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Governor-elect Bob McDonnell sounded a lot like another Republican governor on Tuesday when speaking with reporters and editors at the Capitol.

The ranking Republicans in the General Assembly have come together to pen a letter to outgoing Gov.

Kaine hasn't squelched speculation about trimming car tax relief costs. We fear it simply wouldn't survive.

Jim Gilmore got elected governor by promising to get rid of Virginia's expensive and wildly unpopular car tax.

Scanning a budget wrecked by recession, ravaged revenues and flawed forecasting, Gov.

Even with hard times assured for public schools and other state-supported ventures, Democratic Gov.

Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell tapped top administration staffers on Thursday, naming a handful of close advisors including Gov.

What a difference a year has made for Virginia's Republican Party. Hailing a turnaround that seemed impossible after a historic 2008 trouncing in a Democratic sweep led by Barack Obama, jubilant Republicans cheered the party's newest star, Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, at their annual winter meeting Saturday.

Members of the Virginia House of Delegates gave a standing ovation to Henry County-Martinsville area textile workers entering the balcony of the House chambers on Feb.

The election of two Republican gubernatorial candidates this week underscores the concern of many U.S. voters about the general direction of the country under the Democratic Party's leadership, a top Republican official said Saturday.

"After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to console themselves that Virginia is at its core a "red" state.

RICHMOND, Va. - Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli has named two former attorneys general and a former state Republican Party chairman to his transition team.

CC: [I recently graduated from] John Tyler Community College, Midlothian campus, with a degree in political science.

As GOP resurgences go, this one comes quick and unequivocal, barely an hour after the polls closed Tuesday night.

Botetourt County Supervisor Terry Austin, a Republican who abandoned the party to run for re-election as an independent, overwhelmingly defeated the challenger the GOP had hoped would unseat him Tuesday.

It's Election Day in only a few places around the country on Tuesday, and Republicans were doing most of the celebrating, riding a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment.

The race for Virginia's next governor is entering into its final hours. As the candidates try to drum up last minute votes, a new poll by Survey USA has McDonnell leading Deeds by 18 points.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** The GOP's two paths : Republicans are set to learn two very contradictory lessons from their likely victories tomorrow in Virginia and NY-23. In Virginia's gubernatorial race, as we've written before, Bob McDonnell has hugged the middle, portraying himself as a bipartisan ...

Republican Bob McDonnell appears poised to win the governorship and lead a GOP sweep Tuesday, ending nearly a decade of reverses for his party, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch Poll.

Politics is a pendulum that swings back and forth, according to Del. Ward Armstrong.