Virginia profile rises in presidential contest
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Move over, Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year’s race for the White House.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Move over, Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year’s race for the White House.
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Michigan and powered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation.

COLUMBUS — Rick Santorum stole a key endorsement from chief rival Mitt Romney on Friday as polls in Ohio and elsewhere suggest the former Pennsylvania senator has seized the momentum in the rollercoaster Republican presidential contest.
Should the use of a crude phrase to describe Governor John Kasich’s stance on gun control disqualify a Republican party member from being appointed to office in Delaware County? Ken Hanson doesn’t think so, but thinks that’s happening. He wrote the phrase “Fast forward to late October, when the race is in a statistical dead […]