Virginia News Headlines: Wednesday Morning

by: lowkell

Wed Oct 03, 2012 at 06:58:34 AM EDT

*The Zinger candidate ("From Romney, it's sugary platitudes, not protein")
*The '99 percent' debate ("Questions that actually concern Americans.")
*Romney under pressure to score debate win against Obama
*First debate may be Romney's last chance to overtake Obama
*Judge blocks Pa. voter ID law
*Poll: Obama opens up 8-point lead in swing-state Virginia (It would be great if this were true, but I simply don't trust Roanoke College's polling. If you look at the "internals" of its previous Virginia polls and this one, they're basically all over the place, for no apparent reason. I'm amazed so many media outlets pick up this poll's results, whether it shows Republicans or Democrats leading.)
*NBC/WSJ poll: Obama holds lead in Ohio; statistical tie in Va., Fla. (Hmmmmm...is the post-convention "bounce" fading a bit in Virginia?)
*Ryan lands in Charlottesville, to begin debate prep (Are they going to coach him on how to lie effectively or what?)
*Kaine buys another $3 million in ad space for Va. Senate race
*Allen says state must pay more for Dulles Rail (And that money's going to come from...???)
*Environmentalists critical of McDonnell energy confab (And rightly so, this thing is a dirty energy bought-and-paid-for charade.)
*Fairfax works to minimize potential voting chaos ("Nearly one-third of active voters in Fairfax County - Virginia's most populous jurisdiction and a crucial battleground in the Old Dominion - might not be able to vote or could end up going to the wrong polling place on Election Day, according to the county's Office of Elections")
*Schapiro: If you can't beat Cantor, then beat him up ("Wayne Powell's campaign against Republican Eric Cantor isn't about beating the second most-powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives.")
*Powell says Cantor is the problem; Cantor says Powell isn't the solution
*Virginia pro-gun group targets Cantor (This has got to be a joke, right?)
*McWaters says 'no' to governor run, undecided on LG
*Bolling shifts into '13 campaign mode online (Shift all he wants, Crazy Kookinelli's going to kick his butt among the Teapublican activists.)