By Bob Gibson
Daily Progress political blogger
Gov. Tim Kaine, who last month stumped across parts of frozen Iowa for presidential candidate Barack Obama, is getting warmer duty on the trail for Obama on Saturday in South Carolina before hitting the Iowa freezer again Sunday.
Kaine will travel to South Carolina and Iowa this weekend, making stops Saturday in Columbia, Camden, and Lancaster, S.C. Those are places I’ve mostly heard of.
On Sunday, Kaine goes back to Iowa and is scheduled to appear at Obama campaign events in Clinton, Maquoketa, Anamosa, Manchester, and Dubuque. I’ve heard of Clinton and Dubuque.
Kaine’s endorsement was more than a warm word or two for Obama, who may do very well in the Virginia Democratic presidential primary on Feb. 12.
Obama, who picked up Rep. Bobby Scott’s endorsement Wednesday, was selected today as the top name on the six-candidate Democratic primary ballot. The second name will be that of Dennis Kucinich, who will be followed in ballot order by Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and John Edwards.
Ron Paul won the draw for the first name on the GOP presidential primary ballot, followed by John McCain, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
Being listed first on the ballot usually is worth something, so the luck of the draw is probably good luck for both Obama and Paul.
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Posted by ( Bob Gibson in Charlottesville ) on December 28, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Ron Paul gets his blimp up
By Bob Gibson
Daily Progress political blogger
The size of a small whale, Ron Paul’s Charlottesville blimp has been lighting the night skies along Rio Road and, as of Friday, Dec. 28, Fontaine Avenue.
The white blimp—asking who the heck Ron Paul is—was trucked from its home base on East Rio Road late today to its new home in the sky near the Interstate 64 intersection with U.S. 29 just south of Fontaine Avenue.
The lighted blimp adds a new dimension to the surging Paul effort and appears not to be floated on hot air, but that other Washington staple—a shot of noble gas.
The GOP’s Paul, a Texas congressman and libertarian, is the first of 12 presidential candidates on the Feb. 12 Virginia primary ballots, six in each party, to get his blimp floating over the outskirts of the liberal enclave of Charlottesville.
Can the Barack blimp and Hillary dirigible be far behind?
Has anyone seen a Rudy zeppelin?
For a town that never had a Bush balloon, the Paul blimp is nearly as good as a second moon.
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