Today Virginia added three minor party candidates to its presidential ballot, one of which could complicate Mitt Romney’s hopes for the commonwealth.

Roseanne Barr, who is waging a write-in campaign for the Green Party’s nomination for president, is placing robocalls to D.C. voters ahead of tomorrow’s primary election.

Roseanne Barr, the comedienne who is now seeking the Green Party’s nomination for president, did some local retail politicking of a kind last night when she jumped into an otherwise ignorable Twitter fight between member of Occupy D.C. and a young Republican.

Back in the day, people would gather to lobby, write letters and protest for a cause. These days, all it takes is access to a computer and a creative approach to using online tools. And while the fight for District voting rights has involved a good amount of old-school tactics, online activists have more resources at their disposal than ever before. Newly-elected Shadow Representative Mike Panetta has been leading this fight in recent years, employing…

Update: Scratch everything — no voting rights for D.C. this year. We’re a step closer, yet still so far away. As the Post reported today, Utah has played its role in helping the District get a voting seat in the House of Representatives by agreeing to a re-districting plan that would give them one more seat in Congress. Their decision to do so has been the key to pushing the D.C. Fair and Equal House…

The election of Democrat Jim Webb as the junior Senator from Virginia has given political spectators another chance to speculate on what particular shade of indigo the Commonwealth appears to be these days. Webb’s victory was hardly a blowout, but considered alongside the last two gubernatorial campaigns and the swelling population and influence of Northern Virginia, it’s not hard to imagine that Virginia’s statewide tendencies are only going to get bluer. Virginia hasn’t become Massachusetts…

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq’s and vacations to holidays and the realization that ’06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it’s beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They…

It goes without saying — the District is a town full of Democrats. They occupy the majority of the elected offices, have the most registered voters by a long shot, and reliably vote for Democratic presidential candidates. In the most recent analysis of the voter registry, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics reported that 73.5 percent of registered voters were Democrats. Republicans could only claim 8 percent, the Statehood Green Party 1.6 percent, and…

When it comes to fighting for District voting rights, activists face two main challengers — the U.S. Congress and themselves. Members of Congress just either don’t care much about whether or not the District’s 600,000 residents have voting representation, or believe its a constitutional mandate written in stone that they shouldn’t. They can be swayed. But many District-based voting right activists differ sharply on what the best approach to gaining voting rights is — some…

Ok, so we didn’t win the Powerball drawing. At least not anything big. That $4 prize for matching two numbers isn’t really consolation enough for the $40 dropped on tickets. But it was a busy week in the world of DCist, million dollar jackpot or not. This week, Bed Bath & Beyond in Gallery Place was visited by D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, we braved the snow to see Supergrass and Pilotdrift at 9:30, Butterstick…