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Political analyst weighs in after Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union speech President Donald Trump's hours-long State of the Union address has a lot of people talking. The speech broke tradition in more ways than one.

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JD Vance's Hindu Wife Usha To Convert After Vice President's Pitch? US Expert’s Big Reveal Will JD Vance's Hindu wife Usha convert to Christianity due to pressure from MAGA supporters? Dr. David Richards, Chair of Political Science at the University of Lynchburg, Virginia, said on Global Pu...

Richards did, in fact, not reveal anything... Still I think the interview went well!
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Virginia sees surge in early voting, mostly among likely Democratic voters Early voting has steadily increased in Virginia since the Democratic-controlled General Assembly expanded ballot access in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

I spoke with @washingtonpost.com about early voter turn out in Virginia
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Trump keeps distance in Virginia as Obama goes all in Trump has not yet endorsed in the Virginia gubernatorial race, even as former President Barack Obama will campaign in the commonwealth.

Why won't Trump endorse Winsome Sears in the virignia Governor's race?
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Trump Endorses (fill in the blank) for Republican Governor of Virginia Ocotber 20, 2025 On Airforce One Sunday (10/19/2025) Trump was asked about the Virginia Governor’s race (video here)  “I think the Republican candidate is very good, and I think she should, she sho…

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Jones Doesn’t Have To Drop Out of the Race, But Virginians Don’t Have To Vote For Him Either October 14 2025 After the Governor’s debate last week, where we saw the true character of each candidate —one steady, reasonable, unreasonably patient, the other rude, immature, and clearly lacking…

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Jay Jones Does Not Have The Maturity To be Virginia’s Next Attorney General October 5 2025 Revelations over the past week about Jay Jones’ speeding ticket and morbid, violent comments, both from three years ago, point to a common factor- a lack of emotional maturity to rea…

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YouTube video by University of Lynchburg Research Center Dr. Dave Richards- Disney, DeSantis and Dissolution of the Reedy Creek Improvement District

Hey! Got 45 minutes to waste learning about Disney's Reedy Creek District?
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What the First Day of Early Voting Means, If Anything September 22 2025 VPAP released the Virginia House of Delegates early voting totals from last Friday, the first day of early voting in Virginia. The map is interesting. It shows that there has been…

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Why Won’t Trump Endorse Sears? September 22 2025 Okay, so disclaimer out of the way first – for all I know, you may be reading this on Tuesday or even Monday lunchtime, shaking your head and muttering, “Richards really scr…

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Disney, Sinclair and Me September 19 2025 The text came in around 9:30 this morning – would I talk about campaign finance with a reporter from WSET? Would I? Should I? To bring you up to date, ABC announced this wee…

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Hashmi is Making a Mistake by Not Debating Reid Sepetmber 15 2025 Lately, Republican candidate for Virginia Lt Gov John Reid has been making much political hay over the fact that his Democratic opponent, Ghazala Hashmi, has not agreed to a publi…

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I Love VPAP, But It Is Very Problematic September 8 2025 First, let me put all the disclaimers up front. I like and appreciate what the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) does. No, “like” is not the right word; “depe…

My love/hate relationship with the VPAP website
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No, He’s Not Dead September 1 2025 But what a strange, sad state of affairs, where that’s a topic of idle speculation. And does one have to dust off a degree in Kremlinology to try to suss out if a picture pos…

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Spanberger vows to scrap Youngkin’s immigration order if elected governor • Virginia Mercury Democratic nominee for governor Abigail Spanberger says one of her first acts if elected would be to undo Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s February directive requiring Virginia law enforcement to help carry out ...

