When I began GOTV blog there were few local blogs and almost no one blogging who had experience in grassroots politics. Rather the tell readers how to do grassroots organizing I wanted to show them how it is done. This is not something that can be explained in the abstract. [...]
In many ways the ground work for their victories was laid by Hurst and his army of canvassers. We knew who our Democratic supporters were because we spent 2006 identifying them.
Some of Hurst's supporters would like him to run again. I think Hurst would rather be Attorney General [...]
Today owes a great deal to Andrea Chamblee. For years she has been documenting Davis misconduct, chipping away at his image of moderation and exposing him for the crony kleptocrat that he is.
Whether we beat Davis, or whether he throws in the towell and retires, Chamblee has [...]
This is in many ways Howard Dean's day. Democrats did well all over the country. They did well by offering solutions instead of demogogry, but they also did well because of hard working DNC organizers working all over the country. Democrats did well because Howard Dean understands that there is [...]
Crooks and Liars has a round-up of the national blogs. Please voters of the 27th Senate District, vote Schultz and spare Virginia additional embarrassment. [...]
Salem Oregon Statesman Journal Citing a close special election in Massachusetts in which the issue of illegal immigration attracted a considerable amount of attention, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and champion of Democratic prospects for maintaining their House majority in 2008, said, "for the American [...]
This is cornered rat syndrome. Remember the end of Black's campaign in 2005? Remember those pathetic attacks on Webb's novels? This is the same thing. One of the signs of a losing campaign is the loss of perspective. Davis Enterprises has [...]
I know, truly I do know, what it is like to get hate telephone calls directed toward a parent. It rattles you. It is not possible not to be rattled by such conduct. That is its purpose.
Console yourself with the knowledge that this is a sure sign of [...]
I am given to understand that requests for absentee ballots in Fairfax County are way above the rate for 2003, by the look of their increasingly desperate tactics, Republicans have heard the same reports.
Tip for political reporters, call the Registrar’s office in your local jurisdiction and ask about [...]
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According to the leading private PWC resident in favor of tomorrow's proposal to fund the anti-illegal immigrant resolution, four of the eight Board members are committed to voting yes. That means the remaining four members must vote no to stop this hateful and recklessly expensive [...]
My Gore bumper sticker Almost eight months ago, on February 23rd, when Democratic Central was still a new political blog, I posted a diary titled A DraftGore.Com bumper sticker, in which I explained why I put a Gore bumper sticker on my car. That sticker is still there, [...]
Think Progress Last year, the Department of Homeland Security awarded one of the most ambitious technology contracts in the war on terror a 10-year deal estimated at up to $10 billion to the global consulting firm Accenture. After giving DHS advice on how to run the bidding [...]
Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations wants probes to determine whether private security contractors in Iraq have committed war crimes and for governments to ensure that the rule of law is applied, U.N. officials said [...]
I saw one of her ads on TV. She has been in the legislature since 1998. Did she mention any of her achievements? Of course not. Not even her voting machines reform, her only legitimate claim to service.
Instead she made some wild allegations about Chaps voting record on [...]
Mary Matalin was serving as George Allen's campaign treasurer. She is currently advising Fred Thompson's campaign (which explains why her husband has been able to con CNN and Time into taking Thompson seriously). I suppose after Allen collapsed, all the good Republican Presidential candidates, such as they are, were taken. [...]
The Independent Rupert Murdoch's mother, Dame Elisabeth, faces a 43.5m bill if Australian courts rule that a 36.9m payout from the Murdoch family holding company Cruden Investments [...]
A Democrat who wishes to be known as Vienna Trees sent us the following: Late this afternoon I got a robo call poll - one of those calls where a robot asks a question, you answer "yes" or"no" and the robot asks another question. The [...]
I'm Sherry Wolfe & I Know Why They Didn't Drag Me Out Just wanted to share these details, but please remember this action at the Chamber of Commerce Bush Town Hall Meeting was not about me. The imperative was to hand deliver a letter from a good friend whose [...]
Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, writes that researchers with access to the college admissions data that many institutions keep a tight guard on found that 15 percent of freshmen at 146 "highly selective" colleges are white students who [...]
Who killed Ciara Durkin? A young lesbian joins the Army National Guard. She is sent to Afghanistan in a desk job working with financial information. While on home leave, she says to her family, "If something happens to me in Afghanistan, don't let it go without an [...]
From Bryan Scrafford's must read account of Petersen and Connolly at GMU: Through mentioning how many political movements work from the bottom up, Connolly then transitioned into current events. He also focused on how what we do here in Fairfax County can have an affect on Virginia politics [...]
The Jewish Daily Forward In case Bush does decide to attack Iran, it is questionable whether Irans large, well-dispersed and well-camouflaged nuclear program can really be knocked out. This is all the more doubtful because, in contrast to the Israeli attacks on Iraq back in 1981 and on Syria [...]
Rupert Murdoch: only a mother could love him Of all the embarrassing stories that have come out about Rupert Murdoch over the years, it is hard to go past todays revelations in The AFR that he short-changed his own mother and then left her with a huge tax [...]
Mayor Makes Another Request For An Update On Cornejo Killing The Mayor of Falls Church made another request for an update this week from Fairfax County on the Steve Cornejo shooting investigation. The request was directed to Fairfax Chairman Gerry Connolly, who had previously requested a status from Commonwealth [...]
Summary: Sen. Jim Webb and Reps. Frank Pallone, Jan Schakowsky, Chris Van Hollen, and Patrick Murphy denounced Rush Limbaugh for calling service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq "phony soldiers," which Media Matters for America documented. [...]
