Full Text of Republican Response to State of the Union

After the jump, the full text of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

NY-23: Conservatives Struggle to Find an Anti-Pelosi Angle

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — On a conference call with some of the conservative leaders who’d backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s upstart campaign in NY-23, I asked for a response to an uncomfortable argument about the results. Hoffman and the outside groups who backed him tried very hard to link More…

Video: Michael Steele Discusses Yesterday’s Elections

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele held a press conference this morning to analyze his party’s election victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey and its loss in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. After the jump, watch some video from the event.

Pawlenty on McDonnell Win

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) is out front with a statement congratulating Bob McDonnell on his big win in Virginia:

“I want to send my congratulations to Bob, Maureen and their family. Bob ran a positive campaign based on the conservative principles of fiscal responsibility and low taxes.

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NY-23: ‘Doug Rode the 50-Foot Wave’

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – Supporters are slowly trickling into Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election night party at the Hotel Saranac, into a small ballroom with four flatscreen TVs tuned to election coverage. The reaction to Bob McDonnell’s long-expected victory in Virginia’s gubernatorial race was muted — no bursts of More…

Conservatives Ready to Claim Election Day Victory

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Conservatives declared victory in the 2009 off-year elections four days before voters went the polls. With the withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava, the embattled moderate Republican candidate, from the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, activists and organizers are toasting a shocking victory over the Republican More…

GOP Takes Command in Virginia

A new Washington Post poll in the Virginia gubernatorial race has Republican candidate Bob McDonnell jumping to a 9-point lead over Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds, a 5-point boost that the newspaper credits in part to Deeds’s “bungling questions from reporters about whether he supports a tax increase.” Republican candidates More…

Poll: Bob McDonnell’s Lead Slips in Virginia Race

The new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia finds Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell slipping narrowly in a race he’s dominated for months. He’s up by five percentage points, just outside the margin of error; in the last poll, he was up by seven points.

Bob McDonnell Cited Michael ‘Porn Makes You Gay’ Schwartz in His 1989 Thesis

Blogger Lowell Feld notices that Michael Schwartz — the longtime conservative activist-turned-Hill staffer whom I heard wax poetic about the gay-making powers of pornography — was cited twice in Bob McDonnell’s notorious 1989 thesis. The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia cited Schwartz twice, once on an More…

Democrats Looking Like Losers in Virginia

The new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia has two pieces of bad news for Democrats. The obvious one: In the gubernatorial race, State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is lagging 14 points behind Republican candidate Bob McDonnell, the state’s former attorney general. The worse news:

The 5% of John

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