Again WV candidates are at the post.  Ry Rivard [Capitol Reporter for Daily Mail] has provided a snapshot of the political races just as the gate opens on these horse races.  Many PhillipsBillBoard readers and political junkies may not see his Charleston Daily Mail...

TAMPA….in the early morning hours of yesterday most WV delegates to the Republican National Convention started for home….fired up about Mitt Romney as the country’s next President….but a little less unified as a State Republican Party than when they arrived. The big...

Many of us will recall when we watched every national political convention development (Democrat and Republican) on television.  With the national conventions just days away if you want to know what is really taking place you had better tune in to social media. An...

A day is a year in politics the old saying goes.   In a post just yesterday I made note that I thought dropping Biden and putting Hillary on the ticket would be a game changer in West Virginia.  Today (thanks to a tip from my friend Tom O’Neill) I learned the Weekly...

It’s a cloudy morning in Elkins so I took a glance at various political newsletters and clipped some of the most interesting.  My thanks to POLITICO, Daily Callers, Fox News, Huff Post & NY Times. THE CAMPAIGN REACHED A NEW LOW YESTERDAY- BIDEN in Danville, Va.:...

Republicans held a state convention in Beckley this weekend…lots of enthusiasm but less than half [215] of the authorized delegates [509] attended…good thing the State Executive Committee [115] met that morning…not sure what this means for the Fall campaign or the...

100 days to sway the undecided…hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent by Obama and Romney on uncommitted voters in a few states…in WV Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney got ahead of the 100 days…he started statewide TV ads last week…fund raising...

Voters regardless of political party always seem to be interested in the real side of candidates.  Campaign 2012 a feature of The Washington Post (not already a favorite of some phillipsbillboard.com readers) provides a good inside look at Governor Romney and his...

The real fallout from the SOTUS ruling yesterday will be political…at least for now.  Many phillipsbillboard.com readers are politically active or more than causal observers of the game.  To provide a feel for the current political fallout I have clipped some pieces...

“ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL” a phrase coined by Tip O’Neill [former U. S. Speaker of the House] is playing out in WV… There is no place more local than Coalton…Saturday was the annual Coalton Days celebration…where 3,000 “locals from across WV” come annually…it a haven for...