Amo, a former White House aide, defeated a slew of candidates, including several current members of the state legislature,running in the Democratic primaryin September to move on to the general election. He was endorsed by former Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who held the seat from 1995 to...
While Virginia’s state legislature and governorship have swung between parties in recent years, the state has voted for the Democratic candidate for president since 2008. Down the ballot, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who was running for reelection, is projected to win against Republican challenger ...
One last thing to keep in mind with the 2023 election is turnout. While who shows up always matters, participation in Virginia’s legislative midtermsis usually quite low, so a surge in Democratic or Republican turnout could have an outsized impact on the results. In 2019, about 39 percen...
The National Legislature would be divided into two branches, and the number of members in each branch would be based on state population.What was the Virginia Plan? In May of 1787, held in the then US Capital of Philadelphia, the Constitutional Convention commenced. Originally, the convention ...
Spanberger and Earle-Sears Want to Make History in Virginia. but Voters Have Election Exhaustion Democratic former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Republican Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears are picking up steam in their bids to be Virginia's next governor ...
And when I vote this fall–as I will and as I always do, because I’ve already seen how much my state has changed, one election at a time. And because however grumpy I might get about one season’s legislative results, I’m not going to practice childlike citizenship by holding my ...
Lawrence Messina
It’s possible that the issue of guns will come up in the Democrat primary as other candidates, including Richmond Mayor Lavar Stoney are expected to jump in to this race but based on the 2023 election, it is likely we are going to hear a lot about abortion until the GOP figures our ...
Student Council’s goal to end the use of prison labor serves as a call for the Virginia legislature to follow the suit of Congressional Democrats, whointroduceda bill several weeks ago to end the practice. Unpaid prison labor is currently permissible un...
Jim Justice flips West Virginia Senate seat for Republicans By URSULA PERANO 11/05/2024 07:30 PM EST 2024 Elections Live 2024 West Virginia Senate election results by county 2024 Elections Inside Jim Justice’s alleged attendance problems; they could be a problem for a GOP Senate ...