters in places like Loudoun County, Va. Bush won Loudoun with 56 percent on his way to a comfortable victory statewide. Read More
VA: How Creigh Deeds got undone
Pollsters of all political stripes predict that Creigh Deeds is most likely headed toward defeat Tuesday in the Virginia governor's race. And to a large extent, it's because he's underperforming in Northern Virginia, the educated/upper-income core of the commonwealth's Democratic base. Read More
VA: Long-distance call from Alaska?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a long-awaited entry into the Virginia governor's race via an automated call to as many as 350,000 state residents urging them to vote. Read More
VA: Norfolk candidate cries foul over Democratic flier
NORFOLK, Va. --Commissioner of Revenue Sharon McDonald, a Democrat, strongly objected to a flier passed out to voters Monday, saying it implies that President Barack Obama and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds support her opponent. Read More
VA: Campo voted in as Regent's next president
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Carlos Campo, Regent University's vice president for academic affairs, will succeed founder Pat Robertson as the school's next president in 2010. Read More
VA: Senior citizens kill themselves at higher rate, statistics show
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- When Travis Payne talked to her elderly mother that evening in May 1997, she knew something was wrong. The 83-year-old sounded very anxious and irrational, uncharacteristically hanging up the phone on her daughter. Read More
US: Off-year elections will test Democrats' influence
WASHINGTON — Elections in a handful of states today, including governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia, loom as the first significant electoral test of the coalition that swept President Obama and congressional Democrats to victory one year ago. Read More |
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