Here are a few Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 25.
*NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 49, Romney 43
*America’s silence on gun violence
*Romney Adviser Says Obama Doesn’t ‘Fully Appreciate’ Our ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ (What. The. F***?!?!?)
*If the GOP’s voter suppression works (“A Romney presidency would be illegitimate.”)
*Editorial: Choose certainty with a health exchange (“State lawmakers should resume work on a web portal that would allow workers to shop for insurance.”)
*Forbes calls on DoD to reverse gay pride parade exception
*Loudoun’s Herring to run for attorney general
*Democrats, NAACP opposes Hanover’s request to end federal election oversight
*Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains (Huh?)
*Bob McDonnell to campaign for Romney in Iowa
*In Va., dogs and the dead are invited to vote (Stupid, but now we get to hear Republicans wailing about almost completely mythical “voter fraud” again. Blech.)
*Complaints say Thomas Jefferson High School stacks deck against whites – and blacks and Latinos
*Despite fraud, Air Force continued to use Va. Beach contractor
*Helicopter noise rattling Virginia neighborhoods
*Nationals’ Gio Gonzalez stifles Mets
to match R.A. Dickey with 13 wins