The FBI is now investigating whether or not Virginia governor Bob McDonnell violated any laws when he allowed a campaign donor to pay for catering at his daughter's wedding. That is perhaps the least weird part of the story.
It took a split decision from a federal appeals court on a gruesome case, but sodomy is finally legal in Virginia, even if holdouts remain in other states where local laws still take what's seen as an anti-gay stance to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
Republicans are flirting with changing the basic American principle of "one man, one vote," into something a little more flexible — something like "one man, one to three votes."
Tareq Salahi, the former The Real Housewives of D.C. star has been flirting with a run in Virginia, since last fall, but clashed with the state party over signing a pledge, required for all Republican candidates, to support the eventual nominee. Now he's in.
Mike Crapo, the Republican Senator from Idaho who was arrested in Virginia on December 23 under the suspicion of driving while intoxicated, pled guilty in a Virginia court today.
Today in Poll Watch: National polls show the presidential race essentially tied. In the swing states, it's a mixed picture: Mitt Romney has the upper hand in Florida, the two are in a dead heat in Virginia, and President Obama is ahead in New Hampshire and Ohio. But that still means Romney's the underdog, because winning Virginia and Florida won't get him to 270 electoral votes.
Today in Poll Watch: Voters in three swing states see more strong leadership qualities in Romney than Obama; in another poll of swing states we find the debate didn't change that many people's minds; a small number of debate watchers do so on two screens; and the national tracking polls once again conflict.
Today in Poll Watch: Pew shows Mitt Romney leading by four points, the tracking polls paint a confusing picture, swing state polls show President Obama leading by a small margin, and fewer Obama supporters than Romney supporters are "extremely likely" to vote.
Today's in Poll Watch: Two different pollsters show Virginia, Ohio, and Florida leaning more towards Romney than they had been, but the tracking polls still have Obama up nationally.
Today in Poll Watch: Two national polls show differing results, Romney's close in Florida and Virginia, but down in Ohio, Romney's gaffe was worse than Obamas, and the Democrat might be winning the Arizona senate race.
It's difficult to understate the importance of Lockheed Martin's latest announcement on the race for the White House: the defense contractor said on Monday it will not be issuing employee layoff notices to 123,000 workers on Nov. 2—just four days before the presidential election.
You would expect Republican politicians to struggle with answering questions about Mitt Romney's "47 percent," conflicted between party loyalty and their own electoral welfare. But for Democrats, the answer should be easy. Not so for Tim Kaine, who just advocated taxing the poor.
President Obama takes a (possibly) large lead in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, has a small lead in Virginia, but is tied with Mitt Romney in Colorado. In another poll of 12 swing states, Obama is up by two points. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
In the latest swing state polls, Obama is up by 8 in Virginia and five in Michigan, and Romey leads by 2 in Colorado and 1 in Florida. While in the Massachusetts Senate, Elizabeth Warren keeps her lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Both candidates had good news to point to in the national polls today, which means they also both had bad news. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Post-"legitimate rape" polls are bouncing around in Missouri, while Virginia is tied. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Journalists in Sacramento are not happy about a Thursday report that its NBA team, The Kings, were in talks to move to Virginia Beach, which comes through in the local media's immediate, en masse takedown of the story in the Virginia-based Inside Business.
A new poll shows the "stubborn" trends in three swing states, another has Romney "underwater" in favorability, while still another puts Obama in the lead nationally. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama says "America is the greatest nation on earth" as we get set to demonstrate that by owning the Olympics, the Republican National Committee gives you permission to vote against Obama, and Democrats go for veterans.
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Mitt Romney has said if Republicans don't get more popular among Latinos, they're "doomed." So far, he's still not too popular.
Amid the ongoing debate over President Obama's support of gay marriage and following of North Carolina's recent ban of it, Virginia's House of Delegates voted today to deny a judicial nomination to Tracy Thorne-Begland, who would have become the state's first openly gay judge.
Now that the general election is heating up, it's time to pay attention to the swing states that pick the president. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Think Progress engaged in some of its more gentle criticism of Mitt Romney Wednesday when it pointed out that little "We Stand United" pins he had made for the 2002 Winter olympics in Salt Lake City were actually made in China.
"[Tareq] Salahi has the dubious designation of being one of the least popular people we've ever polled," Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen said of the White House-crashing reality star's potential run for the Virginia governorship.
It's a strange Constitutional quirk that the voters of only a couple states will be lavished with -- and tortured by -- attention from the presidential candidates till November.
An F-18 fighter jet has crashed into a Virginia Beach apartment complex, but the pilots bailed out, and in the end they and five others were injured non-critically. One pilot told a rescuer: "sorry for destroying your house."
Mitt Romney's campaign has started a new blog to humanize him, but he still has some work to do in Virginia. Newt Gingrich has that genre locked down, but he might consider working on another: cute Callista photos. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney is feeling so good about the 10 states voting today that he and his wife are flying home to Boston. We'll be liveblogging the returns as soon as results start coming in.
Only four days after Virginia shot down a similar measure, the Alabama State Senate is moving forward with a law that would require women to go through an invasive vaginal ultrasound procedure in order the get an abortion.
Virginia's proposed ultrasound bill requiring a transvaginal procedure prior to an abortion got a lot of women angry this week. Turns out, one of those women happened to be married to a GOP lawmaker.
After a committee approved a bill that would give "unborn children" the legal rights of citizens, the bill was defeated Thursday in the Virginia Senate.
After an understandable uproar over a mandatory procedure that federal law would consider rape, Virginia legislators have opted to forgo the invasive and most definitely uncomfortable procedure for women seeking abortions.
The Virginia Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow adoption agencies to turn away parents based on their moral beliefs (read: sexual orientation), and the governor is expected to sign it into law.
Tuesday night's elections offer concrete evidence for polls showing Republican voters are comparatively less enthusiastic about doing their Democratic duty this year.
The campaigns of two of the highest-profile alternatives to Mitt Romney failed to submit enough signatures to make the Republican primary ballot in Virginia.
While Democratic voters are growing less and less excited about voting in the 2012 elections, Democratic lawmakers up for reelection are so unenthusiastic they're asking President Obama not to show up in their districts.
His reelection campaign has spent as much as the GOP candidates combined
With low approval ratings among working-class whites, he targets educated independents
A Virginia plant is taken offline as diesel generators kick into gear
Learning his grandfather was jailed in the Holocaust made him appreciate racial sensitivity
Attorney general condemns King & Spalding's "obsequious act of weakness"
The Democratic National Committee chair seeks to replace one-termer Jim Webb
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