Some favorites from the article:
On many issues, Drake is among the most doctrinaire conservatives in Congress, according to multiple measures from multiple sources. She is also among the least powerful, according to congress.org and Roll Call, Capitol Hill's newspaper.
Nye's models for an effective member of Congress are Republican Bill Whitehurst and Democrat Owen Pickett, two of this region's most reasonable, open-minded legislators. Drake's supporters include Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.
Glenn Nye [is] a Norfolk native of considerable promise, with a deep understanding of foreign policy, clear differences with his opponent and the poise to express them.
In the campaign, Drake has been scrambling back to the middle where the electorate lives. Hers has been an unconvincing journey, particularly when so many of her political moves have been measured and dictated by the White House, even as it rode the nation into a ditch.For four years now, the congresswoman's hand was on the wheel, as surely as the president's, and she must be held accountable. After so many consistently wrong turns over so many years, it's unrealistic to expect Drake will help steer us out.
In this election, quite simply, Nye's potential is a better bet than Drake's performance.
His bipartisan instincts, his public spirit, his experience in the world argue that the 2nd District would be better served by sending him to Washington as her replacement behind the wheel.
Way to go, Glenn!
The Pilot editors should save this paragraph for a generic endorsement against any incumbent Republican House of Delegates candidate next year:
In the campaign, [insert incumbent's name] has been scrambling back to the middle where the electorate lives. Hers [his] has been an unconvincing journey, particularly when so many of her [his] political moves have been measured and dictated by the [Speaker Bill Howell], even as [he] rode the [Commonwealth] into a ditch.
The times they are a-changin'