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This just may cost Tim Kaine the election. Look for it on a television near you soon! (Credit Bearing Drift for this information – Thanks guys!)

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In my wrap-up to Tuesday night’s election results from the Virginia Republican Primary, I included a rather scathing shot across the bow of the Virginia TEA Party groups who supported a completely unelectable candidate who ran a “trash and burn” campaign, not on the issues of what this candidate can do to help America (if [...]

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My friends over at Bearing Drift have a vote up now for the Virginia Senate race featuring George Allen, Jamie Radtke, Bob Marshall and E.W. Jackson. Who do you support in the primary? Click here to cast your vote and see the results.

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This is a fascinating column in Blue Virginia by noted VA Democratic political adviser Paul Goldman.  Here’s the summary: Moreover: There is still time to make this change this year. The Governor should order the State Board of Elections to wait before starting to print the ballot. Based on my experience, they can wait until [...]

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If you are a Virginia Right! reader, you are also most likely a Bearing Drift reader as well. BD does a wonderful job covering Virginia Politics. What you may not know is that these guys, led by my friend J.R. Hoeft, are also doing print media as well as radio. And all this costs money. [...]

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It has become quite common that one or more of the ranking sites decided to either go down completely or have major issues just when my software kicks off on Sunday mornings to gather the rankings for the (now) 51 Virginia blogs I track each week. And even when the sites all cooperate, it seems [...]

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The Blog Rankings are out for 9/25/2011! While I have managed to gather the data the past couple of weeks, a number of obstacles have managed to make things a bit more difficult. As soon as we got our lights back on from the hurricane, it seems that it has been one thing after another. [...]

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My friend JR Hoeft over at Bearing Drift has put together a really good analysis of the Virginia Senate races and the road-map to a Republican takeover of the Senate. This is a first look and early take on the races, before candidates have an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot and end a [...]

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Next Tuesday, August 23, 2011 there will be an opportunity for Republicans to decide which among them will best be able to win a Senate seat and help rid the Commonwealth of the ineffective and, at times, disgraceful leadership (or lack thereof) by the Democratic majority. There are a number of good people running for [...]

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Did you see this? Our friends over at Bearing Drift have been named the best state-based political blog in Virginia. The Fix – a Washington Post political “hangout” polled the political faithful and came out with the top political blogs in each state. J.R. Hoeft has always done an amazing job tracking and reporting the [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/17/2011 are out! Virginia Right! moved into the #1 slot for the first time. Yes, I do the rankings, but this is an average of 4 ranking sites, so the results are posted by each ranking engine. We simply average the results. The past few weeks have been very [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/12/2011 are out! Bearing Drift maintains the first place spot by a slim margin as All Politics is Local (Vivian Paige) climbs back up to number two, moving ahead of Virginia Right! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/5/2011 are out! Vivian Page’s All Politics is Local has been the #1 ranked blog since these rankings began the first of the year (2011). This week, All Politics is Local drops two spots to #3 as Bearing Drift moves up a spot into first place. Several blogs moved [...]

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Welcome to the new home of Virginia Right! We are now in our third year of covering mostly politics, a few sports and an occasional non political happening or two. We have made a lot of friends (not to mention enemies on the left) and have hopefully produced a website that is informative, entertaining and, [...]

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  On Friday, May 20, 2011 Virginia Right! posted a article Virginia US Senate Candidate Tim Donner Makes Critical Campaign Blunder. If you didn’t read the article, you might want to go back and give it a scan now. The article made two points, one, that we thought the characterizations of fellow Political Blog Bearing [...]

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Here are this week’s Virginia Political Blog Rankings. One change you will note is the addition of a “Weekly Trend” column. This is a comparison of an individual blog’s trend from the previous week. It is only a measure of the blog’s rise or fall compared to itself. So, two blogs may very well switch [...]

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We released Part I of the ranking of Virginia Political Blogs based on dollar value and Part II based on Global Ranking. The next part ranks the same blogs on Local standing. As before, here are the standings of ALL political blogs, followed by the Right leaning blogs and then the left leaning ones, all [...]

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One of the things that has been missing from the Virginia Political Blogosphere for a while is a method of ranking the political blogs. The now defunct blog aggregator BNN had a weekly ranking, but many questioned the validity of the weekly rankings, their objectivity and exactly what was being considered in these rankings. There [...]

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I just read an interesting post from Jason on Bearing Drift  and I used it as an inspiration for my latest Rick Boucher cartoon.

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