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Chris Graham is a 13-year veteran of print and Web media, radio and television.
He has covered two presidents - Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - in addition to conducting numerous one-on-one interviews with former Virginia governors George Allen, Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner, current governor Tim Kaine and a host of other newsmakers in Richmond and on Capitol Hill.
Chris is the owner and editor of The New Dominion and the host of "The Augusta Free Press Show" Internet podcast.
He is the chairman of the Waynesboro Democratic Committee.
He has as well published two books, Stop the Presses, a humor column collection, and Judge Not, a political thriller. He also co-authored with Patrick Hite Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall. That book was released in September 2006.
Chris is a veteran of The News Virginian, a Waynesboro-based daily newspaper, and The Charlottesville-Albemarle Observer and The Shenandoah Valley Observer, both weeklies.
He has won 10 Virginia Press Association awards for his reporting and writing.
SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Virginia not blue yet, Kaine says
Gov. Tim Kaine throws a cautionary hand to the wave of talk about Virginia now being a blue state.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2008 What's wrong with the GOP?
It doesn't seem like the GOP gets it. Republicans are talking about how they lost on Nov. 4 because they didn't stay true to their conservative principles. The truth lies somewhere a lot closer to the center of the political spectrum.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 18, 2008 McCain locks up GOP vote
John McCain used the final TV debate of the '08 campaign season to shore up his leaking conservative base. Which is not the best place to be in for a candidate trailing by double digits in many polls, but that's where McCain is with two weeks and change to go to Nov. 4.
SHARE Thursday, October 16, 2008 What Will Warner Do?
Mark Warner could play an important role in helping Barack Obama win Virginia's 13 electoral votes. The question - will he?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 16, 2008 Who's the real plumber here? Not so fast ...
Turns out that I'm more like Joe the Plumber than I would have originally thought. Like him, my first name isn't Joe, and also like him, I'm not a plumber. And then there's our views on Obama and McCain.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Bogus registration claims a 'smokescreen' for GOP suppression efforts
The mainstream media has been helping the GOP trumpet ACORN smears as a way to sow doubt into Democratic voter-registration efforts. That initiative is a "smokescreen" for their own voter-suppression campaign with a clear goal in mind.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 The Obama Effect
Obama-Biden supporters are worried about how race factors could impact on the outcome of the '08 presidential election. Could the Bradley Effect be a thing of the past?