How a political smear went viral
Compiled by VTdigger.org, via Internet search-engine Google, here is a representative sample of the war of words that coursed through Vermont’s political bloodstream from early-March to the Nov. 2 election, in print, press releases, the Internet and over the airwaves.
Manheimer: Woah! Did I Really Just Elect Vermont’s Next Governor?
Sure. I wish AnyoneButDubie didn’t have to exist. And I wish butterflies would land on my face each morning and wake me with the flutter of their wings.But there needs to be a level playing field, and once Vermont’s Lt. Gov., Brian Dubie, hired Harris Media in Austin, Texas — a communications firm that specializes in attacking Democrats with emotionally charged, incendiary ads — he set the bar pretty low.
Story + video: Vermont governor’s race too close to call
As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, WCAX reported the vote count: Shumlin, 114,097 votes; Dubie, 110,543, with 95.6 percent of precincts reporting.
Dooley: Biden’s exhortations are an inspiration
According to “Joe,” Democrats in control in Washington means moving forward with the Obama policies of creating jobs, building a future that has as its foundation sustainable energy, reforming the financial system, fine-tuning the health care law, and education reform. If the Republicans win, we are back to the failed policies of George W. Bush, he says.
Digger Tidbits: Nose to nose on the numbers game; The hearsay department; How do I sue thee (let me count the ways)
Graff: “There is still a high level of uncertainty. I am continually amazed at news articles in which people … are uncertain about who they will support.”
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Rasmussen: Shumlin draws 50 percent; Dubie 45 percent in poll
The latest numbers move this race from a Toss-Up to Leans Democrat.
Dubie campaign rolls through Barre three days to election
Echoing many of the familiar refrains heard in recent weeks, Brian Dubie told an audience of roughly 75 supporters in Barre’s City Hall Park that jobs and honesty were the two key points of his campaign.
In Profile: Will Dubie’s “decent fellow” reputation come through?
Dubie’s aw-shucks street cred in the Statehouse appears to be well-deserved, and that in part explains the visceral reaction many pols have had to his aggressively negative campaign tactics.
Rutland Herald, Times Argus endorse Dubie
John Mitchell: “Is it in Vermont’s best interest to grant what is in effect a blank political check to a Democratic governor, with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House? The danger we run is that the legislative compromises we will end up with will be tilted far to one end of the political spectrum.”
