Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Virginia is still too close to call as precinct results roll in.
Update 10:04 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7 - With all Virginia precincts finally reporting, President Barack Obama received 1,868,191 votes from Virginia voters, according to final but unofficial data from the Virginia State Board of Elections. That's 50.57 percent of the vote. Gov. Mitt Romney received 1,767,692 votes, or 47.85 percent. The three third-party candidates on the ballot received a combined 1.42 percent of votes, and write-in candidates the remainder. The race was too close late Tuesday night, even hours after multiple national news outlets called the race nationally. ------------- Original post, Tuesday, Nov. 6 updated 2 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7 President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, …
Friday, November 2, 2012
Local Latino elected officials and the Center for American Progress Action Fund called on immigrants to vote on Election Day.
Lizzette Arias arrived in Arlington when she was 2 months old. She came with her family, who had immigrated here from Bolivia. They settled into an apartment near an elementary school. "I used to watch out the window, the kids marching out to school. I was not allowed to go to school — for no good reason, I thought," Arias said. "The truth was that my parents were afraid to enroll me because of our immigration status. I asked Santa Claus and prayed to God that one day I would go to school." Arias considers herself lucky to have been able to eventually enroll in the third grade. In 2007, she graduated from Wakefield High School as a valedictorian. She later found a small college in Pennsylvania that accepted her as an undocumented student …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Black talks personal responsibility and limiting the federal government.
With less than a week to go to the presidential election, it's crunch time. "It's not really game preparation at this point. This is more like two minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and we're trying to do everything we can to win," Washington Redskins Offensive Lineman Jordan Black told Patch. "We're in two-minute offense at this point." Black was at the Virginia GOP Victory Office in Ballston, which serves as the headquarters for all of the Republican campaign operations in this state, to help formally launch the Virginia Young Americans for Romney Coalition Wednesday night. "It fires me up to see the youth in the crowd right now. That's really encouraging to see that young conservatives and young Republicans do exist," he told a room …
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Moore stumped for the Obama campaign Saturday during a “Vote Now!” picnic in Ben Brenman Park in Alexandria and later in Arlington.
In a campaign speech for President Barack Obama Saturday, actress Julianne Moore — who said she grew up in the middle class — said she identifies with the 47 percent of Americans Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized for not paying income taxes. Obama "doesn’t perceive, as Mitt Romney does, that there are some members of our society — this 47 percent — who are victims who don’t pull their own weight, even though they pay sales tax, state tax, city tax, property tax, etc.,” Moore told a crowd of Obama supporters. “So, I was really personally incredibly insulted by those comments, especially that this 47 percent believe they’re entitled to health care. “Guess what? I’m one of those 47 percent because I believe we’re all …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Candidates discussed the Middle East, defense and more.
With Election Day fast approaching, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney faced off in the third and final Presidential Debate Monday night. The debate, hosted by Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., focused mainly on foreign policy, including conflicts in the Middle East, the civil war in Syria and the Sept. 11, 2012, killings of four American officials in Libya. Romney congratulated Obama for successfully killing Osama bin Laden, but ultimately questioned his policies on the Middle East, charging that the unrest in Egypt and Libya had created a “rising tide of chaos.” He said America needed an expansive plan to handle the situation. “We can’t kill our way out of this mess,” Romney said. “We’re going to have to put in place a very …
Monday, October 22, 2012
Tell us: In last meeting before the Nov. 6 election, which presidential candidate performed best in Monday's debate?
President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney met Monday night for their third and final debate this election season, this time coming to the same table to answer questions on national security, the war in Iraq and jobs overseas, among other topics. The candidates also sparred on military spending, with Romney making a case for an expanded Naval fleet in a plan to increase military spending. Obama, who says he's met with military leaders to develop a reduced budget for the country's armed forces, said Monday that Romney's hike is money "our military doesn't need," noting the country also has " fewer horses and bayonets." "We have these things called aircraft carriers and planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, …
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Here are details on Monday night's third and final debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney.
The third presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney is set for 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22. The debate is at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. It will focus primarily on foreign policy and international relations. In the first debate, the candidates focused on domestic issues, including the economy and taxes, health care reform and the role of government. The second debate between the candidates was a town hall-style debate, including questions from the audience on the economy, healthcare and more. Broadcasting and Streaming Live AOL will provide a live stream of the debate. It will also air on YouTube's Election Hub. TV Channels Broadcasting Live: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and more. All of the …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The candidates and issues that will be affecting Arlington County in the 2012 election.
As we look ahead to November’s elections, Patch is devoted to bring you the information you need about every race in town. Bookmark this page for updates. To see all of our elections coverage from this year, click on the Elections tab in the blue menu bar above. In Arlington, only these issues and people will be on ballots — presented in order from the most local issues to national candidates. Clicking on the links below will bring you to Patch articles, the candidate’s website or other resources. Voting Info Absentee voting has already started and continues into early November. Information about absentee voting — how, where and whether you qualify — is available here. On Nov. 6, polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Look up your voting …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Presidential candidates met for a town-hall style debate at Hofstra University in New York.
President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney sparred Tuesday night over immigration, the economy, energy production and foreign policy during the second of three Presidential debates before Election Day. The debate, held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, went over the allotted 90-minutes and featured a number of sharp exchanges between the two candidates, who interrupted each other on more than one occasion. Virginia Voters React Delegate Scott Surovell (D-44th) was impressed with Obama’s performance Tuesday night, saying the president was “back” after his more restrained performance during the Denver debate two weeks ago. “Candy Crowley's instant fact checking of Mitt Romney on President Obama's Rose Garden …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tell us: Did President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney perform better at Thursday's debate? Did the debate strengthen or hurt either campaign?
President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney met Tuesday night for their second debate this election season, this time in a "town hall" format that allowed citizens to ask questions on foreign policy, oil and jobs, among other topics. The debate, at Hofstra University in New York, was crucial for both candidates, who are less than a month out from the Nov. 6 election. The candidates' running mates debated last week in Kentucky. Many experts said Vice President Joe Biden came out ahead of Republican candidate Paul Ryan in the meeting. Some said Obama needed to be more aggressive after a performance in the first debate experts dubbed "passive" and "safe." Romney supporters said he needed to maintain the momentum he gained …
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5:13 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Marshall, I have yet to see any post from you that has any real world factual evidence to back up any of your preposterous claims; all we get is some link to the Washingtontimes, some rehash from drudge, some crap scraped from blogs or position papers from some college or think tank hack. Come on man, produce something original worthy of our discussion or go the way of the rest of your dinosaur … more ›