University of Mary Washington professor and political analyst Stephen Farnsworth told the Free Lance-Star that the race “may be one of the most expensive primary contests for the House this year.”
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Virginia State House Is Up for Grabs on Tuesday (Courthouse News Service)
“A number of potential donors see Democratic legislative majorities in Richmond as a real possibility,” said Stephen Farnsworth, director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
Gov. Northam will convene special session of Virginia legislature to take up gun control (Washington Post)
Republicans are in a risky position, though, because opinion polls have consistently shown that most Virginians favor stricter gun laws, said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. “Failing to respond to that public feeling, particularly in the aftermath of Virginia Beach, would be politically problematic for Republicans,” Farnsworth said. He added that Northam will get credit if the legislature acts, while a lack of results would give Democrats something to blame on Republicans this fall.
Lobbyist Registrations Steadily Rise over the Decade (WVTF)
And Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says there’s another important trend, one happening in the gridlocked halls of Washington. “As Washington descends deeper and deeper into gridlock, the most effective use of your lobbying money may very well be in state capital rather than the national one.”
Cash race is bipartisan in 2019 (InsideNOVA)
Maintaining the 15 seats Democrats flipped from Republicans in the 2017 election will be key if Democrats hope to gain control of the House, said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science and international affairs professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
Farnsworth Presents Presidency Research at Mason Conference
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a research paper, “The Politics of Personality: Framing Presidential Character in the Age of Trump,” at the Conference on Character Assassination in Theory and Practice at George Mason University.
