The large pool of contenders for Virginia’s second-highest office is diverse — and skews towards the commonwealth’s northern counties.

Last year, moving a Confederate Monument from the Loudoun County Courthouse lawn was impossible. This year it’s inevitable. What changed?

Still, they had an outsize voice: 1,059 D.C. Republicans voters netted 10 delegates for Rubio. Compare that to the 159,802 Alabamans who voted for Rubio and earned him one delegate.

The Washington Post’s editorial board jumped into the electoral fray early, endorsing Patrick Mara with just over a month left until the April 23 special election for an At-Large seat on the D.C. Council.

Patrick Mara, a Republican who has run for citywide office multiple times before, is getting into the race for the special election next year for an At-Large D.C. Council seat.

Talk about crossing the aisle. This photograph, captured last August during the Columbia Heights Day festival at Harriet Tubman Elementary School, features recently announced At-Large Council candidates Patrick Mara, a Republican, and Bryan Weaver, a Democrat, posing after competing in the event’s cupcake eating contest.

After it was determined that he won the Republican nomination for mayor early this morning, everyone was wondering about Mayor Adrian Fenty’s chances of running on the GOP ticket, whether he’d fare any better a second time around and what it might say about our city. Well, so much for that speculation: the Board of Elections and Ethics now says that Fenty couldn’t accept the Republican nomination even if he wanted to, since he was…

When in the closing days of 2006 we looked back on the year in D.C. voting rights, we optimistically hoped that 2007 would finally be the year that saw some movement on enfranchising the District’s residents. Movement, yes; resolution, not so much. So as we wind down 2007, we’re again left hoping that maybe the coming year will be the one. The primary mover in the D.C. voting rights movement in 2007 was legislation…

Welcome back, Washington. We hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a holly and/or jolly one, and that your stock of material possessions has been satisfactorily increased. As you might expect, not too terribly much happened while you’ve been away. Davis Mulls Eighth Term: Sure, it was published yesterday, but we imagine many of you may have missed the Post’s analysis of whether Tom Davis will seek another term as congressman for Northern…

Good morning, Washington. It turns out that House Pages don’t need lecherous congressmen’s help to make scandalous headlines: two have just gotten busted for inappropriate behavior in a House elevator. They’ve been dismissed, bringing the year’s total fired pages to five — two others were caught shoplifting, and one was booted for fighting. Needless to say, it looks like the program — the oversight of which has been in turmoil — will be getting…