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...Va.) Republican Bob McDonnell tapped Virginia's independent voters Tuesday to win a landslide election for governor just a year after the state bucked tradition and voted for Barack Obama. McDonnell, a conservative former state attorney general, had about...
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Time Magazine
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...going back to 1977 of voting for a governor from the opposing party of the sitting president. Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell won in Virginia by shoring up support among Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, by being competitive among moderates,...
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/03/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5516020.shtml
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RICHMOND, Va. - The new Republican governor-elect of Virginia brings to the office firmly conservative views that took root in the suburban, middle-class Irish Catholic home of his youth.
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Tuesday will mark the end of the Virginia Governor’s race and one would hope an end to statewide mudslinging. But if this rather dirty election campaign has taught us anything, it is that the type of mud that gets thrown around matters.
Republican Bob
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...10 days ago — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** McDonnell vs. the GOP: With Bob McDonnell (D) comfortably leading Virginia’s gubernatorial race, according to the polls, some national Republicans are eagerly anticipating...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/mcdonnell-extends-advantage-in-times-dispatch-poll/
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As a young Army lieutenant stationed in Germany, Bob McDonnell made the Guinness Book of World Records.
He organized his hospital unit to carry a 120-pound woman on a stretcher on a record-breaking trek — 93.4 miles in 32 hours.
Thirty-two years later,
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Bob McDonnell has again expanded his lead in the race to be Virginia's next Governor and is now up 55-40 on Creigh Deeds. A week ago the contest stood at 52-40. There is some indication in the recent polls that Democratic voters are giving up on this
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HAMPTON — Republican Bob McDonnell reached out to Peninsula voters in downtown Hampton on Friday night, pitching himself as the best candidate to help pull Virginia out of an economic slump.
"There are some signs that the economic downturn might be
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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As the Virginia gubernatorial race enters its final days, the Republican candidate said he won’t renew a non-discrimination order if elected governor while his Democratic opponent is winning LGBT group endorsements.
In an interview published Oct. 13,
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Washington Blade
http://washblade.com/2009/10-23/news/localnews/15418.cfm
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“There are other opportunities out there. But what I can do now is be the best attorney general I can be. If I do that, the Lord will open other doors for me.”
by Ken
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and pundits gotta, well, do what they do, and in
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Down With Tyranny!
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-virginia-could-deeds-have-stopped.html
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...yesterday's Rasmussen poll which found Virginia's gubernatorial race deadlocked, a new DailyKos/Research 2000 survey finds Bob McDonnell (R) maintaining a solid lead over Creigh Deeds (D). McDonnell leads Deeds by seven points, 50% to 43%. ... McDonnell Presses...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/deeds-mcdonnell-go-on-the-attack-in-final-debate/
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Although many pundits think the religious right is waning,
Republican Bob McDonnell, whose political views were shaped by radical
right-wing beliefs--those of Christian Reconstruction--appears poised to win
Virginia's upcoming gubernatorial election.
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BeliefNet
http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/bob-mcdonnells-thesis-christia.html
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... As a young Army lieutenant stationed in Germany, Bob McDonnell made the Guinness Book of World Records. He organized his hospital unit to carry a 120-pound woman on a stretcher on a record-breaking trek -- 93.4 miles in 32 hours. Thirty-two years later, McDonnell...
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I always love it when the "sophisticated" side of the aisle demands an immediate "yes or no" answer to a complex, multifaceted question; and when the Right can't give it and won't fake it, the Left brays that we're dodging the question!
The issue had
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Big Lizards
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2009/10/just_answer_one.html
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VIRGINIA BEACH -- Between campaign stops on a humid August day, Bob McDonnell's caravan detoured onto Petunia Crescent in the Green Run neighborhood.
McDonnell stepped out and, embracing his wife, Maureen, quietly stared at a modest brick home. They
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Roanoke.com
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RICHMOND, Va. — Republican
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Middletown Journal
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SHIRLINGTON, Va. -- Marge Epstein squeezed between me and Democrat Creigh Deeds' press secretary one day this week and demanded that each of us tell her Deeds' message in one short sentence. Naturally, the press secretary -- Jared Leopold -- made me go
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Politics Daily
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/07/mcdonnell-deeds-face-off-in-virginia-battle-of-styles-ideology/
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Meg Whitman will no longer be raising money for Bob McDonnell in Virginia.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's appearance at a Virginia fundraiser this week for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell has been
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CNN
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RICHMOND -
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is using a television ad to respond to reports about the rigidly conservative thesis he wrote in 1989.
And both candidates unleashed new attack ads Friday that pillory their opponents with
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Now that we're in the October endorsement race, it seems like a good time to ask: Do endorsements matter? Take the poll:
Republicans Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli rolled out a plan for mental health reform in Northern Virginia Tuesday.
Here's the
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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If Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell thought he was going to get friendly treatment on "Fox News Sunday," he was in for quite a surprise.
Fox host Chris Wallace grilled McDonnell - appearing without Democrat Creigh Deeds, who declined
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0909/McDonnell_grilled_in_Fox_News_Sunday_appearance.html
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Fred Barnes Alexandria, Va. Virginia has been kind to Democrats as of late. Eight years ago, Democrat Mark Warner captured the governor’s mansion. Four years later, his lieutenant governor, Tim Kaine, succeeded him. In 2006, Jim Webb took one of the
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418831128891434.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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Del. Phil Hamilton, under fire for taking a job at an Old Dominion University teacher-training center that he sought state funding for, just released his response to ODU's internal audit of the situation.
The ODU auditors found Hamilton's hiring was
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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THIS NOVEMBER, FAIR-MINDED Virginia voters have the opportunity to make a strong statement at the ballot box. They will decide whether the state will continue its march toward full equality for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens, or
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Washington Blade
http://washblade.com/2009/9-18/view/columns/15174.cfm
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From NBC's Mark Murray
McLEAN, Va. -- In their second debate, Virginia gubernatorial nominees Creigh Deeds (D) and Bob McDonnell (R) sparred here over transportation, taxes and energy policy, as well as the subject that has dominated the campaign in
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MSNBC
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/09/17/2073476.aspx
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This is from the Reagan administration’s deregulatory 1981 energy plan: “All Americans are involved in making energy policy. When individual choices are made with a maximum of personal understanding and a minimum of government restraints, the result is
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NORFOLK -
— Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds sparred over taxes and transportation in Hampton Roads on Tuesday even as they worked to win supporters among the local legal community.
McDonnell, the former attorney general, repeatedly
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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In January 2003, then-Del. Robert F. McDonnell helped gavel in one of the most extraordinary judicial reappointment hearings in Virginia history: a seven-hour, trial-like affair that led to questions about whether the future Republican gubernatorial
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Below the Beltway
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Not to take away from the discussions Bob McDonnell’s positions on social issue, but I thought it would be a good to start also revisiting Bob McDonnell’s policy proposals. Since some are quick to point out that McDonnell has plans and he’s running on
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Vivian J. Page
http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2009/09/08/bob-mcdonnell%e2%80%99s-energy-plan/
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NORFOLK -
— Republican Bob McDonnell is pushing to move past the controversy stirred by his 1989 graduate school thesis, saying the focus on the 20-year-old paper is a "campaign based on fear and distraction."
McDonnell was in Hampton Roads for a
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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One element of the controversy surrounding McDonnell's thesis hit a little close to home.
The Washington Post story that first reported on the thesis included a brief discussion about comments then-Del. McDonnell made back in 2003 during
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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RICHMOND -- Democrat Creigh Deeds is betting that a 20-year-old academic paper written by Republican rival Bob McDonnell will shake up the race for governor just as the fall campaign shifts into high gear.
Deeds on Thursday stepped up his assault on
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Roanoke.com
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/217727
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Peninsula residents are reporting that Del. Phil Hamiltonis polling local voters to gage the reaction to the recent firestorm around his $40,000 a year job at Old Dominion University.
Hamilton resigned the post in August after the Daily Press obtained
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Since the Washington Post reported that Virginia's Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell's 1989 master's thesis called working women and feminists "detrimental to the family," we've wondered how much this news would hurt him among female
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Politics Daily
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/03/at-gwu-women-largely-unbothered-by-bob-mcdonnells-views/
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Politicos, pundits and armchair campaign managers around the country are keeping a close eye on this year’s gubernatorial contest in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The stakes couldn’t be higher. In fact, many analysts believe this race (among others)
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Dakota Voice
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At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working
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Matthew Yglesias
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RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia’s social conservatives haven’t abandoned Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob McDonnell after he renounced many of the beliefs he espoused in a college thesis 20 years ago.
But conservative leaders said Tuesday McDonnell can’t
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Boston Herald
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RICHMOND -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said Tuesday that he would free up money to increase teachers' salaries by shifting education dollars from administration to the classroom, a proposal that was greeted with derision by the
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Roanoke.com
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/217453
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At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working
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AMERICAblog
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RICHMOND -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell moved Monday to distance himself from aspects of a 20-year-old academic paper in which he described the trends of working women and feminism as "detrimental to the family" and argued that
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Roanoke.com
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/217361
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RICHMOND, Va. Virginia's Republican candidate for governor said Monday he no longer believes his argument in a graduate thesis written 20 years ago that discrimination against gays and other groups is acceptable for the benefit of straight, married
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KansasCity.com
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The media spotlight is on gubernatorial hopeful Robert McDonnell who is currently launching his 2009 campaign for governor of Virginia. McDonnell finds himself in hot water for his 1989 thesis, which outlines a
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Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/5349620/womens-issues-are-about-to-torpedo-bob-mcdonnells-campaign
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ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, distanced himself on Monday from some of the conservative views he expressed in a thesis he wrote 20 years ago when he was a graduate student at Pat
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ABC News
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From NBC's Mark Murray and Ali Weinberg
In an extraordinary, hour-long conference call, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell said he repudiated some of the words he wrote in his now-controversial 1989 graduate thesis -- including writing that
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MSNBC
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/31/2048608.aspx
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From NBC's Mark Murray and Ali Weinberg
In an extraordinary, hour-long conference call, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell said he repudiated some of the words he wrote in his now-controversial 1989 graduate thesis -- including writing that
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MSNBC
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/31/2048608.aspx
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Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, defended himself Monday after the Washington Post reported that his 1989 master’s degree thesis advocated a number of controversial, socially conservative positions.
The Post reported
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26630.html
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At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working
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AMERICAblog
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Americablog/~3/3AWV5l0LQyA/gop-candidate-for-gov-in-virginia.html
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Republican Bob McDonnell, who earned a master's degree at Pat Robertson's Regent University, is seeking the Virginia governorship.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Eager to draw attention Bob McDonnell's conservative roots, campaign advisers to Democrat Creigh Deeds
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_politicalticker/~3/7zzbkiUeG9s/
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Republican Bob McDonnell, who earned a master's degree at Pat Robertson's Regent University, is seeking the Virginia governorship.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Eager to draw attention Bob McDonnell's conservative roots, campaign advisers to Democrat Creigh Deeds
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CNN
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Virginia Democrats, the Creigh Deeds campaign and the Democratic National Committee want you to know that Bob McDonnell is no moderate Republican, or even simply a fiscally conservative Republican. No, McDonnell is a cultural conservative who would
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Real Clear Politics
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2009/08/race_governor_virginia_changed.html
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