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DEVELOPING….
One of the most egregious errors of the “abuser fee” debate is the fact that the fines apply only to Virginians, and not to out of state drivers.
So VOM’s crack bookies and oddsmakers did a bit of research in the past bills… was it the dastardly House Republicans who did this nefarious deed???
House Passed Version [...]
(h/t to VJP)
Another American icon passes away.
Given the July 4th holidays, we figured it would be pretty quiet in the blogosphere. Some movement in the Big Line over last week, and our weekly Blog Rankings are up!
…the GOP’s a comin’!
Veteran Republicans say they have quietly raised millions of dollars for a pair of nonprofit organizations that will launch this fall with the ambitious aim of providing a conservative counterweight to the liberal MoveOn.org, Politico.com has learned.
The eight-year-old MoveOn family of organizations — which boast a deep fundraising base, including major support [...]
Interesting analysis by Kenton Ngo over at 750 Volts:
While the Republican coalition splinters, the Democratic coalition grows no stronger. I would credit a good portion of current gains for the Democratic side to simple disgust with the Republicans. In the zero-sum game of two-party politics, the Democrats have found themselves on the up and up. [...]
The Bush-Kennedy-Reid immigration plan is dead (again).
Score one for conservative bloggers. What the netroots do for the Democrats in fundraising, the netroots do for the Republicans on issues and policy.
Virginia Federalist (a pseudonymously run blog) has been running a great series on blog ethics. You can read the first three installments below:
Virginia Federalist: Pseudonymous Blogging (Part I)
Virginia Federalist: Pseudonymous Blogging (Part II)
Virginia Federalist: Pseudonymous Blogging (Part III)
This is following in the wake of at least two websites devoted solely to the topic of blogging [...]
Sic Semper Tyrannis’s Norm Leahy blasts Lowell Feld at Raising Kaine for a blatantly dishonest attack on AG McDonnell.
This is what is so disgusting about the blogosphere, and what we hope to reform.
Anyone paying attention to the 87th HOD race? Paula Miller is in real trouble against Republican Henry Giffin…
If Giffin can keep up the fundraising, Miller may be in her last term. Of course on the flip side, the 88th District race between Mark Cole and Carlos Del Toro is a dead heat in terms of [...]
The resident VOM liberal disagrees with this post. VOM’s conservative and libertarian asked for some clarification (just what are the Democrats running on this year?) and she verbally berated us.
…which must mean Brian is right!
Of course, the DPVA does have an agenda, to which the RPV rightly responded. Still, BD has a point.
Insight from Virginia Virtucon on the successor to Ed Gillespie over at RPV.
…they’re not really “rankings” as in the best blog. Think of it more as Newsweek’s Conventional Wisdom column (and all of the comments are in jest — sorry BVBL).
This is no surprise, but this debacle is going to haunt Creigh Deeds for some time:
“I was concerned about the public perception, No. 1,” said Deeds, narrowly defeated for attorney general in 2005. “Frankly, the perception thing was the main thing. I couldn’t get around it.”
Public perception? Or ethics, Creigh?
Frankly, this was poorly handled by [...]
How Andy Hurst’s unsuccessful bid for VA-11 (Davis) performed via donation strength.
Interesting analysis, though the prescription for why this was the case is a bit of a stretch. Still, an analysis of all of the 2006 races in Virginia might be a look worthy of the mind of Kenton Ngo (or an equal, if one [...]
It has come to our attention as we were bouncing the Blog Rankings back and forth that Democratic bloggers have been perniciously quiet as of late. VB Dems had a pretty good post (with a song we had to look up to get the joke), but nothing big other than the IP outing of DPVA [...]
State Democrats are touting their new “21/51″ logo, which must mean they hope to take back the General Assembly by 2151. By their agenda, that’s about the earliest it’ll happen.
Brian Kirwin over at Bearing Drift effortlessly destroys the “21/51″ argumentation, which marks the second time the Democrats memos have been slapped down by Republicans in [...]
Waldo Jaquith takes folks to task for anonymous commentary, delving into the catfight between DPVA and the progressive netroots.
IPs can be tracked, usually back to a server. IPs can also be spoofed using proxy servers and the like.
Amazing how after the primaries, the blogs go to war:
RK and NLS vs. DPVA (re: 11th District and [...]
Got a chuckle out of the DPVA memo sent to the incoming chairman for RPV. Got an even better laugh out of RPV’s response.
This is going to be a great election season.
Welcome to the first post on Virginia Oddsmaker!
This site is designed for two reasons. First, there isn’t a good, credible blog in Virginia that takes an objective look at the races. Some sites used to do this, other sites claim to do this. Most sites are just bitter poltical hackery, and we think the blogs [...]
