Tim Kaine

In his Oct. 4 letter to the editor, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) put forward a very selective history in his attack on former Virginia governor Timothy M. Kaine (D). He declared that Mr. Kaine is "most responsible" for our current lack of funding for Virginia's roads because of his amendments to a House bill in 2007. In stating that Mr. Kaine "ruined our best chance" to improve transportation funding, Mr. Cuccinelli failed to acknowledge or fairly represent that 85 of the 100 members of the House of Delegates and 29...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is traveling to Slaughter Pen battlefield in Fredericksburg to promote a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Virginia Democrat is scheduled to promote the proposed amendment Friday with representatives of the Civil War Trust and the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. Kaine is co-sponsoring the bill with Sen. Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican. Kaine says since the program was initiated in 2002,...

The Democratic convention will feature a slate of familiar faces and up-and-comers who will frame the race for the White House as a choice between two economic visions, offering insider views of President Obama making tough decisions, assessments of how his policies have played in swing states and an examination of Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts. The Democratic National Committee is set to release the roster of names early Monday morning, a week before the Republicans kick off their convention in Tampa.

RICHMOND, Va. — Six months after Democrat Terry McAuliffe entered Virginia's gubernatorial race, he's barnstorming statewide with Democratic luminaries in an "official" campaign launch. He also announced a fundraiser a month away with First Lady Michelle Obama. McAuliffe began his five-day blitz Sunday in Norfolk and continued it Monday morning with Sen. Tim Kaine at a Richmond biotechnology research center. He also campaigned Monday in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg,...

Early in their race for U.S. Senate seat, George Allen's campaign made a strategically important decision: to incessantly attack Timothy M. Kaine as a shill for President Obama and his liberal policies. The move was either a savvy way for Allen to undermine the core message of Kaine's candidacy, or a waste of money that fundamentally misread Virginia's political direction. Repeatedly in their grueling 19-month contest, Allen (R) and Kaine (D) made starkly different calculations about the best way to win the seat of...

Although I'm not a Democrat or even Catholic, I enjoyed the article on Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his inner struggles sorting out the conflict between his Catholicism and his commitment as governor to uphold the death-penalty law in Virginia [ "A man of faith and practical politics," front page, Oct. 19 ]. Holding a criminal's case file in your hand, knowing that a real person will live or die depending on which stack you set it down in, has to eat at you regardless of how "law and order" you claim to be. ...

It's not unusual, on an election-year Sunday, to find a white candidate in a black church. But Tim Kaine, swaying this month to the gospel groove at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in a poor Richmond neighborhood, wasn't on the campaign trail. He was taking a break from it at his home parish. "How you doing, brother?" said Peter Thompson, 53, a lean black man in a green fedora, hugging the round-faced Kaine on the church steps. The part-time Pizza Hut cook and the former governor have known each other since Kaine...

When Mitt Romney and George Allen campaign together this Saturday, it will be the first time the Republicans have managed to do so in Virginia this year. Timothy M. Kaine says his support for Barack Obama is unwavering, but the former governor is careful to point out differences he's had with the president, whether on taxes, Libya or offshore drilling. Virginia's U.S. Senate contenders aren't exactly running away from their parties' presidential candidates, but they are leaving enough wiggle room to...

TWO FORMER Virginia governors, Timothy M. Kaine and George Allen, are running for the U.S. Senate seat that Mr. Allen fumbled away six years ago. They are partisan stalwarts who disagree on deficit reduction, energy policy, health care, abortion, the death penalty and much else. The contrast in character and intellect is even more stark. On those grounds, Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, is a better choice by leaps and bounds than Mr. Allen, a Republican. We happen to agree on many issues with Mr. Kaine, who...

RICHMOND — Timothy M. Kaine , chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday that he is "increasingly likely" to run for U.S. Senate, his strongest indication yet that he will enter the marquee race that could pit him against former Republican governor George Allen in 2012. Kaine made the comments to students at a class he teaches once a week at the University of Richmond, which were confirmed by the DNC, while rumors about the remarks swept Twitter on Monday.

IS TERRY MCAULIFFE, the one-time Democratic Party major-domo who was crushed in his party's primary for governor of Virginia four years ago, a better candidate this year than he was in 2009? Maligned then as a brash carpetbagger, Mr. McAuliffe has spent practically every day since his defeat paying dues, making amends and cultivating allies across the state at fish fries, neighborhood meetings and coal mines — more than 2,600 events, by his count. His efforts paid off last week when he was certified as the Democratic...

The Post has once again chided me [" One job too many ," editorial, March 7] for keeping my promise to Virginians that I would serve my full four-year term as state attorney general. The Post reasoned that I should resign because several other Virginia attorneys general resigned when they ran for governor, in line with a "tradition" that has been consistently observed only since 1985. Recently, Politifact Virginia found that no other state in the country has such a tradition of attorneys general resigning to run for some...

When Republicans claim that this was a status quo election, they point to their continued hold on the House . The 2012 congressional vote , some have said, didn't undo the party's 2010 successes. True enough, but that's not because Americans didn't vote to undo them. It's because Republicans have so gerrymandered congressional districts in states where they controlled redistricting the past two years that they were able to elude a popular vote that went the Democrats' way last week.

Early in their race for U.S. Senate seat, George Allen's campaign made a strategically important decision: to incessantly attack Timothy M. Kaine as a shill for President Obama and his liberal policies. The move was either a savvy way for Allen to undermine the core message of Kaine's candidacy, or a waste of money that fundamentally misread Virginia's political direction. Repeatedly in their grueling 19-month contest, Allen (R) and Kaine (D) made starkly different calculations about the best way to win...

Timothy M. Kaine defeated George Allen in Virginia's Senate race Tuesday night, the climax of an intensely watched matchup that cost more than $80 million. Allen (R) conceded the race to Kaine (D) just before 11 p.m. Tuesday. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Kaine had a narrow but clear lead in the nation's most expensive Senate race. The contest for the seat held by retiring Sen. James Webb (D) had been neck-and-neck all along , confirming Virginia's battleground status.

For retiring politicians, nothing says, "That's all, folks," more than Election Day. It's the first time in decades that they're not on the ballot, not obsessively checking exit polls, not waiting for the final call of victory or defeat. "I'm going to take it easy," said Rep. Barney Frank , who's been running for the past 40 years. On Monday, Frank and his husband, J im Ready, spent the night in Maine making calls in support of the state's same-sex...

President Obama's announcement that he supports same-sex marriage puts Timothy M. Kaine — a close friend and political ally — in a delicate position as he runs in a marquee Senate race in a swing state. Kaine, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, is locked in a heated race to replace retiring Sen. James Webb (D), most likely against fellow former Virginia governor George Allen. In a state that is split on the subject — and could be key to Obama's reelection hopes —...

Former Virginia governor Timothy M. Kaine criticized the Obama administration's new policy requiring some religious institutions to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives, a rare instance of disagreement between the Senate candidate and his close political ally. The insurance rule has sparked fierce criticism from religious groups, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, which say the policy will require them to violate their beliefs. Republicans have used the controversy...

RICHMOND — As governor, Republican George Allen reformed welfare, abolished parole and imposed tough standards on schools. He also helped a guy get his driver's license. History may overlook the last of these feats, but Joseph C. Farrell says it's worth noting. In the late 1990s, Farrell was CEO of the Pittston Co., a coal, transportation and security conglomerate that Allen had lured to Richmond from Connecticut. The newly relocated executive went to get a Virginia driver's license but was turned...

Although I'm not a Democrat or even Catholic, I enjoyed the article on Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his inner struggles sorting out the conflict between his Catholicism and his commitment as governor to uphold the death-penalty law in Virginia [ "A man of faith and practical politics," front page, Oct. 19 ]. Holding a criminal's case file in your hand, knowing that a real person will live or die depending on which stack you set it down in, has to eat at you regardless of how "law and order" you claim to be....