October 12, 2006

Campaign 2008 UPDATE

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Mark Warner is NOT running for president? Apparently, the run was vetoed by his wife and daughters (which, if memory serves, was the rationale for Colin Powell not running in 1996).

UPDATE: Confirmed by Larry Sabato, the Dean of Virginia politics himself.

UPDATE: Here's the WaPo piece:

But the biggest challenge, his advisers have said, would have been selling his moderate, bipartisan message to a Democratic primary audience, especially at a time when the party is hungry for partisan success.

The article confirms our earlier sources on family being cited as the reason not to run.

Posted by Steve-O at October 12, 2006 09:31 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Thank God.

Gov. Warner did a fine job - his first year in office.


Posted by: KMR at October 12, 2006 06:45 PM