At the May 17-18 Virginia Republican Party convention, the nomination of Cuccinelli, the Rev. E. W. Jackson for lieutenant governor, and State Senator Mark D. Obenshain for attorney general amounted to a declaration of “no retreat” from conservative orthodoxy, a thumb in the eye of the establishment. “This is the most conservative Republican ticket in the history of Virginia,” Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, told me in a telephone interview.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:16:14 +0000
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