I spoke with Markus Schmidt at Virginia Mercury about the positions Spanberger and Winsome Sears have taken on immigration

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The Irony of John Reid – He Just Might Win This Thing August 25, 2025 No, this is not a post about that kind of irony when it comes to the candidate for Lt Gov of Virginia, John Reid. Although it is tempting to explore more deeply how he squares with …

Could Republican John Reid win the Lt Gov race in Virginia this year even as Democrat Spanberger wins?
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Spanberger Leads Sears by Seven Points- This is Bad News for the Democrats August 19 2025 According to the latest statewide poll by Roanoke College, in the race for Governor, Lt Governor, and Attorney General. The GOP has narrowed the lead held by the Democrats. Spanberge…

New poll shows narrowing gap in Virginia statewide races

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Is John McGuire Running for School Board? August 19 2025 Seriously. What. Is. He. Doing? He is a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives. There are only 435 of these folks out of a country with 330 million people.&nbsp…

Have a little dignity
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14 Songs I like This Week. August 15 2025 Playlist · DavidRichards · 14 items · 38 saves

August 15, 2025
1 Paul Weller
2 Lightheaded
3 Nation of Language
4 Church of Trees
5 HalCali
6Tyler, the Creator
7WITCH
8Haute and Freddy
9 Nick Sitz, Revive
10Colin Steele Quartet
11The Chords
12The Blow Monkeys
13James Clarke Five
14Sam Fender and Olivia Dean
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Virginia gubernatorial candidates can't decide on a debate time Both Virginia gubernatorial candidates agreed to a debate, but not the same one.

hot hot take on the No Debate in Virginia (re:source - hey- I go where the people are!)
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Does Sears Need Trump’s Endorsement? August 6 2025 from: Boy, does she ever, and absolutely not.  Both, at the same time. Sears may wish the polls were wrong, but it is pretty clear that she is on track to lose to Abigail Spanber…

Thoughts about why a Trump endorsement for Winsome Sears may not be what she needs at this point... but it also might be what she desperately needs...

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Is Winsome Sears Ok? August 1 2025

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AI-Generated Racist Nonsense and Also Some Winsome Sears Ads July 31 2025 There are some terrible Reels on Facebook right now. Reels, I am proud to report, are short films that Facebook aggressively promotes to compete with TikTok, and YouTube, I assume.  I …

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Marketplace had a story where a woman sold $100 6" cakes out of her home. $100 for a small cake.
$100.
What am I doing with my life even @kairyssdal.bsky.social ?

Recent commentary on the Winsome Sears campaign with Washington Examiner and Mabinty Quarshie @https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3479592/winsome-earle-sears-interview-virginia-governor-race/

Is Lots of Money a Good Thing? Why Money Can’t Buy the Democrats Love July 17 2025 So, two things yesterday- a new poll shows Abigail Spanberger still has a significant lead for the Governor’s race (all three of the statewide Democratic candidates do). GOP spinmeiste…

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14 Songs I like This Week. July 3 2025 Playlist · DavidRichards · 14 items · 38 saves

7/3/25
1Obongjayer
2The Real Tuesday Weld, A Girl Called Eddy
3Elbow
4Sam Fender and Olivia Dean
5The Milk
6White Magic for Lovers
7Teleman
8Hollow Ship
9Freezepop
10Loaded Honey
11Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 and Elan Rhys
12Mocky
13Jazzworx
14Lustrum UVSV/NVVSU
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Live Action/Animated Oswald Series in development July 2 2025 Not exactly political, but Oswald the Luck Rabbit, the cartoon character that really started Walt Disney to success (and unintentionally begat Mickey Mouse) is getting the Disney+ treat…

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14 Songs I like This Week. June 20 2025 Playlist · DavidRichards · 15 items · 38 saves

6/27/25-14 songs I like
1Elbow
2Real Tuesday Weld, A Girl Called Eddy
3Obongjayer
4Lustrum UVSV/NVVSU
5Sam Fender
6Grace Jones
7Teleman
8The Milk
9White Magic for Lovers
10Loaded Honey
11 Freezepop
12Hollow Ship
13Carwyn Ellis&Rio18&Elan Rhys
14Young Gun Silver Fox
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What is Wrong With Virginia Democrats? June 23 2025 Dwayne Yancy, of Cardinal News, pointed out something amazing in his politics email last Friday (if you do not already subscribe to it, sign up here- it’s essential analysis in my book…

there were precincts where NO ONE voted in last week's primary in Virignia, why?
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