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Yes Virginia, Your One Vote Really Does Count

Yes Virginia, Your One Vote Really Does Count

In a nation of 280 million people, 537 votes in the state of Florida tipped the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. Most observers weighed in with restatements of the obvious, that we will never again see such a close presidential election. That may well be...
Virginia Governor’s Race Tightens on Election Eve

Virginia Governor’s Race Tightens on Election Eve

In the absence of any other races of national significance in the year after a presidential election – always the least active in the four-year political cycle – an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to an increasingly ugly – and tightening...
Virginia Governor’s Race Gets Down and Dirty

Virginia Governor’s Race Gets Down and Dirty

As Mitt Romney said during one of the 2012 presidential debates, politics isn’t beanbag.  It is a contact sport that took a hideous turn towards outright character assassination during the 2016 presidential campaign and has not since abated. While some of the campaign...