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Obama To Hold Final Campaign Rally At Prince William Fairgrounds

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, November 2nd, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, 2008 General Election In Virginia, Barack Obama, Politics, Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

The question has been answered.
The final rally of Barack Obama’s campaign for President will be held Monday night at the Prince William County Fairgrounds:
Barack Obama will hold his final campaign rally at the Prince William Fairgrounds in the Manassas area Monday night.
The event will begin at 9 p.m., with gates opening at 5 p.m. Organizers [...]

Obama To Hold Final Campaign Rally In Prince William County

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 31st, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, 2008 General Election In Virginia, Barack Obama, Politics, Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Remember what I said yesterday about Prince William County being Ground Zero in the battle for Virginia ?

Well, the Obama campaign must agree, because they’ll be here Monday night for their final rally of the campaign:
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama announced tonight his final event of the campaign will take place Monday evening in Northern [...]

Just So It Doesn’t Run Through My Living Room

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 30th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, 2008 General Election In Virginia, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher searches for the border between Northern Virginia and what the McCain Campaign has called “real” Virginia:
That elusive line is out here somewhere, and I’m asking people to help me find the border between red and blue, between “real Virginia” and, well, what — fake Virginia?
“I call it New York South,” [...]

The Key To Virginia In 2008

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 30th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, 2008 General Election In Virginia, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Time Magazine calls Prince William County the key to the Presidential race in the Old Dominion:
Virginia has become a make-or-break state for McCain, and Prince William County is its red-hot center. The site of the first and second battles of Bull Run more than 140 years ago, it now marks a new Mason-Dixon Line on [...]

A Real Estate Boom In Prince William County

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 17th, 2008. Filed under Economics, Prince William County, Real Estate, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, Virginia

Thanks largely to a glut of foreclosure properties still sitting on the market, Prince William County is experiencing a real estate boom:
Freewheeling American capitalism may be falling out of fashion on Wall Street, but in the western suburbs of Northern Virginia, it is driving one of the greatest home-buying sprees the region has ever seen.
The [...]

Just What Was Jeff Frederick Thinking ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, October 12th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, 2008 General Election In Virginia, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

A new Time article about the state of the Presidential election in Virginia is getting a lot of play in the blogosphere, thanks largely to something RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick is quoted as saying:
No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Virginia since 1964, and most election years both campaigns pretty much ignore the state. This time, [...]

Congratulations (Again) Judge Millette

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, August 28th, 2008. Filed under Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Less than a year after being appointed to the Virginia Court of Appeals, former Prince William County Circuit Court Judge LeRoy Millette has been tapped for the Virginia Supreme Court:
The judge who presided over one of the Washington area sniper trials will now be making decisions that affect people throughout Northern Virginia.
Virginia Court of Appeals [...]

From Our Stupid Government Files

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, July 9th, 2008. Filed under In The News, Prince William County, Virginia

Apparently, things are going so well in Prince William County right now that the government has time to worry about color schemes at gas stations:
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William County doesn’t like the color scheme on a Woodbridge gas station and has ordered the owner to replace its signs.
The owner spent $32,000 on new signs [...]

Gee, Thanks A Lot Barack

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics, Prince William County

Any of you coming home from work via, or near, the I-66 corridor or have family members who are ?
Well, you’re pretty much screwed this afternoon:
Commuters heading west on Interstate 66 should plan for a long drive home. A rally in support of Sen. Barack Obama is being held at the Nissan Pavilion at 6 [...]

Memo To The United Nations From This Resident Of Prince William County, Virginia: Drop Dead

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008. Filed under Dumbasses, Immigration, Prince William County, Virginia

As I’ve stated here on many occasions, I’ve got several problems with the illegal immigration policies that the Prince William County Board of Supervisors have passed over the past year or so, but there’s no way in the world that I, or any resident of Prince William County, should stand for this nonsense:
The United Nations [...]

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