Tag: elections
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The Election for Virginia’s Local Offices
by James C. Sherlock Political bloggers, including this one, tend to focus on Virginia’s largest jurisdictions. But the Commonwealth, and certainly our democracy, is distinguished also by its small towns. The efforts of the citizens of those small jurisdictions to govern themselves on local matters are inspiring. They provide a lesson to the rest of…
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New VPAP Modelling Shows Why Virginia Republicans Are Losing Elections
by Shaun Kenney There’s a common theme among Virginia Republican number crunchers that Fairfax County is the snake that swallowed the bowling ball. More accurately, that no matter how well Republicans might seem to do across the Commonwealth, when 1.3 million Fairfax County residents make their voices heard, that’s a massive fraction of the nearly…
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A Big Election Day for Marijuana
by DJ Rippert Rolling stoned gathers no moss. Marijuana reform has been gaining momentum in the U.S. since California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. Today 36 states have either enacted medical marijuana access laws or are in the process of implementing such laws. In 2012 Colorado and Washington became the…