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Are your folks visiting? Need to find a local hotel for your out-of-town clients? Looking for a weekend break from DC? Welcome to The Morrison House in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. From the moment you arrive at the hotel you feel as if you’re at home. General Manager Tobias Arff …

Saturday Night Live’s opening skit lampooned the Famous White House party crashers. We can’t stop watching either.

2 words: Campaign reunions. Christina Bellantoni: Rubbing It In? OFA’s Obama Feed Tweets About Election ’08

Sarah Palin just picked up her rotary phone and cranked out some robocalls in Virginia.  [pretty vague] “Virginia, hello, this is Sarah Palin calling to urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and vote for Sarah’s principles. The eyes of America will be on Virginia and make no mistake …

Virginia Campaign Crush on Craigslist I know you are way busy turning VA red – and that makes you even hotter by the way – but if you manage to get a few free minutes at like 2 am once the campaign work is done, I will totally come by …

of MSNBC’s massive graphics FAIL this morning. Even the ridiculous backwards checkmark on the ballot is overshadowed by… sigh… the fact that, um, you… used the WRONG STATE.  That’s West Virginia.  Which — spoiler alert — is different than Virginia.  And we hate to pile on here, but you kinda …

Terry McAuliffe paid $7M for a chance to be Virginia’s next governor – and has nothing to show for it.  Meanwhile his consultants are pointing the other direction.  [who wants a refund?] The winner of the Democratic primary for VA Gov was a gentleman called Mr. Deeds. State Sen. Creigh …

We started "Please Release Me " to point out zany press releases that show up in our tipster malbox . We’ve seen good, bad, really bad — but also several creative releases. FamousDC applauds the work of Carrie Drummond at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria : THE ALEXANDRIA ANIMAL …

Our good friend Not Larry Sabato, along with The Huffington Post, Fire Dog Lake and the Collegiate Times are teaming up together to host the first ever netroots Gubernatorial debate. We are teaming up for the first ever Gubernatorial debate sponsored by the netroots in history!  Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe …

Is Rep. Eric Cantor’s office blazing a new trail?  Has this ever been done before? Eric Cantor’s office is responding to the AFSCME/UAC ad blitz with a 1970’s-vintage AFCSME public service announcement that’s been redubbed with an Andrew Dice Clay-type voice over touting the union’s accomplishments in “picking up your …

Maybe not entirely… Beth Mazur: 11-f00t wide House listed for $1.125 Million in Arlington, Va.

Never seriously in the running, Warner’s press team spins his Senate run into “Warner takes self out of VP mix.” HAMPTON, Va. (AP) – Former Gov. Mark R. Warner on Saturday removed himself from consideration as a vice presidential running mate for Democrat Barack Obama. Yeah, his press team pulled …

Rep. Tom Davis recently released a memo, [littered with problems] and probably wishes he could have take backs. Calls for concern in his memo: 1. He misspells Barack Obama’s name throughout the entire memo. [Hire a copy editor] 2. For some reason he uses the term “tar baby” while trying …