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He’s about 12 pounds, has brown and white fur and wears a red checkered tie. Hank is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Virginia on the platform of job creation. (more)

During an interview at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, Virginia Republican Senate candidate Jamie Radtke told The Daily Caller that she thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal. (more)

Promoting the merits of “small government” may be all the rage for national Republican figures, but in Virginia a GOP politician collecting signatures for a U.S. Senate campaign is proposing something slightly different. (more)

A new poll from Roanoke College in Virginia shows the Senate race in the Old Dominion is in a statistical dead heat. Republican candidate George Allen has a slight 42–39 lead over Democrat Tim Kaine. Nineteen percent are still undecided. (more)

Tim Kaine, former Democratic National Committee chairman and past Virginia governor, told public radio station WAMU Texas Gov. Rick Perry is “far too polarizing” to win the White House. (more)

Former U.S. Sen. George Allen is criticizing likely 2012 election opponent and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine for his failure to take a stand on a hot labor lawsuit which is being closely watched across the country (more)

Now that Anthony Weiner has admitted to sending semi-nude pictures of himself to women online, the blogosphere is buzzing with prognostications that the New York congressman’s political career is over. Former DNC chairman Tim Kaine told a local Virginia TV station that Weiner should resign. WNYC’s Karol Markowicz writes that Weiner has to go. And The Huffington Post quotes two fellow lawmakers and a New York Democratic operative who think that Weiner might be finished. Well, those people are wrong — not about his career being over but about his having one to start with. (more)

Harry S. Truman once  said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” It’s advice that Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner might do well to heed, as he’s rapidly running out of friends on Capitol Hill. (more)

When a videographer asked Virginia Democratic Senate candidate and former Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine how much the United States’ national debt is, he replied: “It’s sizeable.” (more)

Earlier this week, the Democratic National Committee announced Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will take the helm to fill the void left by former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2012. (more)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) will be the next head of Democratic National Committee. (more)

Former Virginia Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine announced Tuesday that he will seek the Senate seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Jim Webb. Kaine was seen by Democrats as the party’s best hope to retain the seat. (more)

Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine told a college class he’s likely to run for a Senate seat next year, a party spokesman said Monday. (more)

A Democratic National Committee spokesman said Monday that DNC Chairman Tim Kaine is “increasingly likely to run” for Senate in Virginia, but added that reports that Kaine announced his campaign to a group of students are premature. (more)

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) launched a new website Tuesday: CheerleaderInChief.com. (more)

Rarely do down-ticket races determine the outcome at the top of the ticket. The 2012 elections could turn this axiom on its head. (more)

The organizing arm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that got President Barack Obama elected, “Organizing for America,” is engaging and actively supporting the union protests in Wisconsin – despite DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s previous stint as governor of a state with employees without collective bargaining rights. (more)

How can an organization that has lost credibility, is $20 million in debt and is plagued by distractions and drama help change America’s direction in 2012? It is time for tough love at the Republican National Committee. Bringing conservative Republican leadership to the presidency, Congress, and the states will require a new direction, new leadership and a new team at the RNC. (more)

After the “shellacking” the Democratic Party took in the 2010 midterm elections, there was some speculation that President Barack Obama could be vulnerable to a primary challenge for his own party’s nomination in 2012. But that doesn’t appear very likely, at least according to Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine. (more)

The Agenda Project, the group behind the “Patriotic Millionaires” campaign to raise taxes on the rich, is going after the Obama administration, leading protests against a White House they believe is “caving” to Republicans on tax cuts. (more